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Stateside With Rosalea: Inauguration Eve Day
Tuesday, 20 January 2009, 3:57 pm | Rosalea Barker
It’s another beautiful sunny day here in the Bay Area this Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday, so I snapped some more pix for you of the lead-up to tomorrow’s inauguration. The air is hummin! More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Real-ass real
Tuesday, 20 January 2009, 11:57 am | Rosalea Barker
There’s only one news story in Oakland at the moment. It began in the very early hours of New Years Day and won’t be going away any time soon. I’ve been trying to write about it ever since Day One, but just can’t find a way in. So this will ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Toodle-oodle ooh!
Tuesday, 20 January 2009, 11:56 am | Rosalea Barker
Possums, just two more sleeps until the Bush presidency ends! Thousands of people have traveled from the Bay Area to Freezy D.C. to watch the inauguration, including the 100-year-old mother of a customer at my local convenience store, undaunted by ... More >>
Rosalea Barker: Real-ass real
Friday, 16 January 2009, 10:36 am | Rosalea Barker
There’s only one news story in Oakland at the moment. It began in the very early hours of New Years Day and won’t be going away any time soon. I’ve been trying to write about it ever since Day One, but just can’t find a way in. So this will ... More >>
Some thoughts on watching the BBC News
Wednesday, 7 January 2009, 10:49 am | Rosalea Barker
There was no warning. The announcer didn’t say, “Some viewers might find these images disturbing. Viewer discretion is advised.” They simply cut from the studio to the reporter, who was wearing a flak jacket. A little graphic on the top left ... More >>
Stateside: Bad Language
Tuesday, 30 December 2008, 1:33 pm | Rosalea Barker
::Silence:: It’s the gaps between words that make them audible or visible, so silence is a part of language. Some silence is good; some bad. Perhaps inspired by many recent news items about the death of Harold Pinter and his use of silence in ... More >>
Merry Christmas, 2008
Saturday, 27 December 2008, 1:05 pm | Rosalea Barker
Settle down, my little goslings, and let Aunty Rosalea dispense your gifts this sunny but cold Oakland Christmas morning. (Yes, I know it’s Boxing Day Down Under, but let’s pretend.) More >>
Stateside: Funny capers at the USDA
Saturday, 27 December 2008, 12:12 pm | Rosalea Barker
As President-elect Obama prepares to take his oath of office with his hand on the bible used at Abraham Lincoln’s 1861 inauguration as the 16th President, he might do well to reflect on these lines from a poem Lincoln wrote in 1846: More >>
Stateside: Newsy news
Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 1:38 pm | Rosalea Barker
::User-generated news:: Here in the Bay Area, there is an interesting new development in news reporting. A site called Spot.us allows reporters to post pitches that are then funded by donations from individuals. Reporters might also get financial support ... More >>
Stateside: Bizarrities
Monday, 8 December 2008, 1:42 pm | Rosalea Barker
The topic of this week’s Stateside was going to be the weird conversations that perfect strangers strike up with me. What is it about me, I wonder, that someone in the post office will ask me as we leave if I believe in UFOs and then walk with ... More >>
Rosalea Baker: Peter Camejo -- Presente!
Tuesday, 2 December 2008, 9:39 am | Rosalea Barker
Often referred to disparagingly by the mainstream media as “the perennial candidate”—after all, he first ran for President in 1976—Peter Camejo was a huge force in progressive politics in the United States. He died on September 13, having just recently switched ... More >>
Stateside: Re-tuning T-Day
Friday, 28 November 2008, 2:14 pm | Rosalea Barker
This being the fourth Thursday of November, it is Thanksgiving Day, and what better way to spend it than giving thanks. I’ve started my own little T-Day tradition this year by writing thank you notes to organizations that help out others in this ... More >>
Stateside: Parlor games
Tuesday, 18 November 2008, 10:06 am | Rosalea Barker
On Face the Nation this morning, host Bob Schieffer’s commentary began “Let the parlor games begin!” He was referring to the guessing games that go on during a transition: “that time of high hopes and great speculations about who is going ... More >>
Rosalea Baker: An Election Viewed
Monday, 10 November 2008, 5:00 pm | Rosalea Barker
The photo above is the front page of the early edition of the national newspaper USA World on November 5, 2008. The later edition had the headline Obama Wins. Local papers here in the Bay Area are all offering their Wednesday editions for sale online—the ... More >>
Stateside: Wet weekend vids
Monday, 3 November 2008, 3:22 pm | Rosalea Barker
This video was shot this afternoon (Saturday) at the KQED studios in San Francisco, and shows supporters of Cindy Sheehan and Libertarian candidate Phil Berg trying to get on a popular radio show called Forum, which was giving Nancy Pelosi 30 minutes ... More >>
Phooey, and more phooey!
Tuesday, 28 October 2008, 10:27 pm | Rosalea Barker
It’s not every night in the U.S. that you see what looks like the back row of a Tongan rugby team standing in the bed of a pick-up truck—one wearing a pair of novelty glasses with fluorescent green whirly lights—jumping up and down, waving ... More >>
An Occasional Note on the Campaigns No. 16
Monday, 20 October 2008, 12:12 pm | Rosalea Barker
In just 16 days I will be the most important person in the world—a voter in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Okay, okay. I’ll be just one of those voters. And it’s debatable whether the U.S. is the most important country in the world, ... More >>
Stateside: Small Consolations
Monday, 13 October 2008, 5:58 pm | Rosalea Barker
Back in August 2005, when my personal credit crunch hit in the form of impending layoff from a research project that was running out of money, I wrote a piece for a local citizen journalism website about small things I was doing to prepare for ... More >>
An Occasional Note on the Campaigns No. 15
Friday, 10 October 2008, 12:06 am | Rosalea Barker
Don’t you just hate writing with a big ole black felt-tip marker pen? Poor John McCain had to use one during the second presidential debate and you have to wonder why. Did he leave his trusty signing fountain pen on the bus that night? Did it leak? ... More >>
Stateside: Girls on TV
Monday, 6 October 2008, 8:43 pm | Rosalea Barker
No, not THAT girl, whose debate with Joe Biden I watched at a viewing party where Palin Bingo cards were handed out so people could mark off the stock phrases the Alaska Governor uses. Thankfully it wasn’t a drinking game or the audience would ... More >>
