Sunday Reading
...Roma 'I'll Be Your Mirror': Lou Reed and the New York School of Poetry Poop Train The Gladwell pivot ReclaimUC: UCLA + LAPD = "Predictive Policing" Racial discrimination, administrative toleration,...
Sunday Reading
...(and former law enforcer) takes on Yale Law Prof. The "“Tea Party Caucus” of corporate and securities law professors," and its rewards. What would Mirowski say? ReclaimUC: The New York...
Sunday Reading
...meaning and importance of full reproductive health care Building freedom of association, including the right to strike The work of organizing McDonald's makes its emotional labor visible. ReclaimUC: California's "pepper...
Sunday Reading
...Patagonia Humans of Tbilisi Straight Allies, White Anti-Racists, Male Feminists (and Other Labels That Mean Nothing to Me) ReclaimUC: War, palaces, huts, peace. "UC Berkeley has had a long and...
Beauty Blogosphere 4.12.13
...plan is job-cutting—and exiting some markets entirely, including Ireland and Vietnam. Financial analysts applaud the move. Beauty tech: Beauty appliances are booming in Japan, which means someday soon we Americans...
Sunday Reading
...(the) English in Current History Writing East India Company ship routes China & the Ancient Mediterranean World Sounding Islam in China Chinese Muslims & Shari’a Persians & Indians in Japan,...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of July 14)
...masala sauce may have been sampled by seagulls before it had gotten to you All-beef burger but hold the cow? You got it, if you happen to live in Japan...
Dispensing God's Care
Left critiques of the AHCA or Trump’s budget often miss the unique religious goals they serve.
Sunday Reading
...bombing of Japan" "State officials ordered the photos removed from a website operated by the University of Texas at Austin." "three ambulances failed to find the Olympic velodrome because their...
Justice in One Country
...for example) and also “detached from his own marginality.” But in a world where, as André 3000 puts it, “across cultures, darker people suffer most,” detaching is easier for some...
Why Couldn’t Richard Aoki Have Been an Informant?
...considered a threat to national security and exploitable by axis powers, in particular Japan, who was promoting its own version of Black-Asian solidarity. As a Cold War strategy the White...
Solitary Confinement
...exotic, Shaw asserts that this perception "relies upon a viewers inchoate expectations of what a given culture's type should look like," built over time as the font is used on...
Sunday Reading
...of staff-driven unionism "A new, disassembled, fitting-and-starting labor movement." How to make up and spread a "weird Japan" story Local knowledge, bad press, and the future of Fukushima agriculture...
The Quiet Life
...efforts of its narrator. He is also named Jesse Ball, though he refers to himself throughout the manuscript as Int., for Interviewer. He has come to a village in Japan’s...
Beauty Blogosphere 8.17.12
...not that my legs are a fraction as strong as Olympians')—when none of those features are particularly valued in our culture...yes, it feels sort of validating. Twenty-eight, looking great: Women...
Humid, All Too Humid
...Earthquakes in Japan, Thailand, Chile, Pakistan, Haiti, etc. were the result of global warming? Only pseudoscientists have answers, which are about as compelling as religious fanaticism. And those condemned Bangladeshis,...