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Yes, Swahili Sue, There Is A Santa Claus

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 11, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

What happens when you give Swahili Sue a generous grant of two thousand American? Sue, with the entrepreneurial spirit of her long-necked ancestors, is able to collect shiny pebbles, paying the kids of distant tribesmen sweatshop wages to gather shells (dead animals or bullet casings, either one), while her cousin, the one who owns the funky bodega (which he secretly runs a Nigerian email scam out of), sells her radiator wire from junked and burned out vehicles.

One Shoe, Chinese Shoe

By jelewis8 ⋅ October 19, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. Or better yet, burn down their shoe warehouses. It seems that Spanish workers don’t like the “More Work For Less Pay” ethic of Chinese immigrants, whose unflagging resolve to produce more shoes in foreign countries than the countries themselves produce has raised questions of how much longer traditional [...]

A Conservative Hegemony?

By jelewis8 ⋅ October 11, 2004 ⋅ One comment

Gary Sauer-Thompson writes that the Howard win means the continuation of the social conservative hegemony.
The results of the federal election have depressed me. The hegemony of social conservatism is going to continue for quite some time.
It is all about families. Traditional families. Christian families. Heterosexual families. Families standing on suburban lawns behind those famous white [...]

Hatiquette

By jelewis8 ⋅ October 8, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Hat etiquette, for the distinguished and conscientious gentleman or woman.

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