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Archive for March, 2008
Is this genuine or parody?
Regardless, it had me laughing out loud for, like, two minutes.
via The Unapologetic Mexican
Lifted from the comments, this short history lesson by the ever-brilliant La Lubu:
Here’s a thought: reinterpretation. Take this quote for example, “In 1999 congressional testimony, Isabel Sawhill of the Brookings Institution said that the increase in single-parent families—mostly due to unwed motherhood in the past few decades—”can account for virtually all of the increase in […]
The Real Problem With Single Parents Is That They Don’t Feel Enough Judgement and Self-Doubt
Published March 22nd, 2008 in Feminism, Marriage, Parenthood and Relationships. 22 CommentsJudging from her latest piece, Emily Yoffe, Slate’s advice columnist, is going after Dear Abby’s job. Incensed that Dear Abby stole her advice thunder by insisting that the rape of one man’s sleeping wife is obviously a big ol’ lie, Yoffe tried to up the ante by writing a concern troll piece on single […]
The tentative vegetarianism of my youth was more a comment on my ability to get grossed out than any socio-political commitment. Another reason, one that still stays with me, is that I don’t want to benefit from or wallow in another living being’s pain (save your healthy dose of schadenfreude). I love bacon, […]
I came home tonight ready to blog about how thrilling it is that the Democratic presidential candidates are campaigning in Indiana for the first time in my memory, and how much this will galvanize Hoosier liberals, but my wrist is really fucking bothering me. I think the real problem was rediscovering how much I […]
Just chatted with a geek friend who seems to think my irritated wrist and forearm is the beginning of carpal tunnel syndrome. I’m at the point where I can’t type or use the mouse at my computer at home (after doing so at work all day) for more than thirty minutes before my right […]
Subversive grannies take knitting to the streets:
Marie Runyon, who turns 93 on Thursday, was one of the arrested and acquitted grannies, and spoke proudly of her two antiwar grandchildren. Carrying two canes and wearing a plastic foldable rain hat, she suggested, loudly and saltily, that the nearby counterprotesters should be quiet.
“Give Iraq our Constitution, […]
Recommended Reads through March 17th
Published March 18th, 2008 in Good Reads and Round Up. 3 CommentsWhat you should read since I’m not writing:
Photoshop Brushes - Free Photoshop brushes.
Fontennium - Best free historical fonts.
Fonts 500 - Top 500 free fonts with custom preview.
The 10 Worst Products For Men Ever Created -
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Opcion Font Viewer - Free font viewer for Windows, Mac, and Linux -
Art […]
Happy Pi Day!
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