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Month: September 2005

Brown People, Please Leave Michelle Malkin Alone

Excuse me, but she is not living in East Los Angeles! She got a cozy home outside of DC primarily to escape all the black people in the city and all the illegals everywhere else. But now there are gangs in her neighborhood. They’re even at Target! And it’s the fault of illegal immigration! Because everyone knows that natural-born citizens don’t join gangs. Besides, those immigrants should stay where they are so that they can continue working for pennies a day, making discount clothes for Ms. Malkin to buy from Target.

God, Save Us From Looting

The looting in New Orleans wouldn’t have happened if students were taught the 10 Commandments in schools. Cuz that’s the only way to learn that stealing is wrong. Plus, liberals steal, just like the commies. Although, as far as I can tell from the news coverage, looting would be avoided if only there weren’t any black people around. As Lauren pointed out earlier, black people loot. White people find stuff.

Peggy Noonan has a solution to stop looting: “Shoot ’em!” How very Republican and life-affirming of her. The (completely non-) Independent Women’s Forum agrees. (Disenfranchised? Rubbish!) And they pull the tsunami card.

Get a Job

Further complicating my already hellacious semester, I finally acknowledged that if I don’t become a wage slave I will be in a very real financial crisis in a short few months. The design work has been great, but intermittent, and I won’t be able to devote as much time and effort to design work once student teaching begins. I’m trying to finish up my last design job while planning for the upcoming practicum and, holy shit, I’m about to rip my hair out.

Today I scoured the job ads for part-time placements and dropped off an application at a campus motel looking for work as a night receptionist. Because my advisors have stressed that holding a job while student teaching is “very, very unwise” I need something that will hopefully give me time to grade and plan during my evening hours — waiting tables is definitely out. Further complicating the situation is a small chunk of money that was promised me over the summer that I did not get, thereby wrecking the budget I had that was dependent on said cash. Job it is. *

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76 NYU Arrests

I dropped by this protest yesterday, and it was pretty rad. I love NYU, but their administration is the most bureaucratic, difficult, business-minded entity I’ve ever dealt with in my life. They’re union-busters, plain and simple. They don’t treat their grad students — who teach many undergraduate courses — with the respect that they deserve. There are a variety of issues at play here, but one is that the NYU administration is basing its position on a Bush-appointed panel, which has said that grad students have no right to unionize because they are students, not teachers. During the Clinton years, the Clinton-appointed panel (and I can’t remember the name, but I’ll put it in when I do) ruled that grad student TA’s are both students and university employees (i.e., teachers), and therefore deserve the same right to unionize as other employees. It’s pretty clear to me that grad students, when teaching a class, are teachers.

If you’re an NYU student, support your TAs. They deserve the right to unionize, and they deserve a fair contract, now.

What Really Caused Katrina?

Water vapor, warm air, condensation and wind, you say? Oh you sad, sad blue-stater, you just don’t get it, do you? Courtesty of that science-loving radical right, we now know that hurricanes are caused by evil feminists aborting their babies for fun. Except, well, sometimes they’re caused by the sodomites. And occassionally, it’s boobies and Girls Gone Wild. Many of these same sinners also caused 9/11.

via Ryan.

And in other ridiculous right-wing news, does anyone here read The New York Post? I don’t (I think my 50 cents is better spent elsewhere, like on 1/10th of my coffee), but I do read it over the shoulders of other passengers on the subway (thank goodness for huge headlines, small words, simple ideas and big print!). One thing I noticed yesterday was that all the stories covering Katrina were under the page label “Our Tsunami.” Now, Katrina is a horrific tragedy. But is it really “Our Tsunami”? For one thing, it’s not a tsunami by any stretch. And must the right always co-opt someone else’s tragedy for their own gain? I realize in this case they’re just trying to sell papers, but comparing this hurricane to the South Asian tsunami is entirely innaccurate, totally disprespectful and pretty darn stupid.