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  • Booker questioning Barrett

    On Objectivity: Amy Coney Barrett and Corey Booker

    Corey Booker is so good here.  If we had to have centrist presidential and vice-presidential candidates (not my preference), I wish he had been one of them.  He has always had animating substantive moral commitments--to racial justice, to the environment--even though from my standpoint he caves too much to corporations.  Here, he gets Amy Coney Barrett,…
    October 15, 2020
    Black Lives Matter, Colonialism, Current affairs, Politics

  • Listening to Hachemi Gerouabi

    What better on a relaxed holiday day than listening to Hachemi Guerouabi, grand master of chaâbi music (people's or folk music) from Algiers?   Chaâbi came from working class areas in Algiers' casbah.  Its singers generally were city people displaced from rural areas.  They took melody from the classical Andalusian music that came to North…
    September 7, 2020
    Algeria, Chaâbi, Colonialism, Music
  • Skull soldier with skulls all around him--painted on the wall with flower pot and flowers below.

    Anarchist Neighborhood

    Belleville is a good place for political art.  Here are a few known ones.  The skull soldier showing that war means death (not career advancement) always has a well taken care of plant just below it, making the tableau complete.  Mad Marx, who I posted last year, seems to have acquired some friends (or did…
    June 2, 2019
    Algeria, Café, Capitalism, Colonialism, France, Gentrification, Paris, Politics