January 2010
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Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger →
“He had a real impact on the literary world and on millions of readers,” said hot-shot English professor David Clarke, who is just like the rest of them, and even works at one of those crumby schools that rich people send their kids to so they don’t have to look at them for four years.
“Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren’t they? They’re all in favor...”
– George Carlin. (via cocknbull, rabbleprochoice, howidisappear, apsies, bringmethathorizon) (via obsessionful) (via think4yourself) (via tiffanyincharlotte) (via valdovinos)
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1st week reading list
Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz: 187 pages
John K. Roth, Holocaust: religious and philosophical implications: 25 pages
Susan Stryker, Transgender History: 57 pages
Carlos A. Ball, The Morality of Gay Rights: 40 pages
Leo Tolstoy, What is Art?: 36 pages
Adam Elga, Reflection and Disagreement: 24 pages
On top of other assignments, I had 369 pages of assigned reading for the first week of...
Phi 420: Multicultural & Global Citizenship →
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“Rawlsian liberalism, by itself, proves incapable of providing a coherent...”
– Carlos A. Ball, The Morality of Gay Rights, p 6 (via phi420)
Avatar for Haiti →
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Cindy McCain Joins Campaign in Favor of Gay... →
Avatar was not a movie. It was just a really...
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Are Hipsters Stealing Gay Style? Or Something... →
There is a major difference between hipsters and gays and to overlook it would be dismissing a courageous, vibrant history of a people that fought for autonomy at all costs. Hipsters are defined by a vapid, superficial purely external identity that could emanate from an Excel spreadsheet. Queers are organic, whole, and raw: the expensive fruit at Whole Foods. Our style is a by-product of something...
What REALLY Happened →
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The Five Stages of Lady GaGa Fever
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1. Confusion The first thing you tend to ask when you are confronted with the artist born Stefani Germanotta is who or what is a Lady Gaga? It’s a lot to take at first, and anyone who sees the native New Yorker wearing an outfit made of bubbles or dressed head to toe — literally, head to toe — in red lace might simply shake their head in...
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The Sew Weekly →
The online home of one woman’s project to fill her closet only with clothes she has sewn herself (with a few exceptions) by adding a new, homemade garment to her wardrobe every week.
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I am so blessed.
A guy I work with needs surgery to fix a hernia and has no health insurance. The surgery is upwards of $10,000 without it. Even if he could afford it, he says he has little chance of getting insurance now, because the hernia counts as a pre-existing condition.
The worst part is that his whole job is manual labor, which often irritates the hernia and is making it worse. There is a good possibility...
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checkout lady (scanning baby food): so how old is the baby?
me (confused): excuse me?
checkout lady: how old is the baby?
me: oh, umm. that's actually for me.
checkout lady: ....
me: yeah.
checkout lady: my daughter likes baby food too.
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