Thanks, Ms. Palin, for not running. I didn’t think you had a chance, but I’m just so fucking happy that I don’t have to hear your stupid voice whenever I turn on NPR. Again, thank you! You’re the best!!!
Archive for the ‘Politics’ category
Thursday playlist: 10 recent gripes
Ten recent gripes: 1.) Aging 2.) American people’s opposition to Progressive Taxation. How did so many Americans reach the conclusion that it is not the role of goverment to correct economic injustice? It makes me sick that lofty principals of limited government trump the equally lofty principals of economic fairness. America is so weird. 3.) [...]
Nine / Twelve: let the cynicism begin
I don’t know what kind of neighborhood you live in, but I live in one that is owned, not by the residents or even the banks, but by a bunch of realtors. On most days, I can expect that a member of this cadre will place a magnetic calendar or some other such piece of [...]
The new worst thing I’ve ever heard on NPR
This all started when I decided to do some yoga this summer. I bought a mat for $5.98 at Lot-Less and watched a video on streaming Netflix to learn the sun salutation. And this morning I thought it would be a good idea to run through some sun salutations and relax into the day. Problem [...]
What is it you want?
After the ball was over, after the break of morn, after the dancers’ leaving, after the stars were gone…it was about forty eight hours before I read my first piece of Internet verbiage about how the goal of marriage is an assimilationist one and how saddened the writer was to have her queerness coöpted. And [...]
Happy interdependence day!
Here’s to the founders of the United States (before it was called such), those revolutionary people who had the courage to move forward in breaking away from Great Britain, knowing that if they failed, death by hanging awaited. As someone who teaches one of the more important revolutionary documents, “Common Sense,” I’d like to point [...]
Yea or Nay?
1. Fingertoe shoes: Orthopedically sensational invention that cool people wear? Or fashion disaster? 2. X-Men: Moving allegory for discrimination in our nation’s history? Or goofy comic-book franchise? 3. Anthony Weiner: Resign? Or stay? 4. Lance Armstrong: Doper? Or unfairly maligned champion? 5. Edible gift for Father’s Day? Or… a tie?:
Yet another high-water mark
It may have been because I hadn’t slept well the night before, but a couple of days ago, while I was riding the subway to work, a newspaper article about state parks almost brought tears to my eyes. And not near-tears of joy, or of wistful memories of childhood trips. The article just made me [...]
In or out?
If your collection of Facebook Friends is similar to mine, you’ve probably been seeing these lately: I’m not in. Rather than an exhaustive list of why I’m not happy with the Obama administration, let me give you just a few illustrative points: – Failure to prosecute Bush administration officials for torture and other crimes. – [...]
Widening gyre
This whole month, both of my literature classes have turned into discussions of what defines the human and what we assume that humans deserve by being human. We’re reading a lot of 18th-century stuff on colonialism and slavery, so it keeps coming up, even if I fear that the conversation is getting wide of strictly [...]
