I’ve always been on the vaguely liberal side of the 2nd amendment debate. Roughly summed up, my opinion boiled down to: “Yeah, sure avatavistic hunters can have ’em, […]
racism / rant / sociology
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When NPR gave me culture shock
It’s been crazy-making busy, so I present you with… another response paper like this one and this one. I’m tempted to rewrite the last paragraph. Identity politics is […]
flash fiction
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100 Word Story – Jobs
Happy Memorial Day – here’s this week’s appropriate 100 word story. Now. PFC Fenti flinches, but there is no explosion. The driver glances at him, then watches the […]
feminism / rant / sociology
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Shaped Freedom
A recent article: “The freedom to say ‘no’” from the Boston Globe makes a startling assertion. The first few paragraphs state that women aren’t in certain “hard” sciences […]
racism / rant / sociology
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Seeing Race – And Trying To Understand It
Another old paper from my Race and Minority Relations class. This was a kind of “response paper” – just a general reflection on what we had gone over […]
racism / rant / sociology
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What’s Race Got To Do With It
I stumbled across some old bits from my “Race and Minority Relations” class. (Old bits. Heh. Five months old – it feels like forever…) Anyway, one of the […]