A few days ago, my hairdresser posted a comment about Huckleberry Finn and that it has been banned at numerous points in time and in different places. The ensuing commentary flared up with the usual snarky comments about using the N-word, or hearing it on...
...and i save people "MUCH time!" So says the penis enlarger guy and the CNA online person. Obviously, i must be brilliant. *whew* and i was worried that i was actually kind of dumb....
I have a theory about graduate school - it only works if you're humble enough to admit that you're not perfect, if you submit yourself supple-y to the demands and admonitions, praises and critiques, mouldings and formations of the people you ask to take you...
Since the earthquake, i have avoided a subject that makes me (and really most people) terribly uncomfortable: racism. I thought i might write about it in my generals, but got cold feet as it seemed that i could read about race, racism, critical race theory...
2010 was a frightful year. This can be stated unequivocally across the globe. I've caught myself jumping up and down in tirades and frustrations. It is in this vein that i am reminded of Walter Benjamin's Angel of History. A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows...