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Stateside With Rosalea: Speechless
Monday, 30 March 2009, 6:19 pm | Rosalea Barker
The photo above is from “The House” written by the official historian of the US House of Representatives , Robert V. Remini. In the text below the photo, Remini quotes from Pat Schroeder’s book on her life in the House: “He [Committee Chair ... More >>
Rosalea Barker: South Carolina
Monday, 23 March 2009, 2:10 pm | Rosalea Barker
Several months back, I got it into my head that I’d like to have a little vacation in South Carolina just to be surrounded by people who speak with that lovely SC accent. You can hear one here . More >>
California hearing on Premier voting systems
Wednesday, 18 March 2009, 1:05 pm | Rosalea Barker
In Sacramento this morning, 17 March, the California Secretary of State’s Office held a public hearing on SoS Bowen’s report about a software problem that resulted in 197 votes being erased from an election tally in Humboldt County with no record ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Why I’m an antiplasticator
Monday, 16 March 2009, 2:42 pm | Rosalea Barker
What’s not to like about a state that has as its official sport, jousting? Not a surprising sporting choice, I suppose, since the obverse of its Great Seal features a knight in shining armor brandishing a sword, surrounded by Latin that translates ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Maryland
Monday, 16 March 2009, 2:37 pm | Rosalea Barker
What’s not to like about a state that has as its official sport, jousting? Not a surprising sporting choice, I suppose, since the obverse of its Great Seal features a knight in shining armor brandishing a sword, surrounded by Latin that translates ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Massachusetts
Friday, 6 March 2009, 12:00 pm | Rosalea Barker
Screenprint its name lengthwise on State Commemorative Condoms and Massachusetts would be at the high-value end of the market because it has the most (and mostly fat) letters of any one-name state in the country. (Alas, poor Utah!) More >>
Rosalea’s Recipe IV Recession Recovery
Tuesday, 3 March 2009, 9:24 pm | Rosalea Barker
::Ban the B-words!:: Bonuses. Banks. Billions. Bailout. Budget. Yes, even Barack—of whom we are sick of the sight. Ban the lot of them from our daily discourse! ::Bring back Roman numerals!:: For one thing, there is no zero in the Latin numbering system, ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Connecticut
Friday, 27 February 2009, 10:21 am | Rosalea Barker
Are we bored yet? Heaven only knows what combination of moon phase, sunspot activity, comet flyby , and planetary alignment possessed me to decide I’d write about each state in the order they ratified the US Constitution, but I’m only up to number ... More >>
The price of California’s budget: Part 3
Monday, 23 February 2009, 3:37 pm | Rosalea Barker
(This column consists of excerpts from the March 2009 Ballot Access News , a newsletter that has a particular focus on efforts by third-party and independent candidates to get on the ballot, and the legal challenges they face even if they do. It is edited ... More >>
The price of California’s budget: Part 2
Monday, 23 February 2009, 3:36 pm | Rosalea Barker
There is much I don’t understand about SCA 4 , not the least of which is how this subsection is not invalidated by its own internal contradictions: More >>
The price of California’s budget: Part 1
Monday, 23 February 2009, 3:32 pm | Rosalea Barker
If you ever doubted that Republicans and Democrats want to rule this country without any input whatsoever from smaller parties that represent alternative viewpoints, doubt no more. This week in Sacramento, CA, they passed legislation that, if implemented, ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Revolution in the USA
Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 10:12 am | Rosalea Barker
(In honor of Washington’s Birthday, as today’s holiday is officially known.) If Imperialist America were trying to create on its own shores a group it could use as a pawn to checkmate any attempt by its citizenry to bring about meaningful change, ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Georgia
Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 9:53 am | Rosalea Barker
Although it was the youngest state at the time—just 50 years old—Georgia was the fourth of the 13 states to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Its origins lie in the debtors prison system of Great Britain. When the friend of well-connected Member ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: New Jersey
Tuesday, 10 February 2009, 10:41 am | Rosalea Barker
The third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution was New Jersey. Nowadays, it’s the most densely populated state, with the second-highest median income—although both those statistics might have changed since Wall Street imploded and the many ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: My Own Private Sesqui
Thursday, 5 February 2009, 6:33 pm | Rosalea Barker
Who that was there could forget the damp squib that was Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Sesquicentennial in 1990? I lived in Wellington at the time, and prominent in my memory is some waterfront building that was painted blue. Were there waka on the ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Pennsylvania
Monday, 2 February 2009, 3:25 pm | Rosalea Barker
The second state to ratify the U.S. Constitution was Pennsylvania. It originated as a proprietary colony, the land being given to offset one of King Charles II debts to Admiral Penn. Penn’s son, William, established the colony with a strong bias ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Ditch-it-all TV
Friday, 30 January 2009, 9:03 am | Rosalea Barker
Every day for the past several months, local TV stations have been counting down the days until February 17, when analog signals will be switched off in the USA. That’s because, if you have an analog TV set and no cable or satellite provider, ... More >>
Rosalea Barker: The Omega and the Alpha
Monday, 26 January 2009, 6:34 pm | Rosalea Barker
It’s a curious fact that the “home states” of President and Vice President of the United States are the last and the first—Hawaii and Delaware respectively. (Their joint state abbreviations spell the word “HIDE”, but we won’t dwell ... More >>
Stateside: Did The Ground Shift For You?
Wednesday, 21 January 2009, 9:58 pm | Rosalea Barker
On the way to the Oracle Arena in Oakland, California, as the sun came up on January 20, 2009. The title of the community event at the Arena was “Unity for the Sake of Change: We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” Doors opened at 7, the program ... More >>
Some Thoughts Before The 2009 Inauguration
Wednesday, 21 January 2009, 9:47 am | Rosalea Barker
This is not my moment. It’s a moment to be savored most by people whose history spans the high and low points of these United States. Yet it’s impossible not to be caught up in it. More >>
