Dear Department Chair, It is true what you say, that I believe my opinion on this matter is more valid, and should hold more weight than your sidekick’s. The reason for this, however, is not that I have more degrees and a higher rank than does your sidekick. The reason is that I read book … More Practicing for next year.
You have to consider the idea of the anti-nation. This is in that Sanjinés book to which I am currently addicted. Axé.
People keep trying to figure out what they would do if they could afford it, but I have known for a very long time — enroll in a JD program and prepare to work upon, that is to say against the global prison industrial complex. My LSAT score is not as competitive as my GRE … More Ce que je ferais
An event. A father who speaks long. A family which does not have care and whose child is at the event. A child who interrupts his father. A child bored. A father who allows his child to interrupt. A father who says son, I am talking. A father who says audience, I am sorry, it … More Love in the provinces
We did not get our grant and were in fact rated 20th out of 35 proposals. We received 76 points, with 70 being the minimum required for funding; some people received many fewer; nonetheless we were rated 20th. Only the first 8 were funded. Things wrong with us are, allegedly: a) our university already provides … More Bad, bad agency!
A friend writes: “[T]he regime of signs that is used to define truth institutionally here is facing a fundamental crisis of legitimacy. [Limitations on privacy, reporting, and free speech] are not the moves of a healthy polity. Behind all of this some incredibly insidious forces are at play. They do not want [information to be … More Quotation
So it is Easter again, time to rise again, and so I shall. This is Oludumare, breathing peace into us after a terrible week. My week was terrible because of religiosity and machismo. It began on the wrong note, as I went to church on Palm Sunday because a colleague was singing. One likes to … More Olodumare, or Easter of Self-Respect
Václav Havel is one of the people about whom I do not know enough. The Nation had a piece on Havel and Occupy, quoting interesting texts by him from the sixties and seventies that shed shocking light on the present moment. I would like to point to it and read it again. Eventually it will … More Václav Havel
So, today I snapped at, that is to say, spoke sharply to someone. What they had done: – tell me to do something I didn’t want to do – call me up and order me to choose one of two highly inconvenient meeting times; in response to my question, are these the only times the … More That cornered feeling
Listen closely: Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 