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...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of January 5, 2020)
...bags of shrimp from a local supermarket by stuffing them down his pants A reflection on the contentious issue of "food authenticity" Food manufacturers in Japan add theme parks to...
An Emancipation Proclamation to the Motherhood of America
...ordered a package of diaphragms, commonly known as pessaries, to be shipped directly from Japan to Stone at the clinic. The package was intercepted by customs officials, which led to...
Batter of Perception
...Illustration from Fairy Tales from Far Japan (1908) So mucked up with kneading dough she is she has to use her wrist to push her hair back from...
Kenya Will Never Was
...website, that one of the largest sources of funding is Japan, but the Kenyans’ refrain of “The West...” still remains. The journalists sound baffled. One chants the party line: Westerners...
Our Nukes, Ourselves
Nuclear heritage and nuclear stewardship in a quiet desert town
How Can You Watch That Stuff?
...Society almost succeeded in driving the combined imperial powers of the U.S., Europe, and Japan out of China. Capoeira, the Brazilian fighting style which looks more like dancing than combat,...
A work of art by any standards ...
...Illustration from China and Japan: Being a Narrative of the Cruise of the U.S. Steam-Frigate Powhatan, in the Years 1857, '58, '59, and '60 (1861) "Not a single...
Un(der)known Writers: Nicola Chiaromonte
...Photo: Hiroshima, Japan (1945) “The individual who has lived through a great historical upheaval has not only been dispossessed of his beliefs. He has found himself face to...
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...
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...
Grudge Lust
...oneself with Shakespeare, Whigs, Tories, and Reformers all (perhaps most of English culture and many Englishmen), his former friends, and, most of all, himself. Midway through the essay, Hazlitt writes,...
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...
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...
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...
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...