This Is Only Funny If You Go/Went To NYU Undergrad
Sucks to be a sophomore.
...read moreRequest for the Techies
Can anyone with more tech savvy come up with a small gif of the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz doing a little dance? Thanks much!
...read moreThey’re Back
Happy! Happy! Joy! Joy! The crew at Pandagon have kicked their unreliable new server host to the curb and are back in business.
...read moreDe-lurking
So, Kevin over at Slant Truth has continued the discussion about appropriation off of nubian’s post at blackademic about one-night-stand links. (She develops her thoughts some more over here.) Basically, the problem (part of the problem) is this: a “little” blogger will labor in relative obscurity. Then a “big” blogger will happen onto one of [...]
...read moreListen Up, Lou Dobbs
And the rest of the US media. Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez has something to tell you: Open letter to CNN and other mainstream US media outlets: 1. The vast majority of Hispanics/Latinos in the U.S. (75 percent of us) were born and raised here, including many of us who have roots here that predate the arrival of [...]
...read moreA Glimpse Inside the Republican Psyche
This time, it’s Sen. Cornyn: Well, you know, that’s the problem in America, we’re always having elections. Pesky democracy. CNN transcript here.
...read moreStrength Comes From Refusing To Be Shamed
A must-read narrative on the author’s experience with sexual assualt. Introduction Part 1: Petrification Part 2: Dehumanization Part 3: Humiliation. Part 4 is forthcoming. Read them, read them, read them.
...read moreWednesday Good Stuff
And there’s so much of it!
...read more“When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.”
-George W. Bush Except, you know, when we won’t. In Colombia, for example, the leftist guerrilla group FARC often kidnaps civilians and demands ransom from their relatives. FARC also requires the payment of a “war tax” from Colombians in the regions it controls, upon threat of serious harm. Nearly 2,000 Colombians who faced such circumstances [...]
...read moreYou Heard It Here First
New law school ratings are out (pdf). Well, not exactly out, but leaked from U.S. News & World Report. Good on NYU for tying with Columbia for #4. And for Stanford for displacing Harvard as #2. I suspect Harvard’s decline has something to do with their admittance of Ben “vaginas and brown people (and brown [...]
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