Saturday, May 7, 2011 - Hastings NE
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Hastings Air Force Station, Abandoned 1968, Hastings NE, May 7, 2011
Gotcha!
At the filling station this morning, I punched the button for the lowest grade, started pumping, then noticed the price was $0.15 higher than advertised. Grumbling I quite the fill-up. It seems the Lowest price is for the mid-grade. By a lot. That's deceptive I concluded. Later I continued my fill-up at a station of another brand in another town, Hastings NE, and surprise surprise the same pricing scheme holds. What gives?
DLD State Recreation Area
What a neat find. A tiny little recreation area with a few nice level spots to camp. And unused and unmaintained at that. My kind of place. Much quieter than one of Wally's parking lots and the same price at that - $0.00.
And the dandelions are fresh! Yum.
Night camp
Site n/a - DLD State Recreation Area, Hastings NE
- Verizon cell phone and EVDO service - good signal
- Go to DLD State Recreation Area website
- Locate DLD State Recreation Area on my Night Camps map
- 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