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Thursday, November 26, 2009 - Poplar Bluff MO

The Little Tug That Could, reworking a tow, Fort Defiance Park, Cairo IL, November 26, 2009
The Little Tug That Could, reworking a tow, Fort Defiance Park, Cairo IL, November 26, 2009

I took a few hours this Thanksgiving day to watch the tugs and tow boats go about their business at Fort Defiance Park at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in Cairo IL.

Night camp

Wal-Mart Supercenter in Poplar Bluff MO

Wal-Mart Supercenter Store #19, 333 S Westwood, Poplar Bluff, MO 63901 - (573) 686-6420

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

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