Stanford University, or your own lyin’ eyes? Interesting story in yesterday’s Times on a divorce case at Stanford’s business school that cracked open a window on the question of gender discrimination at the school and at the Hoover Institute, the right-wing academic bolus hawked up onto Leland Jr.’s farm. Much huffing and puffing by Stanford’s administration about …
Now Is Not The Right Time. It Is The Only Time
Two campus shootings in a single day. First up, Northern Arizona University, where a gun in the hands of an 18 year old student dispatched bullets into the bodies of four human beings. One is dead. G. T. Fowler, the chief of campus police, said that Steven Jones, a freshman, had opened fire after two groups …
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Tikka For Speaker (More Thread)
A couple of threads back, a kind commenter asked after my lord and master, Kitten Tikka Masala. I’m sorry to report he’s been fighting allergies all summer, which means that yours truly has been relearning the proper technique for feeding pills to clawed animals that don’t take kindly to medication. I’m better now. Anyway, as …
Because No One Knows The Essence Of Blackness…
….like an old, filthy-rich white guy. Here’s noted sociologist of race and authenticity, Rupert “Bug-Eyed Monster” Murdoch “Ben and Candy Carson terrific. What about a real black President who can properly address the racial divide?…” [via TPM] Ummm. Rupert… …Protip: Take it from a fellow person of the Caucasian persuasion: You don’t get a vote. …
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For A Good Time In Cambridge (This Thursday)
Yo! Local Juicers — if you’ve reserved Thursday evening for watching paint dry, I have an alternative. I’m going to be moderating a really excellent iteration of the MIT Communications Forum — this time co-sponsored by our city-wide celebration Hub Week. I’ll be very lightly riding herd on Annalee Newitz and Charles C. Mann as …
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Teamwork
It’s not confined to the NFL, you know: . You can thank me later — and talk about whatever.
Truth In Advertising
Forwarded to me by a friend, a wine for the wingnut in your family: Exactly the vintage that, it seems, has been consumed in bulk by the Donald Trumps of the world — and their acolytes. Which is to say, this thread — it is open.