So I've been reading Lies My Teacher Told Me recently. It's kind of like Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, revealing the ethnocentric biases and omission of uncomfortable truths in the dominant history curricula in this country ( Read more... )

California was practically 60/40 for Obama, yet it appears that the hateful prop 8 (ban on gay marriage) passed ( Read more... )

The other day, my roommate and I were talking about Japan, and the reputation of a strict Japanese work ethic, when she uttered the offense ( Read more... )

The former president Andrew Jackson was such a D-bag. Seriously, the dude became popular as an "Indian killer" and as a president, all he did was erode their rights and steal their land. Yet he is honored as the image on the $20 bill ( Read more... )

Startling facts I've learned in my Sociology class so far:

• Corporations systematically target Native American reservations when looking for locations for hazardous waste incinerators, solid waste landfills, and nuclear waste storage facilities.
• American cities are more segregated today than they were in 1900.
• The wage gap between non-Hispanic white ( Read more... )

I'm too lazy to write another one of my long entries, so I'll just list stuff. Maybe I'll elaborate later.

• My mom doesn't believe I can survive college.
• My mom trying to talk me into going to a local San Antonio college.
• Losing contact with some friends.
• Being forgotten by some? Forsaken? I feel that I have become less important to some close ( Read more... )

I've started painting classes again!! They are from 9:30am to 12:30am on Saturdays. I never really paint at home, there's no room. Sometimes I do some small scale stuff on my desk, but my desk is made of pine and my floor is carpet so I can't really do anything big without making a mess. I can't paint in oils because my room will reek of turpentine ( Read more... )