Mar C. posted an article on The Mongoose Chronicles - Nov 30, 2009, 9:33 am
It's Independence Day in Barbados - 43 years since we told England "thanks for the slavery and that but we can take it from here." I hadn't spent an Independence Day in Barbados for some time,...
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Mar C. posted an article on The Mongoose Chronicles - Nov 12, 2009, 8:47 pm
I've just returned from a panel discussion on The Role and Responsibility of the Writer in Shaping the Identity of a Developing Society. And it was hilarious for a lot of reasons, not least among ...
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Mar C. posted an article on The Mongoose Chronicles - Oct 26, 2009, 5:35 pm
Last weekend, when I grabbed the newspaper from the little old man who is so gingerly perched on the island in the middle of traffic that I'm nervous to move too quickly lest everything topple ove...
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Mar C. posted an article on The Mongoose Chronicles - Oct 18, 2009, 12:26 pm
I'm travelling to some meetings this week, so posting will be lighter than usual, if you can imagine that. (You'll notice that I'm yet to re-establish my minimum one-post-daily schedule. T...
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Mar C. posted an article on The Mongoose Chronicles - Oct 15, 2009, 9:49 am
The Guardian reports that the British National Party (BNP) will now deign to let non-White people join its racist hate-fest. Somewhere, Clayton Bigsby is joyfully shaking his stick. The far-right Bri...
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Mar C. posted an article on The Mongoose Chronicles - Oct 13, 2009, 10:06 am
A HOMOSEXUAL TRYST that turned into robbery and ended in death went before the No. 2 Supreme Court yesterday. This is how the Nation newspaper begins its story on a manslaughter trial currently under...
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Mar C. posted an article on The Mongoose Chronicles - Oct 5, 2009, 12:48 pm
While I was doing my post-grad work in Economics (capitalizing that word feels like such a joke), and even well before then, the academics in the know never tired of mentioning that We, as a collectiv...
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Mar C. posted an article on The Mongoose Chronicles - Oct 4, 2009, 8:54 pm
On Thursday, China marked six decades of Communist rule with an enormous, highly-choreographed parade displaying its military might and seeming to celebrate - with its strict formations and careful se...
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Mar C. posted an article on The Mongoose Chronicles - Oct 1, 2009, 9:23 am
I wasn't going to write about this, because this type of argument exhausts me, but here it is, stuck in my craw, and it doesn't seem to be moving. So onward. Any discussion encompassing gende...
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Mar C. posted an article on The Mongoose Chronicles - Sep 28, 2009, 10:53 pm
Well, no sooner had I rounded the corner from a week of birthday celebrations than I was blindsided by some nasty germs - possibly all the germs in the world, from the feel of things. Posting will res...
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Mar C. posted an article on The Mongoose Chronicles - Sep 21, 2009, 2:12 pm
First let me apologize. I know I've been missing for a week, and I don't have an outstanding reason, except that my monitor decided to go rogue and become the matrix. It's now covered in f...
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Mar C. posted an article on The Mongoose Chronicles - Sep 13, 2009, 4:01 pm
I was just about to post my entry about Melanie Oudin and ask why the small, blonde White tennis player has to be dubbed America's sweetheart when the Williams sisters fit most of the underdog pro...
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Mar C. posted an article on The Mongoose Chronicles - Sep 12, 2009, 10:23 am
The now famous Joe Wilson outburst of "You lie!" during President Obama's defense of his health care plan in Congress was not at all shocking to me. The tremendous backlash against Obama by White ...
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Mar C. posted an article on The Mongoose Chronicles - Sep 11, 2009, 11:40 pm
When I wrote last week about street harassment, a skeptical male reader conceded that such attention could perhaps be considered 'a nuisance'. I suppose it could be characterized as a nuisance...
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Mar C. posted an article on The Mongoose Chronicles - Sep 3, 2009, 12:53 pm
Researchers Mindy Erchull and Miriam Liss at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia are engaged in a study examining attitudes about mothering and feminism. They've developed a survey to co...
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Mar C. posted an article on The Mongoose Chronicles - Sep 2, 2009, 9:08 am
So we heard this past Sunday that once again, following protests from gay rights advocacy groups, Buju Banton has been banned from performing at scheduled shows, this time in Los Angeles, San Francisc...
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Mar C. posted an article on The Mongoose Chronicles - Sep 1, 2009, 12:18 pm
In the name of fairness and thoroughness, I must mention that the Nation newspaper ran a follow-up article to the one we discussed here last week, written by the same author. This one was much more su...
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Mar C. posted an article on The Mongoose Chronicles - Aug 31, 2009, 8:08 am
When I live elsewhere, one of the things that I never miss about Barbados is the cat-calling. Of course, there's cat-calling everywhere. But I think a variety of factors combine to influence the a...
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Mar C. posted an article on The Mongoose Chronicles - Aug 24, 2009, 1:02 pm
The Nation newspaper has (in this past Sunday's edition) solicited the wisdom, such as it is, of writer Chris Brodber in a feature vomitously called "Being right for Mr. Right", aimed at setting ...
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Mar C. posted an article on The Mongoose Chronicles - Aug 23, 2009, 10:28 pm
Last week, reader GenderBender slapped me with a fish (figuratively, I mean) and demanded that I write about Caster Semenya. Even though I did end up writing a few words, at the time that she asked, I...
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Mar C. posted an article on The Mongoose Chronicles - Aug 21, 2009, 12:56 pm
I'm late on this, and even though a reader asked that I cover it, I wasn't going to because so many people already have. But it does not sit right with me to laud the IAAF World Championship v...
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Mar C. posted an article on The Mongoose Chronicles - Aug 20, 2009, 2:26 pm
I was out buying fish today when Ryan Brathwaite won the men's 110m hurdle at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics. Ryan Brathwaite is a Barbadian. He is 21 years old, the youngest athlete e...
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Mar C. posted an article on The Mongoose Chronicles - Aug 19, 2009, 6:53 am
I don't have cable these days. I know. Gasp, right? But the upside of this, depending on how you look at it, is that I get to catch up on lots of films that my sister rents so that we don't ha...
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Mar C. posted an article on The Mongoose Chronicles - Aug 18, 2009, 10:31 am
Marital rape is still legal in the Bahamas, and now there is legislation being proposed that would make marital rape a crime, overturning the current system in which consent to sexual intercourse is p...
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Mar C. posted an article on The Mongoose Chronicles - Aug 17, 2009, 10:56 pm
So the Crop Over festival has just come to an end, and we're all in the process of shaking off the carnival vibe and trying to appear like normal human beings again. It was a good season, although...
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Mar C. posted an article on The Mongoose Chronicles - Aug 16, 2009, 9:05 pm
Back in January, I wrote about a plan that was afoot in Barbados to move the statue of Lord Horatio Nelson from Trafalgar Heroes Parliament Square, and the arguments it engendered on both sides. One s...
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Mar C. posted an article on The Mongoose Chronicles - Aug 16, 2009, 9:03 pm
Ok, not so triumphant. I haven't been off fighting a war or liberating meerkats in captivity or anything. But I have been getting readjusted to life in the tropics. Yes, you read true: I'm bac...
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Mar C. posted an article on The Mongoose Chronicles - Jul 4, 2009, 12:54 pm
There's a lot happening in the world, and unfortunately, I've had neither the time nor internet connection to comment on it all, since my move. We're not fancy enough around here to have a...
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