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This little Marxist goes bourgeois

by S. Godfree

( Class and Desire and Out & About )

Pt. 1: Class conflict(ed)
I’m an angry flyer. But it isn’t the poor service, cramped seats, or high prices that raise my ire – you know, the kinds of things that get normal people’s blood boiling. For me it’s the way that most airlines shamelessly highlight the delineation between the haves and have-nots.
First class [...]

Papa don’t preach

by S. Godfree

( Family and Politics and Religion )

More interesting than whether or not little Bristol Palin is pregnant or whether or not she is in fact baby Trig’s mother is the question of whether or not the Palin family’s “private” affairs should be on or off limits in the nation’s ongoing presidential debate. I say that the private lives of the [...]

The race card

by S. Godfree

One of the more disturbing of my family’s stories has to do with me, as a toddler, asking an African American man dressed in a business suit if he was a garbage man. Imagine my mother’s horror! Obviously, however, my mother’s discomfort isn’t why the story is so troubling. The story’s more [...]

Us (and them) weekly

by S. Godfree

My name is S. Godfree and I am an addict. That’s not completely true – I can usually control myself and not actively pursue my guilty weakness, but every now and again, I’m in a place where it’s easily attainable, and most frighteningly, free. To make matters worse, we recently had a couple [...]

It’s a crime

by S. Godfree

( Class and Drugs and Out & About and Politics )

Susan Atkins, the member of the Manson family who stabbed the pregnant Sharon Tate, and smeared the word “pig” in Tate’s blood on the murder scene wall, recently made an appeal for a compassionate release from prison. For those not up to speed on her health, Atkins is suffering from the final stages of [...]