The Perfect Storm hits Local Government

by | Mar 25, 2007 | Neoliberalism | 3 comments

I’ve been watching Jericho. It’s a more-than-decent attempt to combine Picket Fences with The Day After. This combination enables them to tell a variety of stories–suburban pathos stories in one thread, nuclear holocaust stories in another thread...

High School Politics in DC

by | Mar 24, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Education

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently gave DC 122 million for their high schools. (as an aside, i’ve been an Apple guy for the last few years because Windows sucks so bad…but as evil as Windows is pitched to be, it’s hard to argue with Bill...

Voting Rights for DC Around the Corner?

by | Mar 23, 2007 | Politics | 1 comment

I’ve been remiss in not following this story. For the uninformed, because DC is a District, rather than a state, it does not have full representation in either the House or the Senate. In fact, until the early seventies DC didn’t even have a mayor and...

Consumer Branding and the Black Body

by | Mar 22, 2007 | Afrofuturism

I’ve long been interested in the power of branding. In how our bodies are used by corporations to advertise products and lifestyles along with them. In how we sometimes use branding and flip the meanings–one of the reasons that University of Michigan...