Al G. Bloom
I learned a couple of days ago that Noam Chomsky will be teaching a couple of classes at the UA. I thought about enrolling in one of them, but then it occurred to me that it will probably fill quickly and would better serve someone who could actually use it as an elective toward their degree completion. I might, however, try to find out what's on his syllabus and read it on my own time.
I decided to apply for TSA Precheck, and I have my in-person appointment tomorrow morning. Hopefully they approve Chomsky-reading radicals like me. I can't imagine they'd have grounds to reject me with my squeaky-clean record on nearly everything. Other than some overdue books, two parking tickets, and three traffic infractions, I've left a pretty spotless paper and data trail. And somehow I think this is just a way for the TSA to get 85 bucks out of anyone who's willing to pay for it.
I mostly want Precheck so that I can skip their (supposedly safe) cancer booths. And it will hopefully mean I can avoid the anxiety I experienced on the way back from Belize when I got selected for additional screening. It had been such a tedious and time-consuming task to fit all of my souvenirs and things in that carry-on bag. I was dreading the process of repacking right before my flight. Thankfully the security agent who inspected my bag didn't feel compelled to dig through the layers. Something similar happened this Sunday on my flight back from Oklahoma City (where I'd been visiting my sisters and mother). I had a stack of souvenir coins from the Museum of Osteology that apparently looked suspicious under their scanners. I'd taped the coins together so that they wouldn't get scattered in my bag, and the fat cylinder I made looked like a DIY motor of some sort.
Anyway, I've been meaning to post a list of the 20 books I've read most recently, so here it is:
1. Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism by Derrick Bell
2. The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison by Mikita Brottman
3. Who Rules the World? by Noam Chomsky
4. Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran by Shirin Ebadi
5. Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? by Thomas Frank
6. Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America by Amy Goodman, David Goodman, and Denis Moynihan
7. Frackopoly: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment by Wenonah Hauter
8. Magic in Islam by Michael Muhammad Knight
9. March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
10. At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle L. McGuire
11. Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
12. Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority by Steve Phillips
13. Green Is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege by Will Potter
14. The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez
15. I Still Believe Anita Hill: Three Generations Discuss the Legacies of Speaking Truth to Power by Amy Richards and Cynthia Greenberg (eds.)
16. Hungry Capital: The Financialization of Food by Luigi Russi
17. Learning from an Unimportant Minority by J. Sakai
18. The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government’s Secret Drone Warfare Program by Jeremy Scahill and the Staff of The Intercept
19. The ABCs of Socialism by Bhaskar Sunkara (ed.)
20. Serenity Volume 3: The Shepherd's Tale by Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, and Chris Samnee
I decided to apply for TSA Precheck, and I have my in-person appointment tomorrow morning. Hopefully they approve Chomsky-reading radicals like me. I can't imagine they'd have grounds to reject me with my squeaky-clean record on nearly everything. Other than some overdue books, two parking tickets, and three traffic infractions, I've left a pretty spotless paper and data trail. And somehow I think this is just a way for the TSA to get 85 bucks out of anyone who's willing to pay for it.
I mostly want Precheck so that I can skip their (supposedly safe) cancer booths. And it will hopefully mean I can avoid the anxiety I experienced on the way back from Belize when I got selected for additional screening. It had been such a tedious and time-consuming task to fit all of my souvenirs and things in that carry-on bag. I was dreading the process of repacking right before my flight. Thankfully the security agent who inspected my bag didn't feel compelled to dig through the layers. Something similar happened this Sunday on my flight back from Oklahoma City (where I'd been visiting my sisters and mother). I had a stack of souvenir coins from the Museum of Osteology that apparently looked suspicious under their scanners. I'd taped the coins together so that they wouldn't get scattered in my bag, and the fat cylinder I made looked like a DIY motor of some sort.
Anyway, I've been meaning to post a list of the 20 books I've read most recently, so here it is:
1. Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism by Derrick Bell
2. The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison by Mikita Brottman
3. Who Rules the World? by Noam Chomsky
4. Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran by Shirin Ebadi
5. Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? by Thomas Frank
6. Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America by Amy Goodman, David Goodman, and Denis Moynihan
7. Frackopoly: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment by Wenonah Hauter
8. Magic in Islam by Michael Muhammad Knight
9. March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
10. At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle L. McGuire
11. Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
12. Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority by Steve Phillips
13. Green Is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege by Will Potter
14. The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez
15. I Still Believe Anita Hill: Three Generations Discuss the Legacies of Speaking Truth to Power by Amy Richards and Cynthia Greenberg (eds.)
16. Hungry Capital: The Financialization of Food by Luigi Russi
17. Learning from an Unimportant Minority by J. Sakai
18. The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government’s Secret Drone Warfare Program by Jeremy Scahill and the Staff of The Intercept
19. The ABCs of Socialism by Bhaskar Sunkara (ed.)
20. Serenity Volume 3: The Shepherd's Tale by Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, and Chris Samnee