January 2012
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The Way It Was →
“Women of all kinds seek and have always sought abortion: married, single, in their twenties, thirties, and forties, teenagers. Some have no children, some have several already. Some never want children, some want children later. They are churchgoers, atheists, agnostics. They are morally upright pillars of the community, they are prostitutes. They’re promiscuous, they’re...
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oh, if i lived in LA... →
“We don’t record these or live-stream them, so this really makes it special for the people in the room that night. In this Internet age where everything is available to everyone there are so few one-night only experiences, and this is one of them.” - Jason Reitman on his “Live Read” program.
Simon Rich: “Center of the Universe” : The New... →
December 2011
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Shufflin' grandpa →
i love the internet.
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November 2011
7 posts
Soup: Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi →
soupsoup:
18 November 2011
Linda P.B. Katehi,
I am a junior faculty member at UC Davis. I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, and I teach in the Program in Critical Theory and in Science & Technology Studies. I have a strong record of research, teaching, and service. I am currently…
PHOTOS: Occupying Bank of America in SF | Mother... →
all shot on film…love that.
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October 2011
14 posts
Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It →
Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “goingforward,” to borrow the business-speak. Economists are warning that even when the economy recuperates,...
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Images of Occupy Wall Street Everywhere – A... →
so this was going on in the world today. but you wouldn’t know it if you were watching MSM.
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Polaroids →
from occupy wall street. beautiful.
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We have lots of communities in America that have drug use, drug dealing, and no...
– California-based criminologist David Kennedy, discussing why targeting inner-city drug use won’t cut violent crime. Via the Washington Monthly. (via motherjones)
September 2011
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August 2011
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