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About Me
- Allison Landa
- Berkeley, California, United States
- I'm a Berkeleyite who wrote a book. It's called BEARDED LADY. I'd be stoked if you read it.
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February
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- Counting Crows, "A Long December"
- This morning
- From Facebook: "How well do you know your spouse?"
- Just got this in email from Adam:The first words o...
- Last night
- Sharing a smoke
- Adam's birthday
- 10CC, "The Things We Do For Love"
- Oliver and I in our natural habitat
- 31
- Dentist: Groping "part of treatment"
- I just interviewed for an anxiety group at the Joh...
- My first publication
- Mike is out of town, which means we not only have ...
- Today's writing
- Europe shots from last year
- Was I cynical when I was 10? Did I hold grudges? S...
- Sometimes I cheat with poetry
- Adam and I met for lunch. I played drama queen ove...
- The dream
- From The Project
- Why I like reading Rob's work
- I'm working through the stuff for writing group ri...
- Dream job
- Second glass of champagne
- After three years of living at the Farm, I've hit ...
- Yesterday Adam told me he's trying to do a better ...
- From 2005
- Perspective
- From an email to Adam today
- Deep breath
- Sweet deal! It's thundering!
- A twosome, not a threesome
- Not like we have to get up any time in the morning
- Today's writing
- The unexpected visitor(s)
- Thai tiger temple: Sanctuary or exploitative con job?
- Continental Flight 3407
- While looking at a picture of us
- A mention in the Guardian's Noises Off blog
- Random thoughts on marriage
- Last night I critiqued Sean's story and thought: "...
- Bukowski: "The Shoelace"
- In the Kitchen: Mediterranean Salmon with Couscous
- Grant Street, 9:45 am.
- ITS-BOAT (487-2628)
- Look out: It's the DR Reunion!
- More on MFA programs
- Mike Daisey on MFA programs
- Talk dirty to me, baby!
- Silent Bob speaks
- Thinking about things that irritate me sometimes g...
- Up in the land of Oaf
- Oscar Grant's buddies to file suit
- Could it be said any better?
- Looking at a "cute-couple" picture ...
- Why?
- None of them was you.
- So much talk, so little said
- When colds hit McGee's Farm
- It occurs to me
- From The Project
- Words of (semi) wisdom for beginning freelancers
- Spent Super Bowl on Andrea's couch, listening to h...
- Super Bowl Sunday
- The last time I had a horrible hangover, it was th...
- I'm having an insomniac few hours, so to lull myse...
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2 comments:
Got to say that while I agree that Daisey's position was extreme and insulting to an honorable profession, he does have a solid point.
The model for financing education in America is broken. I think I could make a convincing case for our shitty educational system having a lot to do with our current sorry state.
Simply put, an educated populace is a healthier, happier, more prosperous populace. Education isn't an expense. It's the national equivalent of putting money in the bank. Running it on a for-profit basis is madness.
Fair enough, Sean.
But how is this accomplished? I'm not sure that anyone's arguing against education -- but it's achieved in many, many different ways.
You can go to community college or a state school, or you can go to a pricey private. It's not perfect, but there are certainly choices here.
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