Archive for December, 2013

While you’re waiting for the bus

Stuff worth reading Dessa-lation This is good I read the letters between Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (of Pussy Riot) and Slavoj Zizek Jessica Conrad: Why Mayors Should Rule the World Vote in local elections. It means something Not From the Onion-NROL 39. Best logo ever How We’re Destroying Our Kids’ Brains Don’t blame vaccines You Can Also […]

Cold and hungry

The graduate student association at my university is collecting food for local food banks, but is having trouble getting donations. Our Food Bin is cold and hungry for some donations! Please plan to pass by with something to share this holiday season. We will offer your donations as some support to help families in need get […]

Women’s clothes are always part of someone’s revolution

When Amelia Bloomer in 1851 suggested in her feminist publication that women wear a kind of short skirt and pants, to free themselves from the encumbrances of traditional dress, this was attacked in the popular women’s literature. One story has a girl admiring the “bloomer” costume, but her professor admonishes her that they are “only […]

Under Washington’s cherry tree

the common soldier, who was not getting paid, who was suffering in the cold, dying of sickness, watching the civilian profiteers get rich. … a smaller mutiny took place in the New Jersey Line, involving two hundred men who defied their officers and started out for the state capital at Trenton. Now Washington was ready. […]