Reading Russ: Chapter 1 - ProhibitionsNow that school is out, I have time to read books that are not teen novels.  Books like: How to Suppress Women’s Writing by Joanna Russ.

In the first chapter Russ immediately tackles the false idea that hurdles must be codified into law in order to matter.  In fact, the prohibitions Russ focuses on first are ( Read more... )

"Sometimes it’s important to start with numbers. When it comes to inter-generational conflict, tied as it is to stories about Oedipus and Hamlet, numbers help ensure we’re speaking of a particular relation rather than a mythic archetype."

Malcom Harris is quite right, and provides all kinds of useful numbers* in his article Arms and Legs, but I want ( Read more... )

I am annoyed with work right now and about to get into a major tiff with them over vacation days.  I have about two and half weeks of vacation stored up at the moment, and should have another week by the end of this coming June.  Some of which will expire if they are not used.

For obvious reasons, I haven't really taken an actual vacation since ( Read more... )

I should be sleeping and not ranting.  But I decided to check out the twitter stream of #ows.  And ran across this tweet by Clay Shirky*:

"Bankers mock #OWS, accuse politicians of disloyalty http://nyti.ms/qPcutW And a plea to one of the 53%"

Which led me to this quote:

"John Paulson, the hedge fund titan who made billions in the financial crisis.... ( Read more... )