Archive for November, 2008
At A Truly Elegant Mess: Who wakes up and says “I wish I could be oppressed too”?
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According to GenderAnalyzer, this blog is male. The Gender Genie agrees – and both clock out the blog’s maleness at 65%. I guess the 35% is when the blog bakes cookies and paints its toenails on the weekend?
Meanwhile, Typealyzer analyzes your blog’s Myers-Briggs type. The blog is an INTP, which amuses me, [...]
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White-People Culture
Brilliant post here: White People Think That People of Colour Have More Culture.
The last time one of my friends (see “Letter to a Racist Friend”, below) said she “had no culture,” I very nearly started shouting “Lattes! Pencil skirts! Shania Twain! The Simpsons! Home on the Range! What the [...]
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My Brain as Blackwell’s Island
I’m a cranky critter today, but so far it has nothing to do with the office. It has everything to do with the fact that the rheumatologist wants me off Effexor XR and on Cymbalta, so I’m taking today off both, pursuant to his orders. And once again, I didn’t think the Effexor XR was [...]
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“Freedom”
Google Reader has a game it likes to play with me. I will start kicking around a topic, usually in the shower, and just begin thinking, “you know, there’s a blog post there.” Then I will check Reader during my morning breakfast-and-blogreading…and there’s a blog post on that very topic.
Reader did it again [...]
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Can’t get much closer: I’ve been ableist-oppressing myself. Way to go, brain.
I am, and always have been, one of those Type-A, driven, overachieving bastards you meet on the first morning of kindergarten and before snacktime comes you’ve already tied their pigtails round a flagpole. And until a few years ago, I didn’t know [...]
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Dear Friend,
This is not a letter I wanted to write. In writing it, I am taking two positions simultaneously; I am arguing, in a sense, as two different people, even though I am only one person. I have struggled for years over whether I even have a right to argue from both sides [...]
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I do this post about once every four months, in some form, and I never mind doing it. Not only is the Constitutional right to privacy arguably the most important right currently at issue in the U.S., it’s also one of the most endlessly fascinating – often, precisely because it’s so controversial.
First: no, you [...]
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I’d do this entire post in other people’s quotes, but it wouldn’t make much sense.
So, Obama’s election is great; Prop 8 sucks. As digby notes, “It’s as if we just can’t be America unless we are taking active steps to marginalize somebody.”
And now I’m very confused. On the one hand, California is telling [...]
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Morning In America
Dear fellow Conservative-Americans,
Let me be the first to welcome you to the United Socialist States of Fascist Baby-Eaters. Yes, we are both socialist and fascist. How? Easy! The first rule of the United Socialist States of Fascist Baby-Eaters is YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT THE UNITED SOCIALIST STATES OF FASCIST BABY-EATERS!
The second rule is “more [...]
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