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Monday, February 8, 2010 - Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM

Image Number 6,000, Bosque National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, February 8, 2010
Image Number 6,000, Bosque National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, February 8, 2010

Six thousand images in 14 days

That's more pictures than I've taken in a lifetime and it's taxing my ability to keep up with the tossing and sorting and cataloging. I'm having trouble getting out of the tourist mode of snapping everything that moves. With the rapid fire this new camera is capable of (a wonderful feature in its place) I can easily end up with 10 or 20 copies of an image I won't end up keeping. Like number 6,000 above - a poor image in a sequence of poor images. The Cranes flew and I got 'em by gorry! Phew...

Night camp

Site 16 - Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, San Antonio NM

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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