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Good Old Fashioned Suffering
I Once Thought I Would Enjoy a Lifetime of Easy Living. How Good it is that I was Wrong. Since 9/11 it seems that so much of America has been struggling to regain its lost sense of comfort. Economical… more →
Faithfool
The Midwest
codyraymond wrote 43 minutes ago: The following post is a piece written by my friend and fellow-PC blogger, Cody Rogers. Cody’s … more →
Pledge of Nausea
tyromancer wrote 1 day ago: Pledge of Nausea I retch allegiance To the swag Of the requited hates of Numeria And to the incumben … more →
Fantasy Wednesday...?
chefdiesel wrote 2 days ago: It’s Wednesday. People are still talking about Bill Belichick’s call to go for it on 4th … more →
nip/tuck
ottiliemignon wrote 3 days ago: Agamben wrote of the doctor who, terminally ill with leukemia, turns his body into a laboratory. Thi … more →
Idea For Public Service Announcement
Huston wrote 1 week ago: Camera opens on a bus interior from the front; passengers settle in as the bus prepares to start mov … more →
Armistice Day Art
Emily wrote 1 week ago: H.D. (real name Hilda Doolittle) was an Imagist poet, an American transplant to London whose poetry … more →
On Whitman and Wilde, Homosexuality and History... and some Meta Questions as well
Emily wrote 2 weeks ago: I think that the first thing I ever read in which I recognized gay themes was Wilde’s “B … more →
Hallowed for an Eve
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thisiswhatamanlookslike wrote 2 weeks ago: !Trigger Warning! Discussion of Racism, Misogyny, Transphobia, etc. . . I have wanted to be Robin H … more →
Time - Eva Hoffman
Biblioklept wrote 2 weeks ago: Eva Hoffman’s Time, the latest in Picador’s series BIG IDEAS//small books, carefully but … more →
A Pair of Pessimistic Political Predictions
Huston wrote 3 weeks ago: I’m not saying that these things will happen, but the way our society is going, I think it … more →
Conservative Media's Ironic Misunderstanding of "School Indoctrination"
Huston wrote 1 month ago: A perceptive colleague alerted me to this story out of Chicago, where the mother of a boy investigat … more →
Classrooms in the Movies...
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Huston wrote 1 month ago: …never have more students than desks. …have every student in class, every day. …ha … more →
QOTD (2009-10-14)
Emily wrote 1 month ago: Edmund White, in an interview with Salon, says one of my favorite things ever about same-sex marriag … more →
Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project
bebrowed wrote 1 month ago: Let’s start with the caveats. This is the first piece by Benjamin that I’ve read, prior … more →
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ottiliemignon wrote 1 month ago: The theme of all television is the tenuous relation of the public and private. Every essential genre … more →
Telling Reactions to Shooting Tragedy
Huston wrote 1 month ago: Tragedy struck Las Vegas—as usual—on Tuesday night when police were forced to shoot a mentally distu … more →
Heteronormativity, Again; or, The Experience of Reading Twilight
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Emily wrote 1 month ago: I may have mentioned to you by now, dear reader, that my English professor lectured this morning on … more →
In Which Rachel Maddow and I Have Something in Common
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Emily wrote 1 month ago: Jason Mattera (of kicking your faithful correspondent out of the Young America’s Foundation co … more →
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jane burkhardt wrote 2 months ago: BLOG LIKE A MARTIAN! In the early 1960’s there was a show called My Favorite Martian. In the … more →
