President Obama would rather read any stupid hack in the world than anything written by a woman.
Rewriting the Bible to make it more palatable to people of a certain political persuasion. I’ll leave it to you to guess which persuasion that is.
Canada’s Supreme Court makes brothels legal.
A brilliant reading of Disney’s Frozen by an autistic.
Most people diagnosed with depression don’t even meet the diagnostic criteria. The doctors are in such a rush to foist a scrip on them that they don’t stop to consider the symptoms.
It is shocking that this completely idiotic piece on LinkedIn has been declared one of the best pieces of business journalism in 2013. These days, the way to get hits, likes, pageviews and awards is by declaring that everything sucks, any effort or activity is useless, and the best thing one can do is to avoid even trying to do anything. Except read defeatist, wallowing articles, of course.
How the cuts in SNAP benefits have impacted one teacher’s students. This is a very good post, do read it.
“The demands for change must be en masse, just as the civil rights movement was. So how tired are we of gun violence? Fed up enough to force our leaders to get off their duffs and make the changes the public demands? This may be a long, long struggle.” This is absolutely true. We need a very strong and massive public determination to change the situation.
Why do some academics run out of breath? The post is about STEM fields but I find it relevant to the Humanities, as well.
Google+ is creating confusion and tries to mess up people’s blogs. I hate Google+ and hope never to have to join it.
“I always get asked, “Where do you get your confidence?” I think people are well meaning, but it’s pretty insulting. Because what it means to me is, “You, Mindy Kaling, have all the trappings of a very marginalized person. You’re not skinny, you’re not white, you’re a woman. Why on earth would you feel like you’re worth anything?”” The real mystery is how anybody can confuse this sad creature with a confident person.
And another important post on why the impending demise of Canada Post is a very very bad sign.
On corporate Communism: “This is Harper’s Communism. Paying lip service to small business but abandoning small business in favor of large corporations. Getting rid of the Wheat Bord was to help muscle out the small private farmer and aid the large corporate monopolies. Gwyn Morgan and Stephen Harper like to do a lot of name calling, trash talking and pointing the finger but the truth is, they are the Leninists not the people who pay taxes, care about the environment, support individual rights and freedoms and oppose trade agreements that erode national sovereignty. Throwing away the Bill of Rights is the final step.” I know there are many posts on Canada in this lineup but Canada is turning in a very bad direction these days. We need to be paying attention and not allow the traditional winter somnolence get the best of our Northern neighbors.
The best line to have come out of the whole “Let’s racially profile Santa and Jesus” campaign was this: “Of course, worrying about what color Jesus was is sort of, like, missing the whole point of Jesus. Just sayin’.”
Do check out this absolutely hilarious curriculum used by homeschoolers. It’s extremely funny right to the point when you realize that this is what some poor kids get in lieu of an education.
“Muslim staff working for Marks & Spencer have been given permission to refuse to serve customers buying alcohol or pork products.” And tomorrow religious fanatics will be allowed not to sell birth control or offer medical assistance to people of whose religion or behavior they disapprove. Welcome back to the Dark Ages, UK!
It is very important that we all join in shaming universities that engage in horrible and abusive hiring practices. Please read this post on egregious behavior of UC Riverside.
Rebecca Schuman is surprised that the Tenured Radical is bullying her. I’m not surprised, though, because the memory of TR getting on my case over absolutely nothing important is still fresh in my mind.
And the post of the week: “The Kansas Board of Regents. . . recently voted, unanimously, to deny every single employee of a Kansas university the right to blog, Facebook or Tweet under their real name.” If you are not appalled, then I don’t know what’s ailing you. ANY faculty member can be fired for posting, blogging or tweeting something that a brainless bureaucrat happens to disagree with. Got it? Bye-bye, academic freedom, bye-bye, intelligent blogging, bye-bye, freedom of speech.
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Thank you for the link and reading suggestions!
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Your posts are always great. 🙂
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“bye-bye, freedom of speech”
It’s been obvious that the west is fleeing from freedom of speech at light speed (from donglegate through pax-gate, africa-gate and duck-gate)
That it’s being done in the name of progressive values is obscene.
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OK, I get the africa-gate and duck-gate (probably because they are very recent). But I have a hard time figuring out donglegate and pax-gate.
I agree with the sentiment, however. Africa-gate and duck-gate are completely disgraceful. It’s a good thing I can still say this on my blog.
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Donglegate was the Adria Richards(?) affair last March and Pax-gate was about Pax Dickinson, some tech guy at a high profile that some people got fired because of ‘offensive’ tweets (half of which were parody and one of which was a quote from Mel Gibson which the people who got him fired didn’t realize)
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Gosh, I do remember the Adria Richards thing. I even blogged about it: https://clarissasblog.com/2013/03/22/fired-for-jokes-and-for-reporting-jokes/ And this: https://clarissasblog.com/2013/03/23/workers-rights-lose-out-to-gender-wars/
I remember distinctly how many idiotic piece were published on this subject. Brrr.
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Cultural leftism has to go. And all so that real leftism can take its place. Mike and I were overhearing a radio conversation last night where some journalist and anti-alcohol activist spoke about how young women simply consumed too much alcohol because “that was their environment”. It has to be taken away.
It’s the Women’s Christian Temperance Movement, all over again, says Mike.
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When I was at the hospital, one thing that entertained me a little was an article in the NYTimes where the author said that after a system of opposing gender discrimination at Harvard Business School was implemented, female students were drinking alcohol and partying. The idea seems to have been that women who are not oppressed immediately become alcoholics. 🙂
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Yes, the narrative of the extreme right is that once our oppression is lifted, we wander around in small circles not knowing what to do, but eventually taking to booze and a dissipated lifestyle. I can heartily recommend both.
In other news, it has become apparent that the cultural critics of the left and the right are now only walking in small circles. Every time I see a critique, the solution being offered is not new or well-considered but has to do with some kind of folksy notion about how “things used to be okay in the past.”
It would be very interesting if people began using their intellects, but having a thinking mind is not automatic, but requires all sorts of fortuitous events to combine, like having a propensity, like needing to know something for fear of living the rest of your life in ignorance and so on.
Most people don’t see it that way at all, but work with what they have, which hasn’t been developed into anything yet.
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The beginning of my New Year’s assault. Die, mofos!!!!! 🙂
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And I think Facebook has a rule against having an account under anything but your real name, so the employees are basically forbidden from using Facebook.
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Given that at least half of university services and committees these days require Facebook, this will create a serious problem for many people who are simply trying to work.
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Aww thanks for linking, Clarissa! 🙂 A few days back when you were bemoaning the lack of movie choices at your theater, I was going to suggest you go see it. I’m not sure it’s your type of movie, but I really enjoyed it…
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I was sure I didn’t want to see Frozen but after your review I really want to see it. 🙂
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Hahaa… well, don’t hope for too much. I think our tastes in fiction are very very different. 😛 But if you like singing… I’d be interested in what you think if you do see it. 🙂
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In light of your recent post on escapism and fantasy in films, I’m sharing this video, which shows how many lives the main character from the action movie Die Hard would probably need just to get through the movie:
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