I've been in graduate school for six years. It'll be at least another three before I finish ( Read more... )

" 'Intolerance is gay.'
      -- God."

I may have worked my butt off to come here for nothing. My funding, advisor, cohort, program are all at risk because of impending cuts. Worrying about drops in the bucket may seem in poor taste to my fellow Lefties right now, and this letter will make many people uncomfortable. But it's not education-haters alone who threaten us. Some drops in the ( Read more... )

Never, ever watch Synecdoche, New York, while reading Foucault.

Not even while reading about Foucault.

And especially not while "treating" yourself to dinner and a movie after having been stood up.

Is it midnight yet? Is it midnight yet ( Read more... )

Giant grasshopper menace!
Beetles from the Beyond!

Just in case anybody is confused as to why McCain would be involved in such evil doings as those described in yesterday's post, take a look at these:


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Non-Indian writings that try in a well-meaning way to "support" Indian people tend to be pretty full of shit. All this ridiculous jargon about "peacefulness" and "traditional" and "in touch with nature" and "sacred" this that and the other thing, etc., is often true. It's also often exaggerated or even false. Regardless of whether it's true or ( Read more... )

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Iⁿdé-noⁿba núzhiⁿga noⁿbída shti
Two-faces and the Twin Brothers
Told by Páthiⁿnoⁿpʰazhi Not Afraid of Pawnees, a.k.a. Jordan Stabler, to James Owen Dorsey, 1880's.

The following text has been converted to the official orthography of the Umóⁿhoⁿ Nation, with the exceptions of (1) vowel length represented by double vowels where known; (2) the digraph ( Read more... )