"We live in a world, however, where the decisive deed may invite the holocaust, and Salinger's conviction that our inner lives greatly matter peculiarly qualifies him to sing of an America where, for most of us, there seems little to do but to feel. Introversion, perhaps, has been forced upon history; an age of nuance, of ambiguous gestures and ( Read more... )

Dear Mr. President,

Recently, I had to take a graduation-requirement Writing Competency Exam for my school. The essay question I chose to write about had to do with the political pressure that your administration is placing on the EPA's research analysis.

I mentioned Stalin sending the Darwinists to the gulag.

Sincerely,
Rachel McKinney

next reading project: book on postwar japan, preferably about the connection between the war-profiteering yakuza and american occupation forces. there was some nasty shit going on there, and i'd like to know more about it ( Read more... )

asian bakery onion + cheese buns = fluffy yummy goodness.

i don't know why i bother. two of my professors essentially just gave me the "meh, get it in whenever" response when i begged them to turn in the assignment late. so now i have until friday for my language and identity assignment, the other two are in and one of those i know for sure is accepted and fine. still waiting on my syntax assignment, ( Read more... )

here's where i say that, for the record, i completely wasted my time in new zealand. completely.

CHOMSKY: Now the Orcs are using their triceratops friends to pull Grond, which is a large, flaming wolf's head that they use to beat down Minas Tirith's door. Why not employ the gunpowder technology used by Saruman's army at Helm's Deep ( Read more... )

in an effort to stop thinking myself into corners every time i try to do something worthwhile, i'm gonna try to post something reasonably thoughtful here every day. sometimes academically oriented, sometimes not, but anything's better than playing solitaire, and for some reason, paper journals don't really do it for me all the time ( Read more... )