January 2012
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“The Court refrains from second-guessing the expressed motives of the Committee...”
– Judge Ronald Lagueux, ruling in Alquist vs City of Cranston, Jan 11, 2012 (pdf).  Jessica Alquist protested an overtly Christian prayer banner hung at her school. The school district not only refused to remove the unconstitutional prayer banner, they refused a compromise offered by Alquist to...
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“I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Neat in their boxes, dolor of...”
– Theodore Roethke, Dolor, 1943
Jan 19th
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“To loosen with all ten fingers held wide and limber And lift up a patch,...”
– Theodore Roethke, Moss-Gathering, 1944
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“It’s pretty [bad] when a story written over 120 years ago has better gender...”
– Irene Adler: how to butcher a brilliant woman character « Another angry woman (Spoilers) Stavvers expresses the same issues I have with Sherlock 2.1* — 80 minutes of breezily enjoyable, followed by 9:30 of “oh, um, no … that can’t be right” and 30 seconds of...
Jan 9th
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Fire, cars, breast implants, immigration, and a Beverly Hills real estate attorney who moonlights as a deputy sheriff. If an angle involving surfing or reality TV turns up, I’ll win this round of LA crime story bingo.  
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December 2011
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WatchWatch
marklisanti: I don’t think I could ever want anything more than this game. Playing with Pigs – researching the complex relationship between pigs and humans through game design via Treehugger]
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Notes EM: this is how you start a takedown! →
evgenymorozov: The first paragraph of Matt Cartmill’s review of Donna Haraway’s Primate Visions book. It appeared in the International Journal of Primatology (Vol. 12, No. 1, 1991) This is a book that contradicts itself a hundred times; but that is not a criticism of it, because its author thinksthat all interpretations are biased, and she regards it as her duty to pick and choose her facts to...
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Works cited
shitmystudentswrite: “JSTOR: An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie.” JSTOR: An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Nov. 2011 
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November 2011
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“We won’t let you wither away.”
–  Someone said this to me yesterday, after I talked a little bit blurted out inappropriately confided to him how afraid I am of disappearing while in my current situation. It makes me cry. I could never tell anyone why, but it does. Tumblr really needs a hugs button. As does life.  (via...
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