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"White male" IS an identity
Eugene Robinson says everything I've been thinking about the Sotomayor hearings, but way more eloquent:
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Money!
As a part of being a responsible adult, a year or so ago I began a system of tracking how much money I spent. At the end of each month, I'd gather up my pay stubs and bank account statements and ferret out my receipts from where I'd stuck them in my wallet and bags and pockets and gather up the piles on my dresser and desk, and I'd spread them all ( Read more... ) -
Still waiting for the change I voted for
I love this letter to the editor:
To the Editor:
Re 40 Years Later, Still Second-Class Americans, by Frank Rich (column, June 28 ( Read more... ) -
I love my team
As many of you know, I've been struggling a lot lately with my rugby/life balance - both in general and in particular now that my team is a part of a new higher-level league ( Read more... ) -
Housing
To any LJers who live in the District, or who know someone who does - I currently live in a four-bedroom townhouse in Capitol Hill that I absolutely adore. However, all three of my roommates are moving out so that means I am looking for three NEW roommates ( Read more... ) -
Overqualified
I have read Joey Comeau's Overqualified job applications before, but I guess I wasn't in the right frame of mind at the time - I thought they were vaguely clever, but ultimately boring.
What was wrong with me?
Utopia awaits!
To: Irving Oil ( Read more... ) -
The Nerd Chart
So, have you guys seen the most recent XKCD? Because I just read it and didn't get it, so I consulted the internet which informed me about the Erdos NumberNow, the concept of the Erdos Number (which, more or less, indicates how many degrees of separation you are from Erdos, measured by scientific paper authorship) is pretty interesting in and of ( Read more... ) -
LJ Brain Trust
Stolen verbatim from dimethirwen:
Everyone needs to know something sometime, and on LJ we regularly rely on "the LJ brain trust" to answer questions that are beyond us. But what kind of information network are we if we don't know what kind of knowledge we have on hand? So ante up and tell what you know ( Read more... ) -
My awesome 23rd birthday
My birthday was on Friday, and it started pretty amazingly. I had taken the day off work, which my relatives didn't seem to notice as I received three "Happy birthday!" text messages before 9am, but waking up early wasn't too bad - especially since I realized the antibiotics I'd gotten the day before (was still sick, went to a doctor who diagnosed ( Read more... ) -
They're what?
I talk a lot about how, on a rugby team, no one really cares about whether you're gay or straight (or neither, or both, or you know, whatever). Not just that they love you either way - for most people, they really just don't care.* Today I was talking to two of my teammates, who told me the following story which proved that true ( Read more... )