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BBC’s Magazine today has a fantastically breathless article documenting what I can only imagine to be the “increasing trend” of girls being (gasp) perpetrators of violence. “These reports still jolt society in a post-feminist age,” according to the article, “Partly because they are so rare and partly because women are not expected to be aggressive.“ [...]

I saw this in the aisle at Sunflower market, an organic grocery store that operates around this here parts (this, at an organic grocery store? shock!).
“Guess what’s at the center of the universe? It’s you! Also, let’s talk about Deepak Chopra and those wacky atheists, eh?”
I have, on occasion, the urge to bonk people with [...]

The question is: how to love?
You don’t know a thing unless you are perceiving it. This isn’t an epistemological statement—you are not meant to take this and run round-and-round in the solipsist death spiral. “My perceptions are necessarily imperfect,” you are not supposed to say, “ergo I cannot know anything.”
This is a statement about all [...]

I have some experience with rejecting self-taken identity. I have some experience with leaving communities. I have some experience with realizing that a thing you thought was good—and maybe it once was—is no longer a thing you can be part of.
I get this. In a really fundamental way. It is catastrophic to me that this [...]

The Mary Jane, um, “action” figure below reminded me of this.
I love, love, love comics where I can look at the characters say, “wow. my body actually kinda looks like that.” (this link contains nekkid.)
That page blew my mind, actually.
Obviously, I was aware that comic art is… not exactly realistic. Not for men, but especially-omg-holycrap [...]

Karol Sheinin unwittingly highlights certain differences of opinion as to the meaning of English words:
I want to free Tibet as much as the next person (in fact, my parents can confirm that I had a “Free Tibet” sticker hanging in my room in their house since about 1992) but I’m not sure what scaling the [...]

It is really really bad to do pharmaceutical experiments on soldiers. It’s obviously wrong to perform such experiments on anyone without really strong checks for safety and informed consent.
But, y’know, if the experiments have already been done, we may as well admit that the results are, in some cases, basically hilarious.

“But one hour and ten [...]

And I’m back! With, as promised, content and shit. For my first post, I will channel my not-very-inner-bourgeoisie and write about National Public Radio.
No. Seriously.
A couple of days ago, Talk of the Nation had Roger Mudd and Bob Schaffer, both former reporters at the CBS news bureau, reminiscing about their days working at that company. [...]

My welcoming party looks suspiciously like a sparkly nu-riotgrrl-metal band (a Spanish, sparkly, nu-riotgrrl-metal band). Whoever arranged that: you do not fail to know me startlingly well.
Like Marc said, I’ve been doin’ the writing thing over at Flight Papers for a just a little while now, and let me just say that I had no [...]