some good bits from the Schumacher’s follow-up to Dear Committee Members “… temporary instructors, who could probably earn more as forty-hours-a-week fast-food managers than they did as adjunct faculty …” p28-9 “The next student tried and failed to pronounce the word ‘tragic’. … At the back of the room … a student was dribbling hot …
June 2026 archive
Jun 25 2026
Fucking bitch.
“A guy on a bicycle was staring at her so intently he nearly got hit by a bus. ‘Watch out,’ she cried, but the sound was swallowed by the simultaneous blast of the bus driver’s horn. The biker swerved, and the bus just missed him. He slammed into a parked car and was thrown to …
Jun 19 2026
I’m not a feminist, but …
“But how often, still, do we hear women anxiously asserting ‘I’m not a feminist, but …’ as they go on to make claims that depend upon, and would be impossible without, a feminist groundwork?” from Feminism: A Very Short Introduction, Margaret Walters
Jun 18 2026
from I Don’t, Clementine Ford
There’s a lot here and every bit is worth reading. Better yet, just get the book. And read it. Every word. * from blurb for Ford’s I Don’t “why do so many women still believe that our value is intrinsically tied to being chosen by a man?” “Ford explains how capitalist patriarchal structures need …
Jun 17 2026
Steven Pinker on AI
Steven Pinker on AI (from The Book of Minds, Philip Ball) “As Steven pinker has said, ‘A characteristic of AI dystopias is that they project a parochial alpha-ale psychology onto the concept of intelligence … There is no law of complex systems that says that intelligent agents must turn into ruthless megalomaniacs.’ It is telling, …
Jun 07 2026
Patricia Pearson, Playing House
(I’ve discovered a new funny author…) “He worked as a jazz musician, living off the avails of his art, which was the annual salary equivalent of two Smarties and a piece of string.” p4 “…he understood certain expatriate secrets, such as where Alberta was and how it felt to be treated like a doofus in …
Jun 02 2026
some excellent bits from Roper’s Sex Dolls, Robots, and Woman Hating
“… when sex doll and robot advocates promote the use of these products as being beneficial for ‘people’, they mean male people. When they claim sex robots could help alleviate loneliness, they mean men’s loneliness, not women’s. When they argue sex robots could be used by the elderly, they mean elderly men. When they champion …
Jun 01 2026
Why aren’t more men insulted by the low standards we set for them?
If he changes a diaper, he’s father of the year. If he cooks something, anything, he’s a chef. If he marries, but otherwise continues to live pretty much as he has to that point, he’s suddenly respectable. If he continues to pay a child’s ball game into adulthood, he gets paid a six figure salary. …
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