There's an old joke... what do you get for someone who has everything.... STORAGE SPACE! In this case, my birthday is coming up and I could use some sort of storage container to store something in. A roommate 8 years ago had some stackable storage crates that were translucent, and I'm wishing I had some. So if anyone feels inclined to get me a
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"In Boise, Idaho, in 1955, a schoolteacher sat down to breakfast with his morning paper and read that the vice-president of the Idaho First National Bank had been arrested on felony sodomy charges; the local prosecutor said that he intended to eliminate all homosexuality from the community. The teacher never finished his breakfast. 'He jumped up
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"Identity politics enabled many formerly silenced and displaced groups to emerge from the margins of power and dominant culture to reassert and reclain suppressed identities and experiences; but in doing so, they often substituted one master narrative for another, invoked a politics of separa tism, and suppressed differences within their own '
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"For Huffington to be riffing on the state of public education is, in itself, remarkable, given that she lives in Brentwood, her daughters attend prestigious private schools, and the closest she’s ever come to an inner-city school was the day she accidentally drove by one, causing her to hastily lock the doors and windows of her Prius and speed
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"For men, abortion is a question of science, law, morals; for us women, it is a matter of violence and suffering. Whereas we demand the abrogation of all punitive abortion laws, and the provision of adequate resources so that abortions are performed in the best possible conditions, we refuse to consider this problem separately from all our other
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Don't think that you have any rights. That is, don't obscure or deform justice, but don't think that one can legitimately expect that things happen in a way that conforms with justice; especially since we ourselves are far from being just. Vertical superimposition.There is a bad way of believing we have rights, and a bad way of believing we do not
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