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Peg Tittle
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Aug 09 2026
Ballsy (fiction from Fighting Words)
Ballsy “I’d like to thank all of you for coming,” the smartly-dressed woman smiled warmly at the several people seated around the board room table, each with a prospectus in front of them. Only one was a man. “As all of you know, my name is Mariette Chandler. Kristina Bolaenko, legal counsel, is at my …
Aug 05 2026
from Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods – delightful and pointy at the same time
“Nearly everyone I talked to had some gruesome story involving a guileless acquaintance who had gone off hiking the trail with high hopes and new boots and come stumbling back two days later with a bobcat attached to his head …” p3 “… he had been let go from jobs at Harvard and the National …
Aug 02 2026
from Earth for Sale: The fight to stop the last plunder of the planet, Maude Barlow
“The disruption to the commons that followed Christopher Columbus’ initial journey dled to the death of 56 million Indigenous people by 1600 …” p13 “The total compensation to Indigenous people amounted to pennies per acre for Native territories … The treaty procedure was propelled by threats of war, forced removal, and simply taking the land …
Aug 02 2026
some excerpts from Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine
“In every country where Chicago School policies [neo-liberalism] have been applied over the past three decades, what has emerged is a powerful ruling alliance between a few very large corporations and a class of mostly wealthy politicians—with hazy and ever-shifting lines between the two groups.” p17 “A more accurate term for a system that erases …
Jul 18 2026
“We don’t occupy their imaginations …”
“We don’t occupy their imaginations the way they occupy ours.” Black scientist about his white colleagues (from the movie “Black Cake”) Yeah. Now imagine that ten-fold for a female scientist.
Jul 14 2026
from The First Political Order: How sex shapes governance and national security worldwide, Valerie M. Hudson et al.
Part I is a must-read. Excerpts follow. “Men seeking their own security attempt to construct strong male-bonded alliances, typically based on patrilineal (agnatic) relationships … [Women] biologically reproduce the group, providing brothers and sons for this male alliance. The fraternity’s dependence on women … leads to the necessity for men to control them.” p2 [This …
Jul 12 2026
from When the Moon Hits Your Eye, John Scalzi
“…as someone whose sexuality so far had expressed itself as ‘possibly asexual or maybe just unimpressed with the local talent’ …” p187 “Jody Bannon was worth, what, a couple hundred billion dollars? Think about how much money that is. He could have spent a million dollars a day, on anything, and it would still take …
Jul 07 2026
from Doughnut Economics: 7 ways to think lke a 21st century economist, Kate Raworth
too long to copy, but a great synopsis of neoliberal economics in the form of a stageplay with characters – p59-61 ditto, the alternative – p62-3 “How productive would your workforce be if it hadn’t been toilet trained?” Alvin Toffler p69 “if women were paid the going hourly rate for eac of their roles—switching between …
Jun 26 2026
from The Shakespeare Requirement, Julie Schumacher
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 …
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 …
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