Merry Christmas, Rhode Island! We’re Not as Bad Off as Everyone Thinks We Are
My husband alerted me to a fabulous data analysis tool at The New York Times, which lets you view census data in color maps. The one that caught his eye, and then mine, was this one which shows the Change in Median Household income from 2000, which shows that all of Rhode Island has experienced [...]
I’m Voting for Chafee
I missed his voice of conscience in the Senate, where he was the only Republican to vote against the use of force in Iraq– one of the few who had the political courage to stand against a war of choice that still takes the lives of American soldiers and Iraqui civilians. He served a term [...]
A Good Week for Public Art
URI discovered a hidden treasure of Works Progress Administration murals hidden behind some drywall and the Downtown has a building-size tribute to the Industrial National building by Shepard Fairey. ProJo reporter Kathy DeVault watched the painting process from start to finish and reports about it here… Johan Bjurman opens his e-mail to find a digital [...]
Don’t Persecute Fashion Victims
They are suffering enough. Common Dreams reports that a judge threw out a charge against a man wearing droopy pants. I would not admit to being with a guy who was nearly thrown out of the Met Cafe by Sen. Josh Miller for letting his pants droop before it became fashionable and legally defensible. That’s [...]
The Exorcist
Kmareka readers know that I’ve disclosed being part of a Catholic Charismatic group that performed exorcisms in the 1970′s. Clearly, in my case, it didn’t take. But while I came through that craziness with invaluable life experience in the power of groupthink, others might suffer great emotional harm, or even be driven into psychosis. There [...]
When Pawtucket Was Grand
Cool stuff you see driving around Greater Providence. This train station behind a pharmacy parking lot has granite lions holding chains and shields with a heraldic ‘P’. Public architecture isn’t what it was before the two world wars, for a lot of reasons. Will the old train station become another public space? I hope it [...]
Rhode Island Responds
Many Rhode Islanders have family and friends in Haiti. The Providence Journal has a good article today about the local impact and relief efforts organized from Rhode Island churches and organizations. Check it out here. UPDATE: interviews with some Rhode Islanders who have relatives there, in today’s ProJo.
A Word From My Minister
I got this in an email from my minister. He’s a blogger too, his site is Monkey Mind Online. I’m posting this in the best tradition of putting it out there. Some might be surprised I go to church. Yeah, I know that Ann Coulter wrote a book called, ‘Faithless’. She wrote it about people [...]
Rhode Island’s Future is Dark
Rhode Island’s Future website is down today. For repairs? I miss them, hope they get the bugs out soon.
The Floors
But at end of life we run up against a question–just because we can do it, should we do it? Is it always right to keep someone alive for a few days or weeks regardless of what they said they would want, regardless of their condition?
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