Stop posting color posters on line in .pdf and sending me the link, asking me to [print out and] post these. Stop posting brochures to websites and e-mailing them to me for distribution. Send me paper. If you are not going to take care of printing and distribution of paper materials yourself, post the information … More If it is a broadside, post it on a wall
When I graduated from college I was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and I accepted, because it was prestigious. I did not expect to join another honor society but at this university I have been invited to several and have essentially had to say yes since not to do so would be impolite / because … More Honor Societies
Everyone should experience New Orleans Mardi Gras and I thought the right song by Martinho da Vila might be allusive enough to pass on the feeling. I found a good rhythm but these lyrics and video, while not Carnavalesque, are news and history and should be disseminated. When this wave passes, I will take you … More Quando essa onda passar
The fulls are all married to high school teachers and there is a certain feeling of comfort and ease they exude at work when they are in the company of secretaries and MA instructors only. The happiness and control, the air of intimacy, the feeling that now all is right with the world, the teenagers … More Sexism
We are arguing about whether women who do not agree with the church position, or who are often not even Catholic, should be denied health care coverage that everyone else gets because their employer has a religious objection to it. If so, what happens if an employer belongs to a religion that forbids certain types … More My religion? Anticlericalism.
More on the Dominican theme. I don’t remember the US backed coup of 1963, but I do remember the US backed invasion of 1965, when we were also putting Mobutu Sese Seko into the Congo and escalating in Viet Nam. I cannot believe people witnessed these things, yet did not understand the drumbeat that led … More Juan Bosch
My understanding is this: with narcissism the core problem is that no solid identity actually formed inside of the person. So instead they make up who they would like to be in their head and then write a script for themselves for how they are supposed to act and how others are supposed to act … More A definition of narcissism
Tax havens are not exotic, murky sideshows at the fringes of the world economy: they lie at its centre. Half of world trade flows, at least on paper, through tax havens. Every multinational corporation uses them routinely. The biggest users of tax havens by far are not terrorists, spivs, celebrities or Mafiosi – but banks. … More Nicholas Shaxon
For a great many poor people in America, particularly poor black men, prison is a destination that braids through an ordinary life, much as high school and college do for rich white ones. More than half of all black men without a high-school diploma go to prison at some time in their lives. Mass incarceration … More Why criticism of the prison industrial complex is important
I am very happy, and I just finished something. Contrary to popular opinion, I think it is often necessary to just sit down and do something until it is finished, without thinking about anything else. Otherwise I lose my train of thought and spend a great deal of time retracing my steps. I wonder whether … More Yet More Contrarian Academic Advice
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