In spite of what I may have told you, I didn’t just fly into San Antonio a few days ago to piss on the Alamo, and then immediately return home. As much as I like the idea of zipping into a city, pissing all over their most sacred public artifact, and then zipping right back […]
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Blogbaby episode five: Lisa Bashert on the Public Library as Commons
[While I’m busy scrubbing poop from diapers and other articles of clothing, several friends have been kind enough to provide content for this site, through a program we’re calling Blogbaby. Today’s contribution comes from my friend, local sustainability advocate Lisa Bashert.] I was in the library today. In fact, I was in the library three […]
Posted in Detroit, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged access to information, Blogbaby, book clubs, Books at the Brewery, commons, computer access, Detroit Public Library, Emergency Financial Manager, Emergency Financial Manager’s Act, infrastructure, Jonathan Kinloch, libraries, library privatization, Lisa Bashert, Monteith, public libraries, Sustainability, Sustainability Film Series, technology access, Ypsilanti District Library 32 Comments
Rewriting history in Texas
Remember how I told you that Republicans in Texas were attempting to make a few “minor” changes to their state’s K-12 history textbooks, like removing any mention of that little “separation of church and state” thing? Well, it looks like they’ve made some tremendous headway in the last few days. Since we last discussed it, […]
Posted in Church and State, Education, History, Politics Also tagged a wall of separation between Church & State, asshole Republicans of Texas, asshole Republicans of Texas who are rewriting American history books, Bruce Maiman, Christian nation, founding fathers, Jefferson Davis, Joe McCarthy, John Calvin, Mary Helen Berlanga, Orwellian, removal of the word democratic, rewriting history, social studies, St. Thomas Aquinas, Tejanos, Texas, Texas Education Board, Texas Freedom Network, textbooks, Thomas Jefferson 13 Comments