Wednesday, December 1, 2010

from Professor Davies

'Can you find the steeping stone cow?' Only if I'm stoned myself...

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from Bien Laoshi

The Chinese enjoy passing diseases around.

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Monday, November 29, 2010

from the article "How Palin Flunks Feminism" on The Daily Beast

In some ways, it’s a good thing that Sarah Palin calls herself a feminist. It means that, even among conservatives, women’s equality has become a normative position, the starting point for debate. It means that feminism has gone from something that the right wants to destroy to something it wants to appropriate. That’s progress, of a sort.

But reading Palin's new book, America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag, it’s clear that in order to claim feminism as her own, she’s had to radically distort its history. In a chapter on feminism that’s sure to be widely discussed, she mischaracterizes the views of nearly every historical feminist she mentions.

from a translation of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"

Whether fate be foul or fair,
Why falter I or fear?
What should man do but dare?

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Thursday, November 25, 2010

from my dad and my little sister

Andrea: They're 60% off!
Dad: Sixty percent off what? You can still go broke saving money.

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