When I came to the center yesterday, it was clear that I had rolled in via Vélib’. “Be careful tomorrow with Vélib’,” one instructor warned me, because today’s general strike will make the bicycles extremely valuable. With at least the RER B scheduled to be out of commission, it’s entirely possible that I would have [...]
Continue reading about Are grass’s roots that much more impressive than trees’?
I started this post two weeks ago exactly, but just as I was trying to get my thoughts about Obama straight–or, more precisely, my thoughts about why I felt how I did about his election–I saw a poster for an event hosted by 3CT on “The Event of Obama.” So I decided to hold off [...]
Continue reading about The Event of Obama, and why ambivalence is good
[Updated]Post-hiatus Donkey Hottie is about using literature in posts, not just recreating political arguments distilled from a few Daily Kos posts. So as the Obama/Clinton standoff starts inching itself closer and closer to a mess of a convention in Denver, I feel it is useful to bring up a great scene from Fear and Loathing: [...]
