April 2011
1 post
The New Inquiry: Urban Planning →
thenewinquiry:
Monologue from The Cruise (1998)
The image makes me think of this conversation with this woman the other day. She was this fastidious Judaic type woman in very sexual slacks and we were talking about the grid plan. And I made the comment that the grid plan emanates from our weaknesses—this…
March 2011
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Please No Pictures BBU & Das Racist →
May 2010
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April 2010
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February 2010
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Slumburbia by Timothy Egan →
Related piece from 2008
They totally called this in that movie (and book) The End of Suburbia.
loveandrage:
“Hemmed in by property tax limitations, cities were compelled to increase revenue by the easiest route: expanding urban boundaries. They let developers plow up walnut groves and vineyards and places that were supposed to be strawberry fields forever to pay for services demanded by new...
January 2010
6 posts
Chris Hedges is still pretty cool →
From the article:
The fiction of democracy remains useful, not only for corporations, but for our bankrupt liberal class. If the fiction is seriously challenged, liberals will be forced to consider actual resistance, which will be neither pleasant nor easy. As long as a democratic facade exists, liberals can engage in an empty moral posturing that requires little sacrifice or commitment. They...
WoOT PIRATZ →
Somali “pirates” have indicated that they wish to contribute some of their liberated loot to folks in Haiti. Solidarity.
Naomi Klein: How Corporate Branding Took Over the... →
excerpt: “The risk - and it is real - is that the response will be waves of bitter cynicism, particularly among the young people for whom the Obama campaign was their first taste of politics. Most won’t switch parties, they’ll just do what young people used to do during elections: stay home, tune out. Another, more hopeful possibility is that Obamamania will end up being what the...
I saw this play last night in Anchorage. →
It was Scott Turner Schofield’s one-man “Debutante Balls.” Awesome show, complete with complimentary sweet tea and 90 second dance party.
“If we are in a moment where information is the ideal commodity, characterized by...”
– Marc Bousquet, How the University Works
December 2009
12 posts
Martian moons are cool. →
I like Chris Hedges, but I don't know how I feel... →
I have 15 invites to google wave . . .
… do you want one?
wave.google.com
facebook me or something
“There are, in human affairs, two kinds of problems: those which are amenable to...”
– Testing, Testing
Atul Gawande
The New Yorker
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It’s interesting
New Atul Gawande Piece about the Senate HC bill →
I haven’t read it yet. I’m very exited, though, because his earlier piece in the New Yorker about healthcare was awesome.
First osmosis power plant goes on stream in Norway →
decreation:
science:
The world’s first power plant based on osmotic power — a small prototype plant — recently opened in Norway. The plant generates electricity through osmotic pressure: when salt water and fresh water come together, like when a river meets the sea, there’s a difference in water potential. The fresh water and salt water are brought into distinct chambers, separated by a...
I was on the Kojo Nnamdi show today! →
With Mary Yanik (Feminism Without Borders) and Sara Lipka (The Chronicle of Higher Education). It was a lot of fun, but less about what students are fighting than how and how it compares to the 1960s.
Maryland Regents, FTW (never thought I'd say... →
For now at least. Try and raise tuition. See what happens. (via juliaburke)
Map of American student activism 2009-10
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We’re on the map from studentactivism.net
November 2009
31 posts
Light rail is awesome . . . →
… and people ride it. Can’t wait for the Purple Line. If only the UM admin (Ann Wylie) could just agree with basically the rest of the world on the alignment through our campus. (From wired.com/autopia)
Huff Post is Sexist. news flash (not)
juliaburke:
this is no big surprise.
The liberal news blog uses sexism to drive its readership. and that is not okay.
Amanda Hess (my current blog obsession) on the subject back in June.
And as much as I hate to quote conservatives, especially those who use Sarah Palin as an example of feminism, I find myself agreeing with Mary Katherine Ham on this one:
“”Somehow it’s hard to take HuffPo’s...
http://projects.nytimes.com/california-budget?ref=u... →
Maryland is facing a 2$billion revenue shortfall next FY. Predictions are for cuts of at least 200$million to the University System of Maryland. I have heard from admin that they are looking at 10-20 furlough days, which are now, to make payroll’s job easier, technically just pay cuts.
Tuition is a mystery, but odds are its going up up up.
Reorganization and reprioritization and combining...
WatchDemocracy Now’s Amy Goodman on the California Occupations.
Conclusions:
American Federation of Teachers is awesome.
32% tuition increases are whack.
I bet the University of Maryland has similarly experienced an increase in net revenue yet will be forced to raise tuition next year.
A link to the article.
Occupy California →
Report: California is occupied.
OCCUPY EVERYTHING.
Event tonight 6pm ASY 1213 if you are reading this in College Park come:
OCCUPY EVERYTHING: A look at the NYU and New School occupations.
SKYPING IN will be students INSIDE THE ADMIN building at UCSC!
more coverage
juliaburke:
Great article from the sds womyn’s blog about the importance of diversity in a successful movement.
this really inspires me for the future of maryland’s activism.
...
Baltimore Hate Crime. Tragic. →
(via juliaburke)
Streetcars in DC. (excitement) →
From Greater Greater Washington:
Occupy Everything Tour stop in College Park
Friday 20 Nov
ArtSoc 1213
6pm
Folks from NYC are coming in to chat about the usefulness and recent history of student occupations …
cpsds.org
Look! Even Harvard's student newspaper is writing... →
To comment about the porn-related media in general: it would seem as if the General Assembly’s compromise really backfired. Not only do they not have their policy, but certain members look quite foolish. Moreover, and this is good for students, I think, the Board of Regents has been validated by every major print outlet in Maryland not just as being reasonable but as protecting our basic...
Don't Sacrifice Ideals During Hard Times (and save... →
Robert McCartney’s column on the shadiness that is the University of Maryland’s administration. Also, Save the Hillock.
“Abortion is a safe, legal medical procedure. It seems obvious that insurance...”
– Sara Imershein, WaPo via my mother. Dr. Imershein was her obstetrician when I was born.
I went to the Board of Regents meeting today
and saw a bunch of old white men talk about porn and free speech. The Regents decided unanimously to ignore the state legislature’s request that they develop a policy regulating films shown on USM campuses. As a student at the University of Maryland, I was pretty angry that this was on the table and got together with some friends to try and stop it. Yay for winning!
Media round up:
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students + porn = win →
University System of Maryland Board of Regents defy state legislature and, instead, listen to students. Our policy is no policy!
