Archive for 2013
While you’re waiting for the bus
Stuff worth reading You’re a Part-Timer: How Corporate America Used the Great Recession to Turn Good Jobs Into Bad Ones. A Nation Unhinged: The Grim Realities of “The Real American War” We Don’t Even Know What We Don’t Know MAP: Global Flood Damage Could Exceed $1 Trillion Annually by 2050 Installing robust protective infrastructure that […]
Allies vs. role models
Even when the people around you are interested in stamping out oppression, if they haven’t experienced it or spent much time listening to the people they’re interested in helping, they often can’t help you. A particularly funny example from gilly‘s comment over on Tenure She Wrote. I asked my (male) PhD adviser how I should […]
The new retirement plan is the old retirement plan
Like all the new young his sole provision for old age is hope of an early death. From Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
While you’re waiting for the bus
Stuff worth reading The Military Mindset Behind ‘Stop & Frisk.’ The economic and cultural dominance of Filipino sailors I love how “augmenting their masculinity” means treating women better. The opposite is often true. Gasoline lead may explain as much as 90 percent of the rise and fall of violent crime over the past half century […]
A relief and heartbreak
Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them. From Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
One of my favorite songs redone can’t-breathe better
While you’re waiting for the bus
Stuff worth reading The Onion Predicts Real Life on NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission Thoughts on the love affair with buses More trains please, and stop whining about the cost Can Free Transit Work in a Real City? Railway files for bankruptcy after crash So many companies use this trick – shift assets to a new […]