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Speed Blogging, Monday 8/26/2013. On Anniversaries, Women in the Obama Administration and The Question of Religious Freedom 27 Aug 2013 | 04:32 am
Or word salad. Not coleslaw, but the kind of salad where you have goat cheese lumps, too, among lettuce leaves a bit too big to swallow without knife-work. First, Saturday was the 50th anniversary o...
Random Writing Post. Can Be Ignored. 27 Aug 2013 | 03:41 am
This is necessary because I took two days off from the computer and its simulacrum of the real world. But that's a post for a different day when the gears in my brain are better oiled. I'm feeling m...
The Bunny Rabbit Theory of Male Advantage And Other Wild Stories 24 Aug 2013 | 03:16 am
This has been a fun week in the sorta-essentialist camp of gender stories. Sit back and relax, because you are going to be fed lots of very serious theory about why women have the roles they do and ....
Speed Blogging Thursday, August 22 20013. On Heroism, Internet Hate, What I Don't Write About And Why. 23 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
This is a great story about a woman who prevented a massacre. I think that took real courage and skill, all without a gun. More on the question of hate on the Internets: Huffington Post is to stop ...
Speed Blogging 8/21/2013. Or How We Work: The Death of the Forty-Hour Workweek, Flex-Time not for Single Women and the Gender Wage Gap Among Kids 22 Aug 2013 | 06:03 am
This sad story deserves much more than a note in a speed list. I've written a little before about the slow death of the forty-hour week, the way working much, much longer is regarded as ethical and i...
Oh Boy! This Is Fun. The Catch-22 Of Being Janet Yellen. 20 Aug 2013 | 11:51 pm
This new WaPo article on why Janet Yellen is probably not the president's choice for the next chair of the Federal Reserve is fantastic! It's hilarious! It's a perfect example of the Catch-22 that Y...
What To Read Today 20 Aug 2013 | 11:05 pm
This post on Harriet Tubman and what happened recently about her memory. This article on building a new racial justice movement. The ghost rapes of Bolivia. On sexual abuse among a Mennonite commun...
What Did You Read On The Beach? 20 Aug 2013 | 01:49 am
Or what are you planning to read if you haven't had your vacation yet? Perhaps I should ask some of you what you would read if you ever had time off for it. Sigh. This is supposed to be a jolly and...
Crushed By the Costs of Daycare. And Who Is To Pay Them? 19 Aug 2013 | 09:55 am
The title of a post on the New York Times Opinionator blog. It's a good post, pointing out the great difficulty of finding and affording good-quality daycare. It even talks about how this is a great...
Lettuce Prey 18 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
A fun religious post for you all! I once considered Lettuce Prey as my Internet handle but decided against it. Here it can stand for one of the many interesting religious transformations which exist...
