In my recent post “Dear Errant, Advice to the Marks: Always Be Cynical” I proposed that there is no way to understand “the way social life works” (that means cities and states and nations, etc.)…
Date Archives August 2011
Dear Errant, Advice for the Marks: Always Be Cynical
If you haven’t seen Glengarry Glen Ross, get thee to your movie outlet of choice (ah, choice) ASAP. (Of course let’s not talk about the Mamet of today, okay?) Briefly, a real estate sales office…
Denial Strata: Economic Geologists and Corporate Industrial Fabrications
You know how sometimes you’re just walking along minding your own Ps and Qs when out of the blue there comes a synchronicity of events that brings a kind of clarity that was formerly “felt”…
Vouchers Redux: The Rhetoric and the Consequences
Surely, if you’re anything like me (don’t admit it if you are!), you must be confronting the idea and fact of school voucher programs from rhetorical and ideological perspectives on offer in the news media…
Murdoch’s Wireless Gen. and EdisonLearning Donated Money to Tony Bennett
This is a guest post by B-town Errant contributor, Doug Martin. This post was originally published on Mr. Martin’s blog on Fire Dog Lake, and has been republished on B-Town Errant with his permission. As the Indiana…
Errant Eye 8/28: Battle for Most Corrupt – ExxonMobil, Dick Cheney and IU’s Haydn Murray
Title Correction: “Haydn White” should be “Haydn Murray”. (Update to #6 below) This morning’s news round-up from the across the Web: 1) One can only hope Dick Cheney travels outside of the country and is…
Errant Eye 8/27: Hispanics and Education – The Great Dream of a Debtor Nation
Our local paper is chock full of less than stellar news today. Let’s just post all that brings me way down. 1) The front page is nearly entirely committed to a murder of a 28…
What’s as American as Apple Pie? Concussions in Sports
Are you ready for some footba…er, brain trauma? This story in the HT, Concussions no laughing matter in football, is timely. I was biking through our local park last night, beautiful weather; a little breeze,…
Errant Eye: News Capture 8/25/11
In “What Caught My Eye” this morning: 1) As it’s “back-to-school” time here in Bloomington and IU is abuzz with horribly inattentive drivers this piece on school debt might be of interest. From Bryce Covert…
“Right-to-Work” Legislation: Same Shit, Different Century
A couple of weeks ago Andrea Neal, who is, I suppose, Indy’s version of a local Weekly Standard columnist, offered a propaganda piece about “Right-to-Work” legislation in the HT. She begins with some “headlines” that purport…