Cardinal Law
I believe this headline from the Kansas City Star says it perfectly: “Disgraced Law celebrates Mass for pope”. Over the past week, I have often found myself coming to the defense of Pope John Paul II on liberal blogs. While I am no big fan of the Roman Catholic Church (I’m too Baptist to like [...]
...read moreNunya Business
I can’t help but quote this piece at length: The next time someone calls abortion a moral choice, I will ask him the results of his last prostate exam, or her the results of her pelvic exam. I expect they’ll tell me it’s none of my business. To which I’ll reply, “exactly.” The next time [...]
...read morePoets: A Request
I’m working on my unit plan on poetry and have run into a writing wall. I’m drawing blanks on post-Reconstruction American poets and need some examples of poets who are usable in a public high school. Not to mention compelling enough to use in a high school. Funny that I can come up with tons [...]
...read moreControversial Feminist Andrea Dworkin Dead at 58
Despite being among the most vilified and controversial members of the movement, many of her ideas took hold of me during my early days of feminist discovery. Briefly, Rad Geek has a good round-up. Charles says: Those of you who know something about Andrea Dworkin’s life know that it has not been an easy one. [...]
...read moreStill on Hiatus
I’m still on hiatus with no signs of coming back to the blog world as per the completion of deadlines and projects. The guestbloggers are doing a wonderful job and have provided me plenty of optimum reading material even though I’m technically off the blog. Any guest poster who wants to keep it going is [...]
...read moreNPM: Sylvia Plath
It should be a requirement of all angsty adolescent girls to read and adore Sylvia Plath. Like I did. I wrote lines from her poems all over my notebooks and school things: “like the cat I have nine times to die” “Dying / Is an art, like everything else. / I do it exceptionally well. [...]
...read moreHorowitz: The Man from Self-Victimizationville
Getting Some Business Out of the Way, or The (Much) Shorter Version of What Happened Last Night No pies.† No streaking. Lots of heckling and a few protest signs. Horowitz did not convince me of the necessity for a Hoosier Academic Bill of Rights (HABR). The Longer Version, In Which I Realize that Horowitz is [...]
...read moreFriday Random Ten: Project Guest Blog Edition
Thought I’d do my Friday Random Ten this week at feministe’s guest lodging, rather than my own digs, farkleberries. Here goes: Out Hud – Dad, There’s a Little Thing Called Too Much Information (A cracking good song for nighttime “L” rides) Haunted House – Cowboy Light (A strange but darned catchy song. Horribly overmodulated by [...]
...read morePablo Helps With Homework
Sweet Lil P just left me a present on the floor. By present I mean puked up more pink ribbon in the shape of my foot directly outside my office door. Ethan likes to talk about Pablo with strangers we meet at the grocery store or chat with at the little park around the block [...]
...read moreFriday Random Ten – The Procrastination of Deadlines Edition
If it’s Friday somewhere, it’s time for the Friday Random Ten. Make sure your boss isn’t around, load up all your mp3s to your favorite player, and list the first ten that appear. Rock out in your cubicle and thank your higher-power-of-choice that it’s Friday. Fellow atheists, thank yourself for having the proverbial cajones to [...]
...read morePoetry
Continuing National Poetry Month, I present my favorite poet, Langston Hughes. I have a huge interest in race relations in the United States, because those relations have had such a tremendous impact on our history as a nation. Hughes’ poetry and other writings were explicitly about race relations in the years following the first World [...]
...read moreZubulake
Zubu-what? Zubulake (pronounced, I believe, Zoo-boo-LAH-kie). As the NY Times tells us, this is Laura Zubulake. She won. Now, for you, this happened today. But I’m a litigator, and though I’m not involved in the case, this has been happening for two years. Why? Because UBS, her employer, screwed around with e-mails to hide the [...]
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