Sunday Reading
"I walked down alone Sunday after church / To the place where John has been cutting trees." -- Robert Frost, "Pea Brush"
Sunday Reading
To Veluet-Guards, and Sunday-Citizens.
Creepshots and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of "Free Speech"
How the mere act of occupying a body that can be photographed becomes the consent required to do so
There Will Be a Memoir: Chinua Achebe and Biafra
Since I haven’t read it, I can’t be talking about Achebe’s book, can I?
Sunday Reading
Sunday Reading--October 7, 2012
My Norm is More Normal Than Yours: Academic Tweeting and Loose Fish
From a handful of tweets, to a storify collecting them, to blog posts, to an article in Inside Higher Ed documenting it as "news": “The Academic Twitterazi” had now become a thing.
Sunday Reading
l.e. long Banner hanging above the Port of Oakland during the November 2nd General Strike #feministvigilantegangs Black women shaping feminist theory This is how to…
Sunday Reading
from Frnkln Ridgway's Facebook Aaron Bady (is back at his Twitter handle): Spin The White House's initial statements about what happened, false though they turned out…
Eikonoklastes: Violence and Speech
"...for in the enjoyment of those fruits, which our industry and labours have made our own upon our own, what Privilege is that, above what the Turks, Jews, and Moors enjoy under the Turkish Monarchy?"
Sunday Reading
"One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since." -- Beverly Cleary
Sunday Reading
"Me with nothing to say / And you in your autumn sweater." -- Yo La Tengo
The Ahmeds in America, Part Three
“Mechanics is the branch of science concerned with the behavior of physical bodies when subjected to forces or displacements, and the subsequent effects of the bodies on their environment”
The Ahmeds in America, Part Two
Never self-reflect. Never think about consequence.
The Ahmeds in America, Part One
The lawyer is also interested in finding an expert witness to testify about cultural and family practices in rural Pakistan, perhaps a sociologist, anthropologist or even a community leader familiar with the culture.
Nice Book Reviews
And no, I don’t want to be the raving paranoid curmudgeon all of the time, but where does the anger go?
Media is Better Police
Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Police don’t kill people either.