A neat story about an Alpha family who has connections with the President.
Author Archives: John Wallenfeldt
A World of Burger
The Obama Downgrade
James Mollison’s Photos of Children’s Bedrooms Are a Commentary on Class and Poverty
A striking look at the wide variety of places where our world’s children place their heads at night.
We can do better.
Revolutionary Moments in Latin American History
A quick look at some of Latin Americans liberators, both successful and not so much.
I want to find a way to make sure my son knows about these people. I fear American education is about to become more useless the more we let Tea Baggers take power. Education kills their strength so, of course, it has to go.
Pray for thinking to make a comeback folks.
Why I’m raising my son to be a nerd – CNN.com
A great article, from a sports writer no less.
Georgia’s state of hate
This begins with a roundup of thing Georgia has done to make it very uncomfortable to be Latino down there. Hell, it’s been dangerous to be non-white there for centuries.
And it isn’t just a color thing. These cretins are both proud to have voted for a guy who questioned the patriotism of a paraplegic honored veteran AND supported Michael Vick AFTER the dog killing facts came out.
I know folks who love Atlanta, can’t say enough about the rest of the state. That’s fine. Personally, I’d let a modern day Sherman re-enact the burning of the place.
The more I read, the more I’m inclined to help fund such an effort.
HB 87 is the bill that makes it state law to hunt down undocumented immigrants and, well, I don’t know really. Something draconian and “Christian” I imagine, like forcibly breaking up a family, burning the birth certificates of any children born here, or something along those lines.
Turns out a downside to trying to make your state lily-white – or less brown anyway – is that no one is around to pick your produce. Using folks on probation hasn’t worked out so well.
A lot of the stories related to this has passed their freshness dates but Jay Bookman at the AJC puts out some good news reporting on this, follow this and this for some background.
We’re all probably going to pay more at the market as these racist Tea Baggers keep pulling this kind of thing. It isn’t enough for them to let the rich live tax free, they have to amp up the cost of everything for the rest of us too. In short, we’re paying for them to be racist pricks to folks just looking for some money to feed their families.
Nice job.
Origin of Species: A History of O’Reilly Animals – O’Reilly Media
I’ve often wondered if there is a method to the madness of O’Reilly technical books. Well, kind of.
‘Closed’ doesn’t deter park visitors
A couple leftovers from the big government shutdown here.
We went up to Duluth for the Fourth to get away from the heat. Damn gorgeous weather there and we had a good time.
Driving up the North Shore we saw a lot of cars parked on the highway with folks going into the closed parks, in some cases in front of state patrol cars.
Well, you know me.
Along with many, many others, we went to Gooseberry Falls State Park and enjoyed a good hour hiking to the falls and playing in the water. Mono came along too, which was a really nice extra perk for us.
I’d do it again in a heartbeat. No Tea Bagging asshat is going to ruin my family’s vacation!
Georgia restaurants report labor shortages after passage of anti-illegal immigration law | ajc.com
Following up on my earlier post on Georgia, it turns out that not only have all the produce pickers been chased off of the farms down that way, so have a lot of the service industry folks. Good job, racists!