January 2012
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Sometimes I do things like check my uncle’s Wikipedia page to see if anyone has edited it to reflect my cousin’s death but no, it still says that he lives in Jerusalem with his wife and four children. Which wouldn’t really be true even if Niot was still alive because, as far as I know, none of my cousins still live at home.
I am also probably the only person in the world who...
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I generally take it to be a pretty bad sign when the first week of readings assigned for a course doesn’t include anything authored by a woman.
Danelle Morton: A World on Fire (Boston Review) →
This is a pretty great article about the people who died in the New Orleans squat fire a year ago.
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WHOA DOWNTON ABBEY
THAT ONE MAID DID THAT THING AND MADE THE MAN GET FIRED AND THEN HE CRIED
AND THAT OTHER GUY IS GAY WITH THAT ONE GUY
SO THAT’S WHY EVERYONE IS OBSESSED WITH THIS SHOW
I really did want to go to yoga tonight but there was so much laundry and so much reading, but I started watching this episode when I started sorting laundry and I couldn’t just stop it. So now: reading.
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"I really wish that there was a channel devoted...
(Is a thought that I should not admit to having as often as I do.)
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GRAD SCHOOL
iseebi:
bthny:
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Well, I made it almost a whole two weeks into the semester before becoming incredibly irritated/upset with the way the department and the quality of my education in general.
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Will I ever remember the difference between epistemology and ontology? Can I call myself a true grad student if I stop caring about whether I know the difference?
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I have three 10-20 page articles to read before...
You’d think this wouldn’t be a challenge for me by now, but you also don’t have to slog through super boring shit about health geography theory.
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Op Rescue Brings Its Terror Tactics Online
phillyjourno:
Excerpt from my new Philly Weekly column (full piece here):
Last year, in the wake of the arrest of Kermit Gosnell, Operation Rescue came to town. They met in the basement of St. Agnes Church in West Chester. As PW reported in March, the militant anti-abortion organization was there recruiting volunteers to gather doctors’ names and schedules by pretending to be mothers of...
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My buddy Thomson just told me the most amazing...
thewordunheard:
I had my mouth open the whole time. (It’s not going to be a totally accurate retelling because it’s not my story, but this is how it was told to me.)
Basically, he came home late at night, and while he was looking for a parking space he noticed a guy on a bike. He was wearing a balaclava, which wasn’t that weird because it was really cold. But then he saw that the guy was...
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Ask (Another) Abortion Provider: Roe vs. Wade,... →
This is excellent and everyone should read it, the end.
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white people problems
What kind of coffee shop turns off its internet from 11am-4pm on a Sunday to discourage loiterers when the only other people in the (two story, very roomy) place are a couple and a photographer doing an engagement photo shoot? I mean, I get that it’s bad business to let people to just sit around for hours but we ordered a full brunch and were just getting ready to start doing some work when...
IMPORTANT BULLETIN
MY BOYFRIEND’S MOTHER IS GOING TO PAY FOR US TO GO ON A SEGWAY TOUR IN DC NEXT WEEKEND
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PAUL RUDD! PAUL RUDD! PAUL RUDD!
PAUL RUDD! PAUL RUDD! PAUL RUDD!
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Dangerous abortions 'on the rise', says WHO →
nebraska-admiral:
thewordunheard:
The World Health Organization study suggests global abortion rates are steady, at 28 per 1,000 women a year.
However, the proportion of the total carried out without trained clinical help rose from 44% in 1995 to 49% in 2008.
HEY NO SHIT. Because when you restrict access to abortions, you are not eliminating abortions. You are making them unsafe for...
"And there is pressure in many teenage... →
You know, maybe shutting down the internet isn’t such a terrible idea.
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Reblog if it's okay to befriend you, ask...
Oh my god please don’t. In fact, why are you all here? Go away. Oh god.
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I need more “chill” music. The problem is that I’m not really into that kind of thing (“chillwave”) and the stuff that I do have isn’t always good for the situations in which I need to be chilling.
My traditional “chill” go-to is I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One by Yo La Tengo and lately I’ve been listening to a lot of On the Water by...
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wait, how do I teach myself how to play this thing? I tuned it with an iPhone app but now what
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So You Just Signed Up for LinkedIn
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"great job, internet"
should never, ever be said in reference to anything but cute animal pictures/videos.
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Oh, it’s still not 10pm?
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alliterated:
Songs: Ohia — John Henry Split My...
Today is going to be a very, very long day.
Waiting for a flight that isn’t supposed to land until 10pm and hoping for no delays; long drives to beach houses late at night. Will attempt to occupy my time with work and yoga. Unsure of how successful I’ll be.