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BARCC walk
I'm doing the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center's Walk for Change again this year. You can go to my fundraising page to either donate to me or to register for the walk yourself (by clicking the "I want to raise money too" link near the top of the page). -
Books of 2010
Happy New Year!
In keeping with previous years, here's what I'm reading in 2010.
( 2007, 2008, and 2009)
1) Terry Pratchett: Carpet People (audio, finished 01-04) One of his few pre-Discworld books, it has apparently been described as "Lord of the Rings on a rug". Which is pretty apt.
2) Terry Pratchett: Strata (audio, finished 01-06) Another pre ( Read more... ) -
a guy’s guide to approaching strange women without being maced
Brilliant article someone recently brought up for discussion on the xkcd forum, so I thought I'd also link to it here.
When you approach me in public, you are Schrödinger’s Rapist. You may or may not be a man who would commit rape. I won’t know for sure unless you start sexually assaulting me. I can’t see inside your head, and I don’t know your ( Read more... ) -
Roman Polanski
The list reproduced here is really disheartening. It includes people involved in the film industry who apparently think Roman Polanski's drugging and raping of a 13 year old is merely "a case of morals". To read the wording of the petition, it's as though they think his detention in Switzerland happened because The Man disagrees politically with ( Read more... ) -
Political Science
I was in a recent discussion where someone was lumped in with other WASPs as being the sort to always embrace the status quo when it comes to issues of privilege and discrimination and such. Turns out that guy is Native Canadian, and none of W, A-S, or P. It sort of got me to thinking about something I've heard mentioned from time to time on the ( Read more... ) -
Update
Oh, and hey all. Things are going well ( Read more... ) -
Damn racist nonsense
Republican senators sparred with Judge Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday over racial bias, judicial activism and temperament as she presented herself as a reliable follower of precedent rather than a jurist shaped by gender and ethnicity, as some of her past speeches suggested.I'm really damn angry that she needs to say anything of the kind. Are we to ( Read more... )
