Archive for December, 2006
Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
Goin’ to Tanzania, Kenya feel me now?
January will be a good month. Partly because it’s a new year and everyone likes to be optimistic about a new year. But in addition, I’ll be visiting a continent I’ve never before stepped foot on, and that’s damn exciting. I’m heading to Tanzania and Kenya (for a whole month) in just a few days! [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in tanzania-kenya by anjali
Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
When Is a Fish Like a Carrot?
From When Is a Fish Like a Carrot?: The answer is: When it is a farmed fish. The U.S. Department of Agriculture routinely distinguishes between organic carrots and the regular kind when it decides whether to grant an “organic” label. But it has gotten into trouble over how to decide whether a fish is organic [...]
No Comments » - Posted in food policy by anjali
Sunday, December 24th, 2006
Really neat people are “humorless and inflexible prigs”
I didn’t make that statement! It’s from “Saying Yes to Mess”, New York Times, December 21st, 2006. …But contrarian voices can be heard in the wilderness. An anti-anticlutter movement is afoot, one that says yes to mess and urges you to embrace your disorder. Studies are piling up that show that messy desks are the [...]
No Comments » - Posted in culture by anjali
Friday, December 22nd, 2006
Political street art and “The Pursuit of Happyness”
From Los Angeles based artist Mark Vallen’s wonderful blog — Art for a Change — the story behind his Free South Africa posters that are wheat-pasted on a wall in the upcoming movie The Pursuit of Happyness: I created my Free South Africa poster in the summer of 1985, just as the international anti-apartheid movement [...]
No Comments » - Posted in art for the masses,california,nonviolent resistance,race by anjali
Saturday, December 16th, 2006
the night of a thousand boomboxes
I just received word about tomorrow’s event “Unsilent Night” at Pan Pacific Regional Park in Los Angeles: An electronic caroling party for an infinite number of boomboxes. At once peaceful, electric, dreamy, and communal, this is a chance to be part of a greater stereo system and celebrate the holiday spirit. Different parts of the [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in beats,los angeles,technology for the masses by anjali
Saturday, December 16th, 2006
Did you put something in your ear?
Yesterday I worked a long 12 hour shift (yes, there are short 12 hour shifts and long 12 hour shifts) in the pediatrics emergency room at a county hospital as part of my pediatrics experience during my family medicine residency training. I didn’t end up leaving the hospital until a while after my shift ended [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in residency by anjali
Saturday, December 16th, 2006
A year later, tookie.
I know so little of Stanley Tookie Williams’ life and life-work in redeeming himself and teaching others about gangs and violence, but in remembrance of December 13th, 2005 (the date a year ago when he was executed by the state of California), i’m posting a brief excerpt from his interview from jail, on the phone [...]
No Comments » - Posted in los angeles,violence by anjali
Saturday, December 16th, 2006
Cali leads the country…
…in death row inmates. I didn’t know. Yesterday a federal judge ruled that the state of california does not protect against cruel and unusual punishment in its lethal injection practices: California has the largest death row in the nation, at about 650. The state has executed 13 people since the United States Supreme Court reinstated [...]
No Comments » - Posted in violence by anjali
Wednesday, December 13th, 2006
a 12-step program for crackberry and email addicts
From the Wall Street Journal article “Blackberry Orphans”: Emma Colonna wishes her parents would behave, at least when they’re out in public. The ninth-grade student in Port Washington, N.Y., says she has caught her parents typing emails on their Treos during her eighth-grade awards ceremony, at dinner and in darkened movie theaters. “During my dance [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in technology for the masses by anjali
Sunday, December 10th, 2006
on michigan’s anti-affirmative action vote
Susan Douglas breaks down the Michigan affirmative-action ban votes: The ban passed overwhelmingly–58 to 42 percent–with support from a whopping 70 percent of white men. Women were more divided, but nonetheless a CNN exit poll found that 59 percent of white women favored the ban, and even 30 percent of non-white men supported it. Those [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in affirmative action by anjali
Thursday, December 7th, 2006
the sniffles…
…are what i suffer from. and muscle achiness, stuffy congestiveness, coughing, sore throat, the works, the whole viral works. gotta love it. working in the pediatrics emergency room these days has been tough — in the last 3 weeks i’ve caught two bugs from kids — the first a violent gastrointestinal disturbance (or was that [...]
