January 2012
95 posts
December 2011
28 posts
My Top Five Songs of the Week:
1. “Pumped Up Kicks” by Foster the People
2. “Sunflower” by Low
3. “The Killing Moon” by Pavement
4.”What We Had” by Handsome Furs
5.”The Taming of the Hands That Came Back to Life” by Sunset Rubdown
“Los Angeles, on the other hand, was an ugly city, hot and oppressive, and the...”
– Charlie Chaplin, “My Autobiography”
A rant on Richard Dawkins
Much of what people do is done in the name of God. Irishmen blow each other up in his name. Arabs blow themselves up in his name. Imams and ayatollahs oppress women in his name. Celibate popes and priests mess up people’s sex lives in his name. Jewish shohets cut live animals’ throats in his name. The achievements of religion in past history — bloody crusades, torturing...
One teachers approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
“I don’t romanticize romance.”
The personal wisdom of me, Alysha Zawaduk, circa December 16, 2011. A good showpiece of my cynicism.
