A New Whiteman
20/10/2008
HYPERBOLIZED FOR HUMOROUS EFFECT PZ: You want me to engage in a major service project to benefit you, and you will stay here if I succeed within three years? Who are you, again? Axé.
Category: Da Whiteman
Those Big, Bright, Gumdrop Unicorns, or New Assistant Professors
18/10/2008
Dear Gumdrop Unicorns, When you tell me that if our department has not, within three years, accomplished the things you would like it to accomplish, you will go on the market, all I can really think of to say is start now. If what you want done is to be accomplished in five years, concrete … More Those Big, Bright, Gumdrop Unicorns, or New Assistant Professors
Chola soy, y no me compadezcan. Jacques Derrida. Paroles en liberté
16/10/2008
Now I am writing a pre-piece of my new book and trying not to ignite my usual set of literary academic writing reactions, having to do with wishing I had always been doing more of this, and also wishing that when I decided I preferred to move on from it that I had honored my … More Chola soy, y no me compadezcan. Jacques Derrida. Paroles en liberté
Some New Whitemen
13/10/2008
The principal whiteman of this hour is, of course, the McCain/Palin campaign. Momo has a relevant post, and the Anxious Black Woman has another. Fortunately Christopher Buckley, William F. Buckley’s son, sees beyond the Republican smoke bombs and says this: Obama has in him—I think, despite his sometimes airy-fairy “We are the people we have … More Some New Whitemen
Alert. En Vida
07/10/2008
Everyone needs your time and money right now, I know. But it is important to DEFEAT MEASURE 11 IN SOUTH DAKOTA and women there need your help. Consider it, and consider phone banking for Obama this weekend. One point of phone banking now is to get people to vote early – that is that much … More Alert. En Vida
Some Yankee Whitemen
07/10/2008
So the whitemen here are a female perfume seller in a mall and her supervisor. They are true Yankees, a Yankee being someone who rode the Mayflower to New England and has been there ever since. King Arthur is a professor from a foreign country. King Arthur: One bottle of Hermes perfume, please. Whiteman: You … More Some Yankee Whitemen
On Precariousness and Destabilization
06/10/2008
Now animated by a yogic comment from Hattie, I can keep on saying things and drawing pictures, these always having been some of my first goals in life. The immediate additional causes of my current malaise: a) so many students, including graduate students, need remedial work, but we are keeping up a certain fiction … … More On Precariousness and Destabilization
Voy a hablar de la esperanza
06/10/2008
Voy a hablar de la esperanza. HOY SUFRO SOLAMENTE As we know, I am a working man, although if I were a male academic I might not have all the same duties as I do. That, precisely, is why I am a working man in old fashioned terms: a working man works on an assembly … More Voy a hablar de la esperanza
Sexism Is
06/10/2008
When you are really having problems, nobody believes that you are suffering. When you are all right and working things out on your own, nobody believes that you are not disturbed and suffering. That is from a brilliant and hilarious post by Ballasexitenz. Reeducation thought it was wrong that I should be an intellectual and … More Sexism Is
Bernie Sanders
05/10/2008
He said in part, in a letter to Paulson: “Any plan to clean up the mess on Wall Street must: “1. Ensure that middle income and working families are not the ones who are paying for this bailout by “a. Imposing a five-year, 10 percent surtax on income over $1 million a year for couples … More Bernie Sanders
coldhearted scientist وداد 