tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47168213797883765632023-06-20T21:10:28.806-07:00que pasaCarolinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09370245250835273151noreply@blogger.comBlogger175125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4716821379788376563.post-55345875258908506692015-12-09T14:52:00.000-08:002015-12-09T14:52:00.128-08:00WHO CARES WHO DOES THE KILLING? IT'S ALL MURDER<br />
And now one reads about the totally bonkers Mr. Dear (ayiyi!) who killed people at a Planned Parenthood clinic the other day. We certainly do not need Islamic terrorists to terrorize. Our own white christian fuck-ups can kill innocent human beings without any problems. How dare Trump talk about banning Muslims when he and his Repugs have been egging these people on for years. "Body parts... babies..." that's what Dear talks about. Is that any less crazy than the people who cut heads off. I hope the Repugs are happy with the audience they've created. No help for the mentally ill, and no decent education for anyone. Their followers and their boisterous cheers are clearly traitors themselves, and that's what they've been groomed for by the Repugs.<br />Carolinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09370245250835273151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4716821379788376563.post-47924390423391426552015-12-04T08:16:00.001-08:002015-12-04T08:16:27.916-08:00MASS SHOOTING IN SAN BERNADINO<br />
I hope these congresspeople are satisfied. Fourteen dead (probably all Democrats) at a mass shooting inspired, apparently, by ISIS. And yet, no one seems quite to understand that, although it was not done under an express order from the Caliphate, ISIS did tell people to just do it--rain death and destruction in the US, while guns were still available without background checks, on-line and at gun shows. "What are you waiting for," apparently they said. What total idiocy, and beyond idiocy into treason, it seems to me, for the Congress to do NOTHING in the face of such messages, let alone the many many unbearably many mass shootings that occur in the US. So shall we say the NRA is personally responsible for all these deaths. I think we say the entire US Congress also bears responsibility, big-time.Carolinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09370245250835273151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4716821379788376563.post-65531541184402379742015-10-19T13:08:00.002-07:002015-10-19T13:08:23.605-07:00DO THEY KNOW HILLARY ENDED "WELFARE AS WE KNOW IT"? (OR AT LEAST SUPPORTED HER HUSBAND'S ENDING IT)<br />
<br />
Do they know that no one can be on welfare any more than five years total now--whether they or their children are sick, disabled or anything else? Do they realize there are no jobs for a lot of people? That is just since Bill Clinton was president, and Hillary was his first lady.Carolinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09370245250835273151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4716821379788376563.post-6200004636915977472015-09-23T19:12:00.002-07:002015-09-23T19:12:26.602-07:00Is it so important that the Jewish people survive? Even at the expense of the Palestinian people? I don't think so. (David Gregory being interviewed by the Atlantic; he I guess does think so.)Carolinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09370245250835273151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4716821379788376563.post-25006206014810330862015-09-11T08:49:00.001-07:002015-09-11T08:49:28.609-07:00AIPAC Defeated!<br />
Finally, some senators remembered they were Americans first; then Jews. The Iran Deal, supported by nearly all Democratic senators, survived. Take that, Chuck Schumer! I think the only way HE can redeem himself, morally and politically, is to vote in favor of Palestinians whenever the subject of occupation or of Gaza comes up. He could lead the fight to diminish our aid to Israel, for example. Now that would be very fine.Carolinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09370245250835273151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4716821379788376563.post-80432680917791896742015-07-30T20:00:00.001-07:002015-07-30T20:00:03.797-07:00<strong>"NOW Calls for Overhaul of Criminal Justice System in Light of Police Brutality Crisis," is the head of a press release I received by email today.</strong><br />
<strong>At last, NOW is doing something that I consider radical today and not some leftover from yesterday. With the police totally out of control all across the country, citizens must speak out against them. And it's a help to have NOW, which up to now (no pun intended) has been the whitest, middle-classest organization of our time, urging change in this epidemic of police killings.</strong><br />
<strong>NOW also said, </strong><br />
"What can
be said about the state of our criminal justice system when, in the past
two weeks alone, five women of color have been found dead inside
correctional facilities?<br />
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
<b>Raynetta Turner</b>, 43 years old. Arrested in Mt. Vernon, NY for shoplifting. Found dead in her cell within 48 hours after being arrested.</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
<b>Kindra Chapman</b>, 18 years old. Arrested in Homewood, AL for stealing a cell phone. Committed suicide within 24-48 hours after being locked up.</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
<b>Joyce Curnell</b>,
50 years old. Arrested in North Charleston, SC on a bench warrant for
shoplifting. Found dead in her cell within 24-48 hours of being locked
up.</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
<b>Ralkina Jones</b>,
44 years old. Arrested in Cleveland, OH for assaulting her ex-husband
and his car with a tire iron. Found dead in her cell 2 days after her
arrest.</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
<b>Sandra Bland</b>,
28 years old. Pulled over in Waller County, TX for making a lane change
without signaling. Found dead in her cell 3 days later."</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
I don't think we even knew about most of these other women. I'd like to know why the man who stopped Sandra Bland is not in jail, though. But the worst of it is that even when these people are charged with murder, as they must be, they are never convicted. That has to change. There must be a nationwide re-education (what am I smoking?) about how the police are our servants; we pay their salaries; they follow our laws and they don't fucking step out of line.</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
As NOW says, "<span align="left" style="text-align: left;">Our criminal justice system
is in crisis. Police officers are seemingly trained as if they are a
military occupying force and believe that Black and brown people are all
presumptively dangerous insurgents. They are also, seemingly, trained
to believe that their personal safety is threatened whenever a Black or
brown person fails to be utterly compliant and utterly submissive to an
officer’s every command, however whimsical (like instructing Sandra
Bland to put out her cigarette on pain of being tasered)." </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
<span align="left" style="text-align: left;">I would add that they now seem quite emboldened with white people too, from what I've heard, although I don't live in that country anymore. THIS MUST CHANGE. </span> </div>
<br />Carolinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09370245250835273151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4716821379788376563.post-74065129275089351172015-07-23T20:47:00.001-07:002015-07-23T20:48:59.066-07:00The police just have to be stopped. They seem to kill another Black person every day. I suppose they've always done it and we just haven't known until now. And it seems as if it's the police all over the country--New York City (Staten Island), Missouri, Ohio, Texas--doing it, and they get away with it everywhere. What is this? Changing lanes without the right signal lands a woman in jail for three days and she ends up killing herself (if she did). Come on! This is intolerable. I've changed lanes without signaling hundreds of times plus, look at the video and you see what was happening. Also, I cannot bear hearing people like Dan Lemon (if that's his name) on CNN saying you must obey what cops tell you to do--please do we live in a democracy or not? I don't believe you can't talk back to public servants (which the police are) without being killed. Weren't we all taught, We pay their salaries? I was. This is effing outrageous. Something must be done, and if it requires shutting down the whole system, so be it. Yes, Black Lives Matter. And they better matter to everyone or it's the end of everything the U.S. has ever stood for (well, since the Civil War). The meaning of Democracy--every human being deserves respect, decency, a vote and someone decent to vote for! Bernie Bernie Bernie! (Does everyone know he endorsed Jesse Jackson in Vermont's presidential primary in the 80s?)Carolinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09370245250835273151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4716821379788376563.post-45174395952417148212015-06-17T06:53:00.000-07:002015-06-17T06:54:15.056-07:00Today's story about ISIS or ISIL or whatever in the Times covers how this organization now provides services in the areas it controls and thus captures the allegiance of residents (because it provides services that pre-exising governments could not seem to manage). So, how about spending the same amount as we waste on the military to provide services people need? Give up destruction and murder and simply help people on the ground with sewage, water supplies, and the like. There's so much we could do, and we could do it without hurting women's rights, unlike ISIS. As it is, we lay waste our powers and theirs, simply destroying and killing, with nothing to show for our billions but devastation.Carolinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09370245250835273151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4716821379788376563.post-29978419695565848642015-06-08T08:02:00.000-07:002015-06-08T08:02:00.027-07:00Doesn't anyone understand that the poor, in order to have bank accounts at all, need to have more money. Banksters--it's the only way. They must have higher incomes!Carolinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09370245250835273151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4716821379788376563.post-67535338319597518752015-03-25T09:45:00.003-07:002015-03-25T09:45:37.039-07:00Just realized "mansplaining" is just a new way of saying, "'Shut up,' he explained." So Ring Lardner was way ahead of the game when he wrote the latter.Carolinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09370245250835273151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4716821379788376563.post-46761972433855079062015-01-08T06:56:00.000-08:002015-01-08T06:56:26.213-08:00The New York Times is a whited sepulcherWhy hasn't the Times printed the cartoons about Mohammed that Charlie Hebdo's staff was killed for? The Guardian managed to do it, yesterday. Apparently the Times can editorialize on the subject and write about it, but is unable to print the cartoons. Who has been cowed into submission here? The Grey Lady, obviously. And an abject sight it is.Carolinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09370245250835273151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4716821379788376563.post-60882883678058592602014-11-10T06:11:00.001-08:002014-11-10T06:11:08.427-08:00So absurdSpare me, please, the columns about personal experiences of aging that begin, "I've just turned fifty." Turn at least 75, Frank Bruni, before you attempt to qualify to talk about the last part of life. (This refers to his column yesterday in The Times.)<br />
<br />
While my son tells me that 85 is what you have to attain before you're "really old," I believe that only accounts for the extraordinary among us. I noticed old age when I reached 75 and obviously some of us, like Frank Bruni, notice it way earlier.<br />
<br />
It's not that I can't still get around and enjoy myself, it's more like what John Cleese said on the Jon Stewart show, "I don't care anymore".<br />
<br />Carolinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09370245250835273151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4716821379788376563.post-41847671607414372952014-11-05T14:49:00.004-08:002014-11-05T14:49:24.953-08:00Thoughts for a Not-So-Sunshiney Morning<br />
Remember: "Behind the carefully maintained façade of “gridlock,” the two parties work in lockstep to implement the ruling class’s agenda of war, austerity and the gutting of democratic rights." (The quote is from the World Socialist Web Site.)<br />
<br />
So don't worry. It's just business as usual.Carolinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09370245250835273151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4716821379788376563.post-52981621259746469532014-10-27T13:50:00.002-07:002014-10-27T13:50:51.810-07:00McDonald's Denmark spokesperson: “We don’t want there to be a big difference between the richest and
poorest, because poor people would just get really poor,” Mr. Drescher
added. “We don’t want people living on the streets. If that happens, we
consider that we as a society have failed.”<br />
<br />
In Denmark, McDonald's employees earn $20 an hour; their cost of living is higher, but not by THAT much. Carolinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09370245250835273151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4716821379788376563.post-29143162632414204602014-10-22T10:40:00.004-07:002014-10-22T10:40:35.621-07:00Somehow it has just come to my attention that Michael Brown was killed for WALKING DOWN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET (not on the sidewalk). Is that possible? Jesus.Carolinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09370245250835273151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4716821379788376563.post-55119055081833834342014-10-02T16:48:00.001-07:002014-10-02T16:48:15.273-07:00LETTER TO THE TIMES:<br />
Your pages are full of Ebola coverage, but to my mind, you're not
covering the real question: given our much-vaunted healthcare system,
how is it possible that this hospital in Dallas sent the Ebola patient
home, even after he told them he'd just come from West Africa? It
boggles the mind, and also recalls Rick Perry's lapse in the
presidential debates, except the hospital only had to remember ONE
thing: West Africa is where there's an Ebola epidemic. Oh maybe a second
thing, too: Ebola is a grave, contagious illness that can kill people,
innocent people. Is this an example of how our splendid health system
works?<br />
<br />
<br />
Maybe, just maybe we need to stop spending money on war and spend it on education and other human services. If ANYONE in that hospital knew the prospective patient had just come from West Africa and didn't know that he should stay in the hospital, under quarantine, there's something very very wrong with that hospital, our system, the entire country.<br />
Carolinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09370245250835273151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4716821379788376563.post-76224057477114380722014-09-26T13:35:00.000-07:002014-09-26T13:35:07.010-07:00Here's an extremely important comment on a touching story in the Times today about a woman trying to save her dying father (it's from MGdoc of Oklahoma City):<br />
<br />
<br />
There's an extremely strong cognitive disconnect running through this
story that the writer, Mr Andrey's daughter and most of the comments
fail to realize. Mr. Andrey was ALWAYS dying. 90 year old Alzheimers
patients falling from weakness and unable to care for themselves are
terminally ill. No amount of physical therapy, rehab, nursing home care
etc could change that. For this sort of patient, nursing homes are just
warehouses holding them until they complete the dying process. While
the bedsores, malnutrition etc alleged in the article are horrifying,
repeatedly taking a terminally ill patient to the hospital, repeatedly
treating sepsis, having emergency surgery for somebody who is about to
die despite surgery is a CHOICE. Both the patient and his daughter
wanted him to keep on living, but weren't willing to accept the
consequences of that decision. Mr. Andrey could have gone home, and
stayed home, and died at home. Instead, he kept going back to the
hospital, over and over. THAT's the real tragedy here; that he was
dying and a slow agonizing death was chosen instead of realizing that
death was inevitable and that death at home, without medical
intervention was an acceptable alternative.Carolinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09370245250835273151noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4716821379788376563.post-83926947432026655692014-09-25T08:43:00.001-07:002014-09-25T08:43:48.535-07:00My response to a friend who sent me a blog that featured a letter by a learned Middle East scholar who seems to like Israel, or at least writes a screed (it seems to me based on nothing but pilpul) in its favor (and against using the words apartheid or nazi in speaking about the country of Israel): <br />
<br />
I'm afraid I can't quite read all of this letter, viewing it, as I do,
as Israeli propaganda. I too deplore the loose use of the term Nazi, but
one cannot blame the world for seeing certain parallels in feeling
tone, if not in detail. I am pretty much convinced at this point, that
Jews should NOT have a country, and why wouldn't I be, since I've been
brought up to believe in the SEPARATION of church and state, as we all
have. In fact, I guess you could say that all this is just one more last
lingering horrible effect of the Holocaust--making the Jews fulfill the
worst thoughts of the ant-Semites. Carolinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09370245250835273151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4716821379788376563.post-49443778368270002152014-09-25T08:39:00.001-07:002014-09-25T08:39:19.840-07:00The Times has one of those seemingly benign editorials about not giving the death penalty to "the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks." A commenter referred to this man as a "mass murderer." I commented:<br />
"But is he a mass murderer? As far as I can tell, this man has not been
convicted of anything. And isn't a guilty verdict the only way we'll
ever know, according to our system? It seems to me that even if our
torturers were prosecuted (an essential move if we are ever to regain
our self-respect), this man's trial is hopelessly compromised if he was
treated in the cruel, heartless way you describe."<br />
<br />
Got 24 recommendations!! Carolinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09370245250835273151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4716821379788376563.post-7342153232706770922014-09-23T15:24:00.002-07:002014-09-23T15:24:23.808-07:00This:<br />
http://peoplesworld.org/dead-child-walking-a-cry-from-the-heart/<br />
<br />
says it better than I could. They never mention that it's our children we're sending to these absurd wars. Carolinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09370245250835273151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4716821379788376563.post-66374510560007653432014-09-20T16:28:00.002-07:002014-09-20T16:28:53.512-07:00Nobody ever mentions that our new war will kill actual people, just as dead as James Foley even if they're not actually beheaded. Could someone just mention that? Even if it's just our troops, which it won't be, why send our young people far away to be killed? Because you know that will happen.Carolinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09370245250835273151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4716821379788376563.post-50496964366515511292014-09-20T16:21:00.003-07:002014-09-20T16:21:45.690-07:00From Digby's blog, Hullabaloo, about the working poor and how some sneer at them and call them lazy:<br />
This discussion always reminds me of Jack London's description of what
happens psychologically to people who work at low paying hard labor jobs
in his book <i><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1056/pg1056.txt">Martin Eden.</a></i>
Martin is an ex-sailor and budding writer who takes a job working in a
hotel laundry to make money so that he can ask his girl to marry him. He
thinks it's a good deal --- 12 hour days leaving plenty of time in the
evening for writing and reading. And one day off a week. It doesn't
work out that way. The work is brutal ... and tiring. And it does
something destructive to the spirit.<br />
<br />
This picks up the story of his laundry work a week into it after he's
discovered that he's too tired to do anything but sleep and work:<br />
<br />
<b>All Martin's consciousness was concentrated in the work. Ceaselessly
active, head and hand, an intelligent machine, all that constituted him
a man was devoted to furnishing that intelligence. There was no room
in his brain for the universe and its mighty problems. All the broad
and spacious corridors of his mind were closed and hermetically sealed.
The echoing chamber of his soul was a narrow room, a conning tower,
whence were directed his arm and shoulder muscles, his ten nimble
fingers, and the swift-moving iron along its steaming path in broad,
sweeping strokes, just so many strokes and no more, just so far with
each stroke and not a fraction of an inch farther, rushing along
interminable sleeves, sides, backs, and tails, and tossing the finished
shirts, without rumpling, upon the receiving frame. And even as his
hurrying soul tossed, it was reaching for another shirt. This went on,
hour after hour, while outside all the world swooned under the overhead
California sun. But there was no swooning in that superheated room.
The cool guests on the verandas needed clean linen.<br />
<br />
The sweat poured from Martin. He drank enormous quantities of water,
but so great was the heat of the day and of his exertions, that the
water sluiced through the interstices of his flesh and out at all his
pores. Always, at sea, except at rare intervals, the work he performed
had given him ample opportunity to commune with himself. The master of
the ship had been lord of Martin's time; but here the manager of the
hotel was lord of Martin's thoughts as well. He had no thoughts save
for the nerve- racking, body-destroying toil. Outside of that it was
impossible to think. He did not know that he loved Ruth. She did not
even exist, for his driven soul had no time to remember her. It was
only when he crawled to bed at night, or to breakfast in the morning,
that she asserted herself to him in fleeting memories.<br />
<br />
Monday morning he was hard at work, sorting clothes, while Joe, a towel
bound tightly around his head, with groans and blasphemies, was running
the washer and mixing soft-soap.<br />
<br />
"I simply can't help it," he explained. "I got to drink when Saturday night comes around."<br />
<br />
Another week passed, a great battle that continued under the electric
lights each night and that culminated on Saturday afternoon at three
o'clock, when Joe tasted his moment of wilted triumph and then drifted
down to the village to forget. Martin's Sunday was the same as before.
He slept in the shade of the trees, toiled aimlessly through the
newspaper, and spent long hours lying on his back, doing nothing,
thinking nothing. He was too dazed to think, though he was aware that
he did not like himself. He was self-repelled, as though he had
undergone some degradation or was intrinsically foul. All that was
god-like in him was blotted out. The spur of ambition was blunted; he
had no vitality with which to feel the prod of it. He was dead. His
soul seemed dead. He was a beast, a work-beast. He saw no beauty in the
sunshine sifting down through the green leaves, nor did the azure vault
of the sky whisper as of old and hint of cosmic vastness and secrets
trembling to disclosure. Life was intolerably dull and stupid, and its
taste was bad in his mouth. A black screen was drawn across his mirror
of inner vision, and fancy lay in a darkened sick-room where entered no
ray of light. He envied Joe, down in the village, rampant, tearing the
slats off the bar, his brain gnawing with maggots, exulting in maudlin
ways over maudlin things, fantastically and gloriously drunk and
forgetful of Monday morning and the week of deadening toil to come.<br />
<br />
A third week went by, and Martin loathed himself, and loathed life. He
was oppressed by a sense of failure. There was reason for the editors
refusing his stuff. He could see that clearly now, and laugh at himself
and the dreams he had dreamed. Ruth returned his "Sea Lyrics" by mail.
He read her letter apathetically. She did her best to say how much she
liked them and that they were beautiful. But she could not lie, and
she could not disguise the truth from herself. She knew they were
failures, and he read her disapproval in every perfunctory and
unenthusiastic line of her letter. And she was right. He was firmly
convinced of it as he read the poems over. Beauty and wonder had
departed from him, and as he read the poems he caught himself puzzling
as to what he had had in mind when he wrote them. His audacities of
phrase struck him as grotesque, his felicities of expression were
monstrosities, and everything was absurd, unreal, and impossible. He
would have burned the "Sea Lyrics" on the spot, had his will been strong
enough to set them aflame. There was the engine-room, but the exertion
of carrying them to the furnace was not worth while. All his exertion
was used in washing other persons' clothes. He did not have any left
for private affairs.<br />
<br />
He resolved that when Sunday came he would pull himself together and
answer Ruth's letter. But Saturday afternoon, after work was finished
and he had taken a bath, the desire to forget overpowered him. "I guess
I'll go down and see how Joe's getting on," was the way he put it to
himself; and in the same moment he knew that he lied. But he did not
have the energy to consider the lie. If he had had the energy, he would
have refused to consider the lie, because he wanted to forget. He
started for the village slowly and casually, increasing his pace in
spite of himself as he neared the saloon.<br />
<br />
"I thought you was on the water-wagon," was Joe's greeting.<br />
<br />
Martin did not deign to offer excuses, but called for whiskey, filling his own glass brimming before he passed the bottle.<br />
<br />
"Don't take all night about it," he said roughly.<br />
<br />
The other was dawdling with the bottle, and Martin refused to wait for him, tossing the glass off in a gulp and refilling it.<br />
<br />
"Now, I can wait for you," he said grimly; "but hurry up."<br />
<br />
Joe hurried, and they drank together.<br />
<br />
"The work did it, eh?" Joe queried.<br />
<br />
Martin refused to discuss the matter.</b><br />
<b><br /></b>
<b><br /></b>
<br />
A big screen TV and a computer are probably the only respite from the
mind numbing nature of the work low paid workers do --- it's all they've
got to keep them from going nuts. Sadly, some of them might be watching
Fox News.<br />
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Carolinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09370245250835273151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4716821379788376563.post-27053625633231532272014-09-20T08:56:00.002-07:002014-09-20T08:56:26.079-07:00I wrote a letter to the Times about how they always leave out the real antecedents to any "unrest" attributed to Palestinians in Israel. Now what could they say (instead of "events that led to" referring to one recent incident)? They could say, "The West Bank and Gaza, where most Palestinians live, have been occupied by Israel since [whatever year]" or "for nearly 50 years." They don't even need the phrase about "events"--the fact of an endless occupation would be sufficient, I think. They could, of course, add, "the ancestors of current Palestinians had homes in what is now Israel, an entity which expelled them from their ancestral lands." But it's not bloody likely.Carolinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09370245250835273151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4716821379788376563.post-85295423793615089932014-09-12T07:58:00.000-07:002014-09-12T07:58:16.569-07:00Overdetermined. The word of the year? The decade? The century? While "overdetermined" was used quite a bit in the last century, in this one, it seems to be taking over. In just the last day, I have come upon it in about four times in four web excursions. Very useful it is, too, when you're talking about something we all know and are already bored with. But is the word "overdetermined" also overdetermined? Yes, I think so.Carolinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09370245250835273151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4716821379788376563.post-74313761421535189962014-09-05T19:23:00.000-07:002014-09-05T19:23:46.958-07:00Jeff Koons at the Whitney:<br />
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A wonderful piece by Jed Perl in the New York Review of Books: "His combination of in-your-face banality and in-your-face extravagance"is just one beautiful phrase among many. How I detest that banality and that extravagance and everything this "artist" stands for, including getting the largest amount ever for a piece--82 million dollars, maybe. Not while I'm eating.Carolinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09370245250835273151noreply@blogger.com0