Friday Random Ten – Now With Downloads!
Happy April Fools Day! If it’s Friday somewhere, it’s time for the FRT. No joke. Load up those mp3s, set to random play and list the first ten that grace your eardrums. 1) Iomos Marad – Each 1 Teach 1 2) Norman Greenbaum – Spirit in the Sky 3) Tanya Stevens – It’s Over Now [...]
...read moreSurvey for Political Bloggers
Via Media Girl comes this academic survey for political bloggers of all shades: My name is Anahí Lazarte and I am agraduate student at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Currently I am working on a project related to political blogs. I am looking for volunteers to share their thoughts about blogging. If you know [...]
...read moreFood For Thought
I’m tired and busy and sore and don’t feel like coming up with an appropriate and original title for this post or adding any commentary to anything I write. But Chuck heard this funny little fact on NPR today, a fact with philosophical implications that I’m too tired to decipher: The 44 Democrat senators represent [...]
...read moreOne Rumor and One More Injury
While waiting for my project partner to show up at my house (dude, where the hell are you?), I took a long walk to campus to get some iced chai. When I walked into the coffee shop, by this point dripping sweat down my forehead and off the upper lip as I tend to do [...]
...read moreFemininity and The Wimp Factor
Media Girl (in the comments of XX) points to this interview by Stephen J. Ducat, author of The Wimp Factor: Gender Gaps, Holy Wars, and the Politics of Anxious Masculinity. If you didn’t get the point of Hillary hatred, the recast of war hero Kerry into a Frenchman, or the offensiveness of calling Edwards “the [...]
...read moreI Got Your Education Right Here
I may be a bad person for finding this hilariously funny, but the poetic justice of this one is too beautiful to ignore. Oh, Schadenfreude. Via Bitch Ph.D. comes a digital smack-down in which a young woman gets the kind of education she definitely wasn’t looking for. A young woman on the Dean’s List of [...]
...read moreWomen, Video Games, and Politics
Astarte of Utopian Hell and XX has an awesome post on the nature of women and video games, drawing a correlation between the ways women are handled when seen as a demographic target for tech developers and the way women are drawn in the world of politics. I’ve been doing a great deal of research [...]
...read moreEaster
Norbizness feels the holiday spirit: – Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. I heard it in a Beatles’ song once, so it must be true. But what if I told you that you could double the amount of mercy you obtain without having to give out any more mercy? I know it [...]
...read moreInterconnectivity
Hope some of you can expand, agree, or disagree with this thought: As tools enable us to do more, the bar keeps getting raised higher and higher for how much you have to scan, how quickly you have to respond, and how much output you must generate in order to stay relevant. This relates directly [...]
...read moreWeekend Reads
Patricide: Two Mommies That Colored Fella: Demanding Reparations from the Lefty Blogosphere Half-Changed World: Why I Oppose Private Social Security Accounts, subtitled, “Holy Shit, A Woman Writes About Social Security” How To Turn Your Red State Blue Frogs and Ravens: The Threat of the Willful Child Army Of Mom: Old Flames SistersTalk: Racist Chicago Firefighters [...]
...read moreThwarted
Plans for the day were thwarted when I decided to slice my left hand open in myraid ways: knife, tin can, nail clippers. Too many band-aids to knit, clean, or type. Maybe I’ll nap –can’t hurt myself too badly while sleeping.
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