Thursday, May 14, 2009 - Pittsfield MA
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Three Rivers Petroglyphs Series #3, Three Rivers NM, April 28, 2009
The lousy Verizon service in Red Rock sucks on a rainy day
So I went over to Pittsfield MA to hang out at the Barnes & Noble, do some shopping, do some surfing and update my MacBokk Pro's operating system while I had a fast connection. Then I just stayed instead of driving back in the rain. After all, home is where I park it and I have no need to be in Red Rock early tomorrow.
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Pittsfield MA
Wal-Mart Store #2228, 555 Hubbard Ave./Suite 12, Pittsfield, MA 01201 - (413) 442-1971
- Good level parking lot
- Verizon cell phone service is good
- Verizon EVDO Broadband service is good
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
The Credential of the Dominant
The general veneration that greets the academy is a sign of its near-sacred station and of the importance of its role in, as Bourdieu would view it, the reproduction of the dominant class and its habitus. Although the rewards of academics are middling in terms of financial capital, the cultural capital they accrue cannot be surpassed. To have a college degree -- only about one-quarter of American adults do -- is to have the credential of the dominant; not to have a college degree is to remain forever among the dominated.
The Whipping Boy, Jib Fowles, Reason magazine, March 2001