“You knew me the moment you saw me. You said I see with the wood’s eyes. That’s why you turned to Laurel. You were afraid of me.”
“Rois—” He was trembling; I could hear the leaves rustle around him. “Yes. You seemed to live in the borderlands of the world I tried to escape. You [...]
I’m not sure if this is a new lesson, but [campaigning for the American presidency] reinforced my belief that we’re not as divided as our politics would indicate. You meet with the average person—I don’t care whether they’re Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal—they don’t think in labels. They’re not particularly ideological. Everybody is [...]
Left: Bad magazine cover. Right: Good magazine cover.
Julia Alison, you have done something amazing: You have made it onto my radar. I am absurdly myopic when it comes to Internet celebrities—unless they become targets of criticism on the Huffington Post. All those updates about your crazy lives just fly right over my silly head.
But then haven’t I seen your name tossed [...]
What happens when you give a girl a chance? She can change her community and her life.
Learn how to contribute at GirlEffect.org.
(via Laurie, Servant of Chaos)
I have a problem calling certain racial demographics “white” and “black”. It makes me feel like I should call myself “yellow”, and that’s absolutely ridiculous.
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William Deresiewicz laments in the current issue of American Scholar how the elite institutions of academia—such as the Ivy League—do not prepare their students to interact with people who are not similarly educated. He writes that elite education produces entitlement, mediocrity, and cowardice—always focused on “playing by the rules” to get ahead. Other academic bloggers [...]
Book on McCain and his racist remarks to be released on July 4th. Titled Gook: John McCain’s Racism and Why It Matters. I understand the bitterness that someone can have from a war, but racial slurs are not acceptable under any circumstances. But considering that McCain called his wife a cunt in 1992, [...]
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Posted 20 June 2008
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