On happy engagement vs false positives: “Believing in yourself is fine. Earnest exhortations to have a positive attitude, however, are not very useful, because a positive attitude cannot be willed into existence. If crippling negative thoughts are dominating your inner monologue, you cannot just replace them with a different, more positive sort of self talk.”
Oh, the annoying earnestness of the health nuts!
“Sometimes one or another guy in one of my classes hangs around after class and doesn’t say anything but sort of looks sideways at me and I sort of smile at him, encouraging him to ask a question or make a comment or something. But he doesn’t say anything, and I gather my notebooks and walk out; and he follows me for a little, at some distance, and then, rather sadly, goes his way.” This happens to me, too! Students sometimes are unwilling to break the magic of the classroom as soon as the class ends.
Where is the harm in plagiarism?
Why housing co-ops keep failing: “Sadly, in too many cases — and I could cite other disasters but do not wish to get sued — the co-op experiment has all-too-often proven that most people are too busy with their lives to act as effective part-time administrators of something as complicated as running a big apartment building and the results have, as a result, been far from ideal.”
Boards of trustees are like sausages. But not in the good sense.
Masturbation strategies for women. When I was younger, I would get together with female friends, we would watch movies with female masturbation scenes filmed by clueless men, and laugh our heads off. This is why I believe this post might be very helpful for many people.
Trying to scare people with the terrifying word “Liberal.” Ooh, I’m shaking in my purple furry slippers.
Is there anything more ridiculous than ethics courses in business school?
Plagiarism fallacies. I have no idea why so many people defend plagiarism. Avoiding plagiarism is extremely easy: you simply have to avoid any intellectual sloppiness and you will never become a plagiarist.
Disgusting advertisement from Best Friends Animal Society. What is it with the pro-animal organizations that they invariably turn to promoting sexism?
Have you read about this? Femen, now Paris-based, decided to disturb an overwhelmingly large anti-gay protest . As a response, they and some journalists were beaten, chased and kicked by the protesters. I wrote about it here: http://disciplineandanarchy.wordpress.com/2012/11/19/anti-gay-bullies-show-their-true-colours-and-its-no-rainbow/
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Take action and help send an escapee from Q/CP to college.
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I looked at another episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. This one angered me because it used domestic violence as a premise for a plot line in such a way that it conveniently ignored the realities surrounding such issues.
And wrote Eating Inquisition about a line of strange and rude food questioning from someone who was more or less a stranger.
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I just about died laughing at this article: http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/24/my-take-searching-for-god-settling-for-sex/?hpt=hp_c2
Of course my next thought was “Clarissa would write a hilarious post about this article.” Enjoy!
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Yes, the article is phenomenal. I’m writing about it right now. Thanks for the link!!
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Yay! I look forward to it!
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It is scheduled to appear today at 8:20 pm.
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“Masturbation strategies for women. When I was younger, I would get together with female friends, we would watch movies with female masturbation scenes filmed by clueless men, and laugh our heads off.”
Couldn’t they have just asked the actress how it was done? I mean, why didn’t she say anything?
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From what I’ve heard, you need to be an absolute super-mega-star to get the right to offer your perspective to the director. One Oscar isn’t enough to get there. And this is something that needs to be specified in the contract, otherwise actors don’t get the right to say a word to question the director’s vision.
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Ooooo. Thanks for the shout out.
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Professor Discovers Racial Profiling In Online Ads:
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