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Commentary
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Commentary, Link
Of Glass Ceilings: Primary ‘08 in hindsight
“Competitions among grievances do not ennoble, and both Clinton and Obama strove to avoid one; but it does not belittle the oppressions of gender to suggest that in America the oppressions of race have cut deeper. Clinton’s supporters would sometimes note that the Constitution did not extend the vote to women until a half century [...]
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Commentary
Correction: Geraldine Ferraro is kind of crazy
I missed these follow up comments, quoted in the Times this morning:
“Every time that campaign is upset about something, they call it racist,” she said. “I will not be discriminated against because I’m white. If they think they’re going to shut up Geraldine Ferraro with that kind of stuff, they don’t know me.”
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Commentary, News
The hopefully-not-too Long Run
I had a feeling that was going to happen last night, but I wasn’t ready for the fear that would creep into my very steadfast mind about this: now that the Media/Barack Complex narrative is moving to the fore as sort of a self-reflexive reaction to Hillary and SNL’s criticism, and the media had gone [...]
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Commentary, Race
Goodbye to what? Hillary, Sex, and White Power
And when I say Hillary, I really mean to include what seems to be an increasing number of Second Wave feminists advocating on her behalf: first Gloria Steinem got me worked up with her Op-Ed in the Times a month ago, detailing the case for how Women Have it Harder Than Blacks.
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Commentary, Link, News
How often is often?
The Times had a front page headline yesterday, “Obama’s Vote in Illinois Was Often Just ‘Present.’”
Call me an Obama shill (I am), but I have an itch to scratch: the article states that then-State Senator Obama used the “Present” vote to register disapproval of measures he found unconstitutional or by party instruction “nearly 130 times.” [...] -
Commentary, News, Video
Nuditygate 2007: Innocent Students in the Crossfire
12.15.07 | Permalink | 4 CommentsEvery year a bunch of kids at Tufts get drunk and run around naked on the last day of classes; we call it NQR. This year, a reporter (obviously without any exciting Monday night plans) from a local paper1 got the bright idea to head up to campus with a video camera and a dream [...]
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Commentary, Space & Place
Schooled
Great Uncle Bill & Aunt Kay invited my Dad and I to sit down for a chat when we stopped by their house on some post-Thanksgiving errands. They asked about my thesis, and at their 87 years, I thought the most succinct explanation would be, “I’m looking at economically developing communities.”
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Commentary, Meta
Hello again, world.
For anyone reading along, or anyone stumbling onto this site for the first time: welcome! (And thanks for joining us). I can’t say I aspire to much more than a place to collect pithy bulletins around my interests: things Apple, things engaging-YouTube-videos, a big passion for design, and a marked desire to simply accumulate knowledge [...]
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Commentary, News, Tech
When it rains, it torrents.
It’s rain verging on snow outside in Boston tonight; the girls and I laid low after a short (that’d be one day) first week of classes and watched The West Wing on DVD.
I was downloading a little something else on BitTorrent for afterwards, but unhappy with the Torrent, went looking elsewhere.
Everytime I search The Pirate [...]
