Sarah Palin vs Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Sarah Palin Isn’t Hillary Clinton
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What Doesn’t Happen In the US?
My students have been known to assert that stuff like this doesn’t happen in the US, and I often have to tell them otherwise. That the first amendment doesn’t enforce itself but requires our vigilance. Between the recent Inglewood incidents and this incident, the LAPD appears to be careening out of control.
Monday night along the tree-lined walkway entrance to the Hollywood Bowl, as Radiohead was closing the second of their two sold-out nights at the venue, Sean Carlson and Phil Hoelting, promoters of this weekend’s annual F Yeah Fest, were handing out flyers to exiting fans. Their friend Michael Reich, creator of the popular music video site Videothing.com, was recording the two for an upcoming documentary. As Reich shot, he noticed a scuffle occurring within his frame; in the background four security guards could be seen restraining a crowd member as they were ejecting him. The guards, employees of CSC Security, the company contracted by the Bowl to provide protection, were being overly rough with him, alleges Carlson. “They’re strangling him – brutally. He’s gasping for air.” Reich turned his camera directly on the action as the CSC guards continued to restrain the man. … The guard walked up to [Reich] and said, ‘What the fuck do you think you’re filming?’ and grabbed at the camera,” says one eyewitness who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation.Founders of F Yeah Fest and Videothing.com Allegedly Beaten by Security Guards After Radiohead Show – LA Weekly
This Los Angeles Times article provides an update on the Hollywood Bowl altercation.
Eat, Pray, Love: A Companion Piece
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Today I finished reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search For Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia. My sister had lent me her copy many months ago now because she thought I might find it helpful in my search for bearing, for I had been raging at the world, thoroughly grief-stricken, unmoored and topsy-turvy, unsure if I would ever reengage with this world with its treacherous minefields, precarious precipices, and sometimes unforeseeable and almost always disregarded quicksands. |
I read Gilbert’s account of her journeys in such a way that the first two stages of my own life of late coincided almost perfectly with the stages Gilbert experienced and described. When she indulged in Italian pastries in order to reacquaint herself with the basic pleasures that life and humanity had to offer, I was just emerging from a period of giving myself over to music and dance because, frankly, I needed a beat other than that of my own heart to sustain me, a rhythm by which to ensure there would be a tomorrow, and the electric charge of the dancing and the fêting to jolt me repeatedly into the world of the living. When she turned herself over to the austere discipline of an Indian ashram in search of the divine within, I dove headlong into eight, nearly backbreaking months of trying, as if my life depended on it, to motivate and teach the hyphenated youth of America as a part of my own move toward order, discipline, and the divine, if you can see teaching as life-giving and life-affirming as it has been for me.
Bullying
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Bullying and mobbing have become great concerns for me lately. Ironically, I did not see much bullying or mobbing during the eight weeks of SAT boot camp. I saw good natured teasing but overall the kids appeared incredibly supportive of one another. I have seen on the other hand, quite contrary to a sentiment expressed in this article, a lot of bullying and mobbing amongst college students, graduate students, employers and employees, work colleagues, etc. Sadness. Bullying and mobbing cause me to vacillate between speaking out and acting against this insidious violence and checking out in complete disgust. I hope that I can persevere and remain engaged.
URB Blogs’ Review of CNN’s “Black in America”
This weekend, CNN offers up two night and four hours of their “Black In America” series. April’s episode on the MLK assasination was required watching. So set your Tivo before heading out the door Saturday night. – URB Blogs
Since I don’t watch TV, I wasn’t aware of the CNN special and, of course, didn’t watch it. That said, of course I was curious to see how CNN treated the issue. If you’re curious as well, URB Blog offers an intelligent analysis of the special.
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