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Newton School Shooting Links
A simple place to collect interesting articles related to the coming "gun" debate.- Wikipedia on 14dec12 shooting at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting
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The Spindle of Necessity at Republic 616d
Working through the Myth of Er in Greek yesterday, we came to the beautiful and cosmologically important passage on the Spindle of Necessity. Any passage with numbers and spatial descriptions is hard in an inflected language, but it was made harder because the other students didn't know what a drop spindle was. I briefly explained the process and ( Read more... ) -
Great Books and the Liberatory Potential of Humanities
Just finished reading Alex Beam's 2008 book A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books. Having just attended Reed College's "volunteer weekend," with its self-congratulory emphasis on the cosmic and special properties of a Reed College liberal-arts education, I have a lot to think about it. I've been in love ( Read more... ) -
Link list 8aug12http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/08/13/120813crat_atlarge_gopnik?c
Today is the 27th (?) anniversary of the death of Lynne Carter in 1986, a woman I think of often and whom I've written of elsewhere, in private. I'm not sure why but the date seems more important this year, and I'm sure I shall observe it somehow, for reasons I won't write of here.
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Link List for 6aug12: Sikh shooting, guns, neaderthals, Reclaiming
Apparently there was another mass shooting this weekend, wherein some young, working-class white male has enacted the standard moral training that white men are morally entitled to kill others, particularly women, our own families or people of color. Yesterday's target-rich environment was a Sikh temple during services but details such as his ( Read more... ) -
August 2012 Strategy for LiveJournal: chimpanzee links to help you pee while standing
The earliest online diaries I recall were introduced to me by the beloved daughter of a former partner on the website DiaryLand.com but the earliest "blogs" I remember reading were essentially from folks who shared tidbits from their daily browsing. Sometimes (but not always) these were annotated, and this was an important thing in the days before ( Read more... )
