Archive for February, 2007
Monday, February 26th, 2007
Racewire, a blog. And Oscar, an award.
Colorlines magazine started a blog a few months ago, and i’m late to the game — I just found out about it today. It’s called Racewire. it’s past my bedtime so i just took a quick glance at the site, but it looks hot. And the contributors are amazing — Jeff Chang (author of Can’t [...]
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Saturday, February 24th, 2007
operation infinite scrotum
From “The Higher Power of Scrotum” (by Brigitte Schon): Try this for size: “Shock and Awe” rephrased as “America Hits Baghdad’s Scrotum” – immediately, this action would of course have endangered the innocence of America’s children! I am convinced that the Republicans themselves would have stopped the bombings and the entire attack. Immediately. Never-ending apologies [...]
No Comments » - Posted in books,education,los angeles by anjali
Monday, February 19th, 2007
New Jersey (Newark in particular) on my mind.
I’ve been longing for a bit more connection to new jersey these days. It’s where I grew up, where I lived for most of my life, and where I developed a good amount of my politics. It’s also where I returned to, after undergrad and grad school in Pennsylvania and New York City, to complete [...]
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Sunday, February 18th, 2007
“You go to war with the president you have…”
“…not the one you wish you had” — Rep. Tim Ryan (Ohio)
No Comments » - Posted in iraq,quotes,war and health by anjali
Friday, February 16th, 2007
“Medicine is a noble profession. You render it shameful”
…or “the tale of an unlucky appendix at the hands of the daughters of charity, in the city of angels.” Robert Issai President and CEO Daughters of Charity Health System 26000 Altamont Rd. Los Altos Hills, CA 94022-4317 Dear Mr. Issai: I recently suffered from appendicitis, and was admitted to the emergency room at Saint [...]
No Comments » - Posted in healthcare,los angeles,strategy and tactics by anjali
Sunday, February 11th, 2007
Looking beyond “for the greater common good”
The NYTimes has a great op-ed piece entitled “Who Pays to Stop a Pandemic?” that describes the implications of avian flu prevention preparations on the folks who depend on chickens and other birds for their income. Losing your source of subsistance can be absolutely devastating, and unfortunately governments usually don’t address the plight of the [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized,global public health by anjali
Thursday, February 8th, 2007
If you cannot read all your books…
“If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them — peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that [...]
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Friday, February 2nd, 2007
I’m off to take *%$#@& for a walk now…
R.I.P. Molly Ivins… In 1976, her writing, which she said was often fueled by “truly impressive amounts of beer,” landed her a job at The New York Times. She cut an unusual figure in The Times newsroom, wearing blue jeans, going barefoot and bringing in her dog, whose name was an expletive. – Katharine Q. [...]
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Friday, February 2nd, 2007
I’m back, Kenya hear me now?
There’s nothing like spending a month of your life in africa, among doing community health work and travelling and experiencing the world social forum in nairobi, kenya, and then arriving back (after 24 hours of flights and layovers) the EVENING before you’ve gotta start work again. What was i thinking? But i’ve been lucky — [...]
