Maybe I am a sentimental dope, because it actually does hurt me to type this, but...I'm going to delete this blog.

It is actually a painful thing to do, partially because it's this thing that's been a part of my life since I was a sophomore in college a little over ten years ago (and I really did shudder as I typed that), but mostly because I ( Read more... )

I can't believe this is an actual research questions I have, but...

Any francophones out there know if "fouille-merde" carries or would carry basically the same meaning as "fudgepacker"? (I'm almost certain it would, but I'm not quite confident enough in my French-reading skills to be sure I'm not missing something or jumping to a wrong

So it's pretty much a given that today's conservatives only give a damn about people when they're still in the womb (or of course if they're rich, but that's another matter entirely). Once you're out of the womb, then it's a life of expensive health care, no social safety net, colleges only accessible by signing on to predatory loans, and an ( Read more... )

But why stories like these? All the ones we've heard...it's all boys' own stories, isn't it?...I mean, sure, they pass the time. They entertain. But how do they help you make sense of anything? The world isn't like that.

-Charlene, Worlds' End, Cerements

A woman shouldn't have to sleep her life away. Women aren't about dreaming. We're ( Read more... )

Oh my God, it's been a long time since I posted, hasn't it? I really need to start posing regularly here again, especially since, even though I think most people agree that Livejournal has passed its heyday long ago (unless you're Russian), I still both could use the casual writing practice and I'm too lazy to move the whole operation to WordPress ( Read more... )

Since I was raised to try to say something nice about everybody, I'll try to say something good about theorist Mark Halperin, author of "Is There A History of Sexuality?", "One Hundred Years of Homosexuality," and "How To Do The History of Homosexuality."

Hmm...

Well, I admire the fact that he managed to pull entire books out of his ass. Looks

I see Obama named as chief of staff a man that was instrumental in putting in place NAFTA, a big part of the reason our economy is collapsing.

You know, I'm glad I got to be born in the waning years of the Cold War, or else I wouldn't be prepared to recognize what a government blinded by ideology to basic and obvious economic realities looks

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Who better to get you in the spirit of the holiday than Twisted Sister?

I'm reading Chris Hedges' America's Fascists, which does often read like Stephen King for politically conscious progressives, but which I prefer to think of as a genuine cry of anguish from the perspective of an American and a Christian seeing the values of both identities being perverted. Here's probably the "money shot" of the book:

This is the ( Read more... )

So the PhD program's own "trial by fire" isn't the dissertation, but the comps. After reading about three hundred books or so, I have to write an essay a day for three or four days and then go before my entire committee to answer any questions they ask. Allegedly the professors of the History department have a tradition of setting out to make any ( Read more... )