As many of you who are friends with me on Facebook already know, it's become official. Lisa and I have set a wedding date of 3/14 2014. As much as we'd have liked the fuller representation of a Pi Day wedding date of 3/14/15, on the one hand, Lisa might still be in India doing her field research then and on the other, 2014 marks the 5-year ( Read more... )

If I mention Tucson, Aurora, or Sandy Hook, everyone immediately (or relatively so) identifies them as the site of a violent shooting that rocked America. So why does nobody mention Milwaukee ( Read more... )

Okay, folks. Let’s sit down and have a chat about privilege. Yes, again. But before we can discuss privilege, we need to discuss jargon and language specificity. Why? Because the thing that’s driving me batty about people discussing “privilege” is the use of (what at least should be) a narrowly-defined tool as a general-purpose one. A pin- ( Read more... )

The other day, I read about a new LJ community specifically for abused women. In the group's formation blurb, they said "we're restricting this comm to women only, because abused women need a place to talk safe from men and their men-opinions ( Read more... )

from a conversation earlier today:

(2:38:05 PM) monred1: Rotsa Ruck ( Read more... )

Yet another reason I try to maintain friendship with one of my library school professors:

In response to my posting this news story about a book-burning in AZ, he responded with this sarcastic eloquence ( Read more... )

(Note: this is taken from an FB post by Rick Boatright, one of the more science-oriented Barflies I know ( Read more... )

from GChat earlier this afternoon:
"you know, if all other proof doesn't convince someone that Jews never ate Christian babies, the fact that there's no Rabbinic argumentation on issues like freshness, whether it counts as work, etc. should be enough to settle the matter."

(this has been shamelessly copied from eruvande's facebook page ( Read more... )

Altaz: Indeed ( Read more... )