09 March 2012
08 March 2012
DAY ONE HUNDRED AND NINE
slate.com is coming through with some amazing stories. here's one about sugar daddies and sugar babies... really interesting.
another interesting one is this, about the pro-choice re-awakening. it's a really well-written piece on the hypocrisy, double standards and paternalism rampant through society regarding women. From the article, which I highly recommend you read:
never thought i would miss being part of msu's womyn's council, but there it is.
another interesting one is this, about the pro-choice re-awakening. it's a really well-written piece on the hypocrisy, double standards and paternalism rampant through society regarding women. From the article, which I highly recommend you read:
But when those officials, and the mouthpieces of their movement, make plain their belief that you are a dumb slut without the right to bodily autonomy, simply for being female, women can connect the dots...
The Rush Limbaughs of the world don’t get to define the boundaries of appropriate sexual or moral behavior. But something is happening: Women are defining those boundaries for themselves, with many men alongside them, and they’re being reminded that there’s a concerted movement to take that right of self-definition away. And we’re mad.
never thought i would miss being part of msu's womyn's council, but there it is.
DAY ONE HUNDRED AND NINE
THIS IS MY NEW FAVORITE VIDEO AND SONG EVER AND I AM IN LOVE WITH IT. i listened to it 8 times yesterday, which is less than gotye, but still an impressive showing for one day.
i've decided what to do with my life, which is a relief. m-b-a all the way!
this is the group that everyone loves to hate. in fact, after my grand showing last night, i've been invited to join the haters club tonight. haters gotta hate! officemate has loved to hate them for a while. it's kinda like peta, in that it uses horrible media tactics to raise awareness, but a little less like peta in that it's in ukraine and god the world sucks for those poor women, more than it even does living in a country like turkey. so women have to try out to be in this protest group, and are picked based on their beauty alone. horrible, no? well, here they are, protesting in a very strange way. makes me laugh quite a bit.
uzbekistan banned wiki, as noted in this very funny article. also, nightwish is *not* a good band.
this is how i feel about living here most of the time.
have you made it happen yet? watch the inspirational video here.
i've decided what to do with my life, which is a relief. m-b-a all the way!
this is the group that everyone loves to hate. in fact, after my grand showing last night, i've been invited to join the haters club tonight. haters gotta hate! officemate has loved to hate them for a while. it's kinda like peta, in that it uses horrible media tactics to raise awareness, but a little less like peta in that it's in ukraine and god the world sucks for those poor women, more than it even does living in a country like turkey. so women have to try out to be in this protest group, and are picked based on their beauty alone. horrible, no? well, here they are, protesting in a very strange way. makes me laugh quite a bit.
uzbekistan banned wiki, as noted in this very funny article. also, nightwish is *not* a good band.
this is how i feel about living here most of the time.
have you made it happen yet? watch the inspirational video here.
07 March 2012
DAY ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHT
officemate is ill today so the first part of the day is really boring and filled with silence and longing looks at her desk, wishing someone were here. but then she came!!
look who made it into turkish newspapers!
i think this guy is a moron. i mean, what an idiot. i know someone who'd get along with him, though, perhaps arguing that because rape fantasies exist, that means rape culture ok!
one of my favorite short vegans got voted out of office after redistricting :(
look who made it into turkish newspapers!
i think this guy is a moron. i mean, what an idiot. i know someone who'd get along with him, though, perhaps arguing that because rape fantasies exist, that means rape culture ok!
one of my favorite short vegans got voted out of office after redistricting :(
06 March 2012
DAY ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN
"I wonder how many women in the world he could make happy. I mean, the world's a big place, so it's going to be a large number, but comparatively? I mean comparatively?" - words of wisdom from a disgruntled friend
Beginning in the early 1900s, the US government minted $20 gold coins designed by Saint-Gaudens. They were never released, and by the Great Depression, Americans were hoarding their gold coins and depleting all gold stocks, fearful the dollar would crash. The US government issued a directive disallowing such hoarding and demanding citizens return such gold. The $20 coins, which had never been released, were to be melted down and stored in Fort Knox. However, not all of them were returned: several went to private buyers, including one to King Farouk of Egypt. That coin was eventually auctioned off for US $7.6 million. Ten more were found a decade ago. This is the story of those coins and the extreme measures the government has taken to recover them.
Lawrence v. Texas overturned Bowers v. Hardwick, coming on the heels of Romer v. Evans. All great cases to know the history of, and to harshly judge Scalia by, but the New Yorker history of Lawrence contains all sorts of facts that I never knew, like that Lawrence and Garner weren't even a couple. Some of the better quotes from it:
And here's another article about Bob Kerrey, the senator from Nebraska who was one of the sole senators - from a very unusual state - to oppose the DOMA. It looks like he participated in the slaughter of women and children back in Vietnam. For some more light reading, read about the My Lai Massacre.
Beginning in the early 1900s, the US government minted $20 gold coins designed by Saint-Gaudens. They were never released, and by the Great Depression, Americans were hoarding their gold coins and depleting all gold stocks, fearful the dollar would crash. The US government issued a directive disallowing such hoarding and demanding citizens return such gold. The $20 coins, which had never been released, were to be melted down and stored in Fort Knox. However, not all of them were returned: several went to private buyers, including one to King Farouk of Egypt. That coin was eventually auctioned off for US $7.6 million. Ten more were found a decade ago. This is the story of those coins and the extreme measures the government has taken to recover them.
Lawrence v. Texas overturned Bowers v. Hardwick, coming on the heels of Romer v. Evans. All great cases to know the history of, and to harshly judge Scalia by, but the New Yorker history of Lawrence contains all sorts of facts that I never knew, like that Lawrence and Garner weren't even a couple. Some of the better quotes from it:
Does it matter that, in Justice Kennedy’s stirring meditation on privacy and dignity and the “manifold possibilities” of liberty, the truth of the non-relationship between the non-lovers John Lawrence and Tyron Garner was lost? Does it matter that our collective memory locks the two men together in a mythic embrace? The plaintiffs who seek redress at the Supreme Court are rarely as polished as the movie versions that the Court can bring itself to love. But it’s rare that they disappear altogether, the way Lawrence and Garner did.
“Sodomy” was, for centuries, a crime defined by its unspeakable nature. The eighteenth-century British legal commentator William Blackstone called it a crime “not fit to be named,” which takes you only so far when it comes to drafting a ban.
Justice Lewis Powell, Jr., the swing vote in the 1986 Bowers decision, was seventy-eight when the case reached the high court. Baffled, he told his clerk, “I don’t believe I’ve ever met a homosexual.” That clerk, as it turns out, was gay.And the argument officemate beat me on (or picked up at least one ballot - can't remember) when my teammate and I were arguing to repeal DADT back in the day:
Already there is enormous anxiety among gay-rights activists over which vehicle is better, whether the Court is ready to make this profound change in the definition of marriage, and whether, even if the Court allows gay marriage, it will launch a national backlash that will end up curbing gay progress in America in the long run.
And here's another article about Bob Kerrey, the senator from Nebraska who was one of the sole senators - from a very unusual state - to oppose the DOMA. It looks like he participated in the slaughter of women and children back in Vietnam. For some more light reading, read about the My Lai Massacre.
05 March 2012
DAY ONE HUNDRED AND SIX
it's weird that this article depicts cuidad juarez as a safe city until 2008 given the really high murder rate of maquiladora workers happening years before this.
this is hideous, from the turkish groupon.
d.b. cooper, the hijacker who got away. i didn't know anything about it!
and finally, another interesting piece. it's weird how much i've been reading about sports lately. and onto espn's 52 best articles.
this is hideous, from the turkish groupon.
d.b. cooper, the hijacker who got away. i didn't know anything about it!
and finally, another interesting piece. it's weird how much i've been reading about sports lately. and onto espn's 52 best articles.
03 March 2012
DAY ONE HUNDRED AND FIVE
malice at the palace. an amazing oral history of one of my favorite sports games ever.
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