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Stateside with Rosalea Barker: Arkansas
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 3:22 pm | Rosalea Barker
No sooner had the 25th state been admitted to the Union in 1836 than controversy erupted over the spelling and pronunciation of its name. One of its US Senators demanded to be introduced as the Gentleman from AR-kan-SAW and the other wanted to be introduced ... More >>
Rosalea Barker: Missouri
Wednesday, 23 September 2009, 9:44 am | Rosalea Barker
“I have never known a question so menacing to the tranquility and even the continuance of our Union as the present one. All other subjects have given way to it and appear to be almost forgotten. As however there is a vast proportion of intelligence and ... More >>
Lines written on watching Bright Star
Monday, 21 September 2009, 12:37 pm | Rosalea Barker
I noticed recently that BBC World News has been partly sponsored by “Bright Star, a new movie by Jane Campion”, so when a friend offered me a ticket to the preview last Thursday night, I was keen to quench my curiosity. If “quench” is what one ... More >>
Stateside: Maine
Monday, 14 September 2009, 3:14 pm | Rosalea Barker
Maine was admitted to the Union on March 15, 1820, as part of the Missouri Compromise, which admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state in order to keep the number of senators from both camps equal. A poem written by a Mainer, Timothy ... More >>
Update on California’s prison release conundrum
Monday, 14 September 2009, 3:09 pm | Rosalea Barker
Because of the deadline for Werewolf , my story there is now out of date with respect to the prison reform legislation California has been considering. The California Legislature’s regular session ended at midnight on Friday, 11 September, and the ... More >>
Rosalea Barker: One or two or three for the road
Tuesday, 8 September 2009, 3:09 pm | Rosalea Barker
I confess to being very puzzled about the news on television that “Samoa” has switched to driving on the left-hand side of the road. Even local TV news bulletins carried the story, which must have been a shock for an American audience. The only ... More >>
Stateside: Alabama
Monday, 31 August 2009, 1:58 pm | Rosalea Barker
Sweet home, Alabama! Here we are, down in the South again, in that eastern part of the Mississippi Territory that was admitted to the Union in 1819. The U.S. President at the time, Monroe, had been instrumental in the Louisiana Purchase was effected ... More >>
Stateside: Kennedy funeral
Monday, 31 August 2009, 11:37 am | Rosalea Barker
A big fat tear rolled down my cheek at the end of Sen. Edward Kennedy’s funeral mass this morning. The local CBS station carried the events leading up to the service, and the service itself, live from 8 am until it ended at 10 minu More >>
Rosalea Barker: Illinois
Wednesday, 26 August 2009, 1:35 pm | Rosalea Barker
Okay! Time for some fun! Want to read the history of Illinois?—click here . At the last minute, I’ve decided to spare you any dire stories about Indian wars, Abraham Lincoln, the Haymarket Riots, the Pullman Car Strike, the Great Migration, ... More >>
Rosalea Baker: Mississippi
Monday, 17 August 2009, 4:46 pm | Rosalea Barker
Time to jump down, turn around, and pick a bale of cotton. Since leaving behind the original colonies and states formed from land east of the Appalachians, you may have noticed an increased tendency to hopscotch around the continental United States as ... More >>
Stateside: Calloo! Callay! O, frabjous day!
Monday, 17 August 2009, 3:13 pm | Rosalea Barker
What a day this has been! What a rare mood I’m in! Why, it’s almost like living in the land of the people with spines! This afternoon, Bay Area Rapid Transit train operators announced they’ll be going out on strike at midnight on Monday. Yippee! More >>
Mandatory 50-year life sentence/period
Thursday, 13 August 2009, 4:25 pm | Rosalea Barker
I’ve finally figured out my life’s work! It is to genetically engineer human beings so that they die on or near their 50th birthday. No doubt I’ll have a big problem finding folks to test it out on—the usual research populations for the ... More >>
Stateside: Indiana
Monday, 10 August 2009, 4:31 pm | Rosalea Barker
Lost your job due to ill health? Lost your home to creditors because you lost your job due to ill health? Whinge no more! Take advantage of your adverse situation by inventing something! Yes, it’s the Pollyanna edition of the Stateside Tour, brought ... More >>
Rosalea Barker: An anniversary
Monday, 3 August 2009, 4:18 pm | Rosalea Barker
Ten years ago this week, I stood in the immigration line at Los Angeles International Airport staring at the ceiling. I’d been instructed to do so by the immigration officer, who said it would help me make a good impression of my inky thumbprint for ... More >>
In California, Education Just Doesn't Pay
Wednesday, 29 July 2009, 2:45 pm | Rosalea Barker
T he first thing you have to understand about California is the number of governments that operate here. Besides the federal government and the state government, there are 58 county governments, and below those counties—except for a few entities that ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Louisiana
Monday, 27 July 2009, 1:57 pm | Rosalea Barker
El bang gigante for les petits bucks! Pardon my manglais, por favor, but the Louisiana Purchase is one of the weirdest land transfers in history, and was a far bigger bang for the bucks President Jefferson laid out for it than he expected. It effectively ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Ohio
Wednesday, 22 July 2009, 4:20 pm | Rosalea Barker
So here we are at the dawn of the nineteenth century. The yeardomoter clicked over to double zeroes in clear defiance of the doomsayers who had predicted the end of the world-- as they do every fin de siècle. And we find ourselves standing on the ... More >>
Top’o’the mornin’ news to ya!
Thursday, 16 July 2009, 4:50 pm | Rosalea Barker
Imagine my surprise at seeing a graphic of the NZ flag at the top of the KTVU early morning news bulletin today. The news was that a 7.8 earthquake had occurred offshore of NZ’s “southern islands” and that it had triggered a tsunami warning “as ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Secession Day, July 4 '09
Sunday, 5 July 2009, 8:21 pm | Rosalea Barker
By the powers vested in me (by me) as Dictator of New California, I hereby declare July 4 to be Secession Day. As a gesture of my great love for My People, all CA Members of Congress and of the now-defunct state legislature and local authorities (why stop ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: The robots in my machine
Wednesday, 1 July 2009, 3:29 pm | Rosalea Barker
A couple of weeks ago, I checked out the RoboGames at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Took lots of photos, and a couple of videos, interviewed some folks, and thought I’d write something about it for Werewolf. Alas! Mechanical failure on the part ... More >>
