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Portland Restaurant Workers Win Back Wages | Industrial Workers of the World [via Facebook]
Direct action gets the goods.
Language Log » Popes and prophets [via Facebook]
Your lunchtime linguistics: singular “they,” bound variables and the papacy
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4475
Is Your Local Police Department Using Pictures of Pregnant Women and Children for Target Practice? – [via Facebook]
Public Safety (cont’d)
“. . . The subjects in [No More Hesitation] targets were chosen in order to give officers the experience of dealing with deadly force shooting scenarios with subjects that are not the norm during training. I found while speaking with officers and trainers in the law enforcement community that there is a hesitation on the part of cops when deadly force is required on subjects with atypical age, frailty or condition (one officer explaining that he enlarged photos of his own kids to use as targets so that he would not be caught off guard with such a drastically new experience while on duty). This hesitation time may be only seconds but that is not acceptable when officers are losing their lives in these same situations. . . .”
http://reason.com/blog/2013/02/19/is-your-local-police-department-using-pi
Police officers put your life on the line every day in order to keep themselves safe — by making themselves ready to open fire, without hesitation, on children, pregnant women and “subjects with atypical … frailty.”
Conjugal Bliss (1892). By Miriam Daniell in LIBERTY Vol. IX.—No. 4, Whole No. 238 (September 24, 189 [via Facebook]
To-day at the Fair Use Repository: “Conjugal Bliss” by Miriam Daniell, in LIBERTY IX.4 (Sep. 24, 1892).
Comment on Man or Austroman? by Rad Geek
But Frodo only reclaimed Bag-End after the rightful occupant had been murdered, and his sole surviving heir had willingly handed the property over to go live with her family in Hardbottle.
The Bilbovian Proviso might be more on-point.
The Century That Stammered – Reason.com [via Facebook]
Book review by Shawn P. Wilbur for Reason: “A classic history of American cranks and radicals comes back into print.”
Comment on Man or Austroman? by Rad Geek
I hope you don’t mind, but we moved in a family of 7 subsistence-farming squatters to occupy and use your website while you were away.
Creating Hipsturbia in the Suburbs of New York [via Facebook]
The latest Data-less Trend Story from the New York Times has made the astounding discovery that when a subcultural demographic is identified, partly, by the fact that they are young, then eventually they will get old. And when they get older, especially when they have kids, some people move out of the big city and into the suburbs. And when people move to the suburbs, they take their fashions with them. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/fashion/creating-hipsturbia-in-the-suburbs-of-new-york.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
Rad Geek commented on 'our aesthetic/sexual identities: a sketch'
Hey Crispy,
So, just like in the interest of complicating this some more, can you tell me like whether you can take in this or this as like anything other than "a celebration of artifice, an apotheosis of appearance, an orientation toward spectacle"? Because really it seems to me obvious that even completely setting aside the troubling of aesthetics of sincerity and authenticity that you quite rightly point to, it just seems to me that "your side" as you understand it has some pretty extensive and really at this point quite overt theatrics of artifice and spectacle going on and going through it.
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