It seems to me that it's fairly profoundly inappropriate to prioritize U.S. citizens bemoaning the failure of the United States to "gain" anything in Iraq, over. You know. Iraqi citizens living in a rapidly moving warzone.

I hate the U.S. news media.

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I get really angry when people use blatantly incorrect assertions about history to bully people.

Less blatantly incorrect assertions as bullying tool are also infuriating, but don't make my brain short out quite the same way.

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Culture is also important. Those of us who teach and are reasonably accessible have office visits from Asian American students, particularly those in the sciences, to protest perfectly respectable grades. As one young Chinese American student - American-born of immigrant parents - explained to me after I told her why I would not change her B+ to at ( Read more... )

I don't need to get into stupid arguments in the comments of a Bitch blog post a month old about whether or not white was a color reserved, when it came to textiles, for the uber wealthy in the mid-nineteenth century.

So I'm not going to. However, in my own space I will say this:

Bleach. Not an invention of the 1950s, folks.

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So evidently some of the professors on my campus have been disclosing students' disabilities publicly without their permission.

...Lovely.

To do the adminstration credit, they have responded with "this is super unethical and dangerous and needs to stop right now," unfortunately the next words in the press release were "it puts the university at ( Read more... )

I wonder if today's Commonwealth Club broadcast was less infuriating if heard in full instead of in fragments while dashing about filling prescriptions, picking up household necessities, and buying food for the dog.

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On Wednesday I overheard Kate Chopin's "Story of An Hour" described by a classmate as, "the one where that guy's wife thinks he's died..."

It took me five minutes to stop gaping. Mrs. Mallard really can't have her own story, even when it is her story, can she?

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On Thursday I was presenting my results of an exercise in primary source research to a class of mine. Now, I'd done this particular project on marriage rights for people with disabilities in the early twentieth century, and my results were fairly surprising: long story short - in my time period and in the cases I was able to find, the conservative ( Read more... )

I think I would have been far less irritated with Paul Johnson's A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 if I hadn't read the preface he wrote for the twenty fifth anniversary edition first.

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