Monday was Blogging for Sex Education Day and I did not know, but I know now, and my favorite post on this topic is from Jack’s Non-Blog. It says in part that [s]ex has, for many people, an emotional impact that is rarely discussed logically in any form, and is normally reduced to saccharine conceptions … More Blogging for Sex Education
Why does writing appear to be so closely imbricated with managing the self? This post does not answer that question. I Now I have made a small amount of progress on this paper. I have discovered a way to redefine it, at least for myself, so that it is less intimidating: I will think of … More On Writing: Notes
An important answer to this question is, she does not remember that she has the right. I remember feeling I only had the right to ask for changes. The result was always that I ended up apologizing for having asked. It was excruciating. The point is that I had forgotten I had the right. Before … More Why She Does Not Just Leave
Women do not speak clearly, it is often said. Is this only because we are socialized to be very diplomatic, especially around men? Is it also because men are socialized not to take what we say seriously? Do these two phenomena feed upon each other? Why is there a newspaper article each year exhorting men … More On Women Not Being Clear
It appears that being a nationally recognized wetlands expert and working to save the coastline is not good for an academic career in Louisiana. We can read all about it in the Baton Rouge Daily Advocate. Paul Keddy’s university issued the following press release about him May 2: Southeastern Louisiana University wetlands expert Paul Keddy … More On Academic Freedom
In the Daily Mail today is a precious picture of George W. Bush winking at the Queen. In the Guardian we find Maid Service, an article on the question of corruption. Below are some highlights, with interesting information on contemporary Peru. I have of course bolded the most shocking paragraph. Why is corruption endemic in … More On Inequality and the Origins of Corruption
Nicolas Sarkozy has been elected President of the Republic of France, and he has a triumphalist video. The White House is of course pleased and I, of course, am not. A year or so ago this blog was being attacked by French people opposed to the Iraq war. They said that as an American, I … More Travail, famille, patrie
The Washington Post recently published an interesting article about the U.S. refusal of foreign aid to help offset the effects of Hurricane Katrina. I quote from the complete text: [W]hile television sets worldwide showed images of New Orleans residents begging to be rescued from rooftops as floodwaters rose, U.S. officials turned down countless offers of … More Our Government, Ourselves
On May Day, 2007, the LAPD assaulted immigration reform demonstrators in McArthur Park. For Cinco de Mayo I am channeling Benito Juárez. Axé.
Today I spent seven straight hours teaching four different topics, after getting up very early to finish preparing. At noon I had expected to have lunch and pick something up from Interlibrary Loan in the process. Scheduling was off for technical reasons, and there was no time. I was able to eat because a colleague … More A Rather Internalized Whiteman
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