Archive for April, 2009
WTF demography?
I remember my relief when turning 18 that I would be recognized as the adult I had long since considered myself to be. At 21, I was glad to have all the rights and responsibilities associated with legal adulthood. Imagine then how surprised I am to realize that just a mere four years ago I [...]
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Girls are metermaids
A friend’s facebook page reports he stumbled upon this classic of children’s literature. Among other gems: Boys are cops. Girls are metermaids. and: Boys build houses. Girls keep houses.
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You may have heard there is a petition circulating to protest Notre Dame’s decision to invite Pres. Obama as its commencement speaker. The bishop for the diocese in which Notre Dame is located, the Most Rev. John M. D’Arcy, will skip the ceremony and has written a letter of protest. A number of other Catholic [...]
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Reflection theory, redux
Three scholars from THE Ohio State University recently published a study of viewers’ political perceptions of the Colbert Report. Among the 332 individuals surveyed, the researchers found that liberals identified Colbert’s style as satirical while conservative viewers felt “Colbert only pretends to be joking and genuinely meant what he said”. It reminds me of Vidmar [...]
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Waking up, in New York
Jennifer Lena
Arrived: 1996
Although I had been in New York probably hundreds of times as a kid to visit my aunt, I had never been to Morningside Heights. My boyfriend Jon moved my stuff into the apartment–a 220 sq. foot room with one window looking onto an airshaft. The morning after he left, I walked the [...]
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Why I hate cops
There are two things I hate about this video:
1. Even if I grant that this dude was doing something wrong (which I won’t…he’s nude at an outdoor festival, claiming he loves his body), I still don’t think tasering him makes any sense at all. If you can’t get a compliant, naked dude to put [...]
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Why I hate the news
I’m sitting on the porch, enjoying the rattle of neighborhood awakenings, reading the paper on line. And I realize what a terrible day it is, how terrible every day has been (since January), on a strip on land in Sri Lanka:
More than 100,000 civilians fled from the combat zone earlier this week but the United [...]
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susan boyle redux
It turns out, Meghan O’Rourke over at Slate sees the world as I do:
But do not take this for a moment to be a blow in the face of ageism. Or a sign that we’re becoming a more thoughtful culture. Just listen to the condescension in beautiful, tanned, made-over Amanda Holden’s language when she tells [...]
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Right on time
My friends know I am punctual, to a fault. So I think this interactive map that estimates the time it will take you to get from somewhere in NYC to somewhere else, is like…awesome.
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Snapshot
In fraternity, here’s an email conversation between a professor and his student:
Email no. 1:
Professor Name,
I was looking over my grades throughout the semester, and I was concerned because I saw that I have a 60% for my overall grade. I thought I was doing well in the class because I had been keeping up with [...]
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