January 2011
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The Unbearable Whiteness of Pro-Lifers and Pundits... →
rabbleprochoice:
According to the historian David Blight, by the dawn of the Civil War “there were more millionaires (slaveholders all) living in the lower Mississippi Valley than anywhere else in the United States.” Indeed, by 1860 the American South was home to the second largest slave society in the entire world, one whose net worth exceeded “all of America’s manufacturing, all of the...
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“I believe that Twitter is a new form of communication so important that it...”
– By a total lunatic (via camdoingwork)
Wow, that’s a hoot. Maybe it does rival the development of language, in the sense that it will destroy language.
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Recovering a revolutionary
I’m unsatisfied with how we engage with Dr. King; this is particularly true on days such as this, his birthday. Quotations of his ‘I have a dream’ speech feature prominently among a narrow and unobjectionable grouping of his oft-referenced ruminations on righteousness. That iconic address powerfully articulated the hopes of a people and served as a catalyst to the evolving...
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An Assassination’s Long Shadow →
Please take a moment to remember Patrice Lumumba. He embodied the highest hopes for the people of the Congo, and 50 years ago today they were robbed of his promise by a plot orchestrated by the US and Belgium. We can’t know for sure what the Congo might have become under his democratic leadership, but we do know of the brutal dictatorship installed in his stead, and the broken, tortured...
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“The truth is, goddesses are lousy in bed.
They will do anything it’s true.
And...”
– Jack Gilbert, Dreaming at the Ballet
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THE WRONG STUFF: WHAT IT MEANS TO MAKE MISTAKES →
I love the premise (and the content) of this blog. It is all about what it means to be mistaken, or sometimes downright backwards, and then to change course. Grace and intellectual integrity are, to my mind, two of the highest virtues. Essential to both is humility, and the willingness and ability to reconsider, to admit error and to change your actions accordingly.