January 2012
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Does She Love You? - The Morning News →
If she knows what song is coming next on the mix CD you made her: She loves you.
If she hides your shoes when you’re late for work, and from a supine position on the couch plays “Hot/Cold,” and, finally, after 15 minutes of you ignoring her screaming, “Boiling! Burning up!” every time you stalk angrily by the dishwasher, gets up, flips it open to reveal the shoes, sitting there among the...
December 2011
12 posts
Finishing a 25-page paper at home, over the break
and my little sister asks, “how many paragraphs does it have to be?”
Remember that? When you measured essays in terms of paragraphs? You guys! Remember the 5-paragraph essay?
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I hate my paper so much that I can't even...
Toronto, City of Sissies: Christie Blatchford |... →
Well this is one of the most sexist things I’ve read all year (and is a great example of how sexism hurts everybody, not just women)
It Is Almost Crazy How Much Rick Perry Knows What... →
Nope, I’m not providing you with the video right here because I want you to go over to Videogum (where you belong in the first place) and read Gabe’s commentary. Go!
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Today I just can’t get over how great things are in my life. Today I’m doing research for a paper that I’m really excited to write that’s not due for 2 weeks, and it’s just a treat. Living alone means I control my own distractions. I think I’ll make chili and cornbread tonight. Of course I need a social life sometimes, but on days like this it’s such a...
November 2011
12 posts
What if They Declared an Emergency and No One... →
“It’s been three weeks since Attawapiskat First Nation took the extraordinary step of declaring a state of emergency. Since then, not a single federal or provincial official has even bothered to visit the community.
No aid agencies have stepped forward. No disaster management teams have offered help.
Meanwhile temperatures have dropped 20 degrees and will likely drop another 20 or...
“European cities have had decades to develop cycling cultures. The Dutch and the...”
– Pleasures of Life in the Slow Lane – a manifesto for bike lanes by New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman (via curiositycounts)
October 2011
7 posts
Teacher's College?
Okay, so everybody says there are no high school teaching jobs in Ontario. But can it be worse than trying to find a job after getting a philosophy phd?
I’ve done tonnes of volunteer work in teaching-related areas, but never really considered teaching as a career until I read this book and cried through the whole thing. Majorly inspiring.
So the question is… should I go to...
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September 2011
7 posts
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“Similarly, “the denotation of C” does not mean the denotation we...”
– This is a quote from one of my readings for this week by Russell called, “On Denoting”
Well, I guess this is what my new life as a philosophy grad student is going to be like.
Mindy Kaling: “Flick Chicks” : The New Yorker →
Describing types of women that exist in movies but not real life,
The Ethereal Weirdo:
This girl can’t be pinned down and may or may not show up when you make concrete plans with her. She wears gauzy blouses and braids. She likes to dance in the rain and she weeps uncontrollably if she sees a sign for a missing dog or cat. She might spin a globe, place her finger on a random spot, and decide to...
Hawksley Workman- Autumn’s Here
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“There was a horrific piece of graffiti incised with a knife or leather punch in...”
– David Foster Wallace, from The Pale King
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August 2011
13 posts
I’ve noticed that street harassment is much more frequent in Seattle than in other cities I’ve been to. Maybe 5 times in my whole life has a stranger yelled at my from a car and in Seattle it’s more like 20 times in a day. After being here for a few days, I’ve come to realize that it’s unlike street harassment in other cities in its intentions. Whereas most of the...
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Why "humanism" isn't better than "feminism" →
golden-notebook:
Humanism as a whole does not recognize the uneven power binary that contributes to systematic oppression; acting as though the problems facing different classes of people on the oppressor/oppressed axes are somehow both equal in scope is dismissive and derailing.
I’m sure there are “humanists” out there who understand the way oppressive binaries work; however, the majority...
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