New Job!

November 22, 2003 | Leave a Comment

I have a fabulous announcement to make!

I am now the Programs Director at the Las Vegas Institute for Advance Dental Studies.

I am currently seeking a part-time assistant, so if you know anyone, please send them my way. I need someone who is computer literate, organized and adaptable. As LVI is a post graduate dental school, a nice smile doesn’t hurt.

I will continue my other projects - volunteering with the Nevada Women’s Lobby and developing my small business, Conscience Sites.

Oh, and if you need a good dentist, check out our cool website for patients to find LVI graduates www.lvidocs.com
LVI is the premier post-graduate dental institute in the world! We help good dentists become great dentists!

[update: This is what I thought before. Now I disagree.]

Posted by Elaine Vigneault | Filed Under Work, Business, & Finances
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Weekly letters - How Women Get Used Over and Over Again

November 22, 2003 | Leave a Comment

Letters to the editor in the Weekly got published. See for yourself at http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/2003/11/20/letters.html and scroll down.

Or read the unedited versions here:
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Dear Weekly,

Your last cover depicted a woman being stabbed with a real estate sign, and the week before a decapitated woman. The Weekly’s new method to increase circulation (thus advertising and profit) is to sex up the covers with pretty, young things. It’s disturbing enough that you don’t always pay your models, but that you cut off their heads (post-Halloween) just to show off your Photoshop prowess is just plain sick. Read more

Posted by Elaine Vigneault | Filed Under Books, Feminism
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will and grace on inside the actor’s studio

November 16, 2003 | Leave a Comment

Every now and then I see, hear or do something that reminds me of my passion for philosophy. I thought it had left me long ago, but what had left me was my enthusiam for learning through the traditional educational model.

The tickler this time - Will and Grace: to find love you must have the will to seek it and the grace to accept it.

Where is my philosopher poet friend to guide me along my way to changing the world?

Posted by Elaine Vigneault | Filed Under Philosophy and Guidance, TV and Film
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date

November 16, 2003 | Leave a Comment

Dating sucks. I hate it.

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McFecalMatter

November 13, 2003 | Leave a Comment

I have been reading Fast Food Nation lately and I have been horrified by the fast food and meatpacking industries. These companies do horrendous things to cute corners and earn higher profits. For example, most ground beef contains fecal matter! It could be prevented but it would take 1 penny more per pound of beef to slow down the production line enough to keep the meat clean. Wouldn’t you be willing to pay a percentage of one penny more per hamburger to make sure your hamburger wasn’t part poop? Instead of preventing contamination, they just make sure they cook it long enough at a high enough temperature and then if there’s an outbreak of e coli or another bacteria they just blame it on the cooks! I

n fact, our government can force a toy company to recall dangerous children’s toys but it does not have the power to recall food tainted with e coli! That’s because the fast food and meakpacking giants have our politicians in their pockets. The USDA is a joke - an organization filled with the same people it’s supposed to be regulating.

Here’s another one of my favorites: Overworked, underpaid and mistreated workers in the fast food industry have started an epidemic - they often try to rob or kill their bosses. In fact, in 1996 more fast food workers died from this kind of violence than police officers died in the line of duty!
This kind of information really interests me because of my women’s studies background. Many jobs are not considered dangerous but in fact are extremely dangerous due to things like violence.

Fast Food Nation also investigates a forgottend underworld of meatpacking - the people who clean the plants. Their job is extremely dangerous, yet goes unrecognized as such.

I highly recommend the book! It’s the next gen’s Jungle that will change the world.

Posted by Elaine Vigneault | Filed Under Books, Food
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