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Peg Tittle
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Nov 19 2022
from Joel Bakan’s The New Corporation
“There are no limits in the [Paris] accord on continued exploration and drilling or on tar sands exploration (which experts say could alone defeat Paris targets), pipeline construction, or hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). The accord contains no legally binding emission targets, no timeline for emission reductions, no enforcement mechanisms, no concrete regulatory proposals, and no plans …
Nov 15 2022
Some great lines from Luke McKinney
Luke McKinney’s “The 8 Stupidest Defenses Against Accusations of Sexism” is worth the read, but a few lines stand out: “Of course, most of us don’t need special tactics to get laid. It turns out “not being an asshole” and “meeting other people” both work pretty well.” “Being a straight male is tremendous fun and …
Nov 10 2022
re outdoor advertising – EXCELLENT POINT
“But there are other loopholes on French pavements. In Lille, as in Paris, shops are considered private spaces, and not subject to local advertising rules. So all kinds of shopfronts – from chemists to hairdressers and tech shops to trainer emporiums – can put up screens just behind their windows, beaming digital video into the …
Nov 05 2022
Misconduct of the Heart, Cordelia Strube – HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
(No, it’s not a love story/romance.) It’s a must-read for “knobs [who] lose their shit over phones dying” (p5). (And anyone who even thinks of joining the military.)
Oct 30 2022
Three Rules, Phyllis Chesler
Three Rules: The measure of your success is the resistance you encounter. Embrace it. You can’t be a bystander without being complicit. We don’t need a room of our own. We need a very large continent of our own. Read the whole piece at https://4w.pub/our-feminist-revolution/.
Oct 30 2022
Out with the literary canon?
I used to think that ‘Out with the literary canon altogether’ was going too far, but now … Name one work conventionally considered part of the traditional literary canon that does not subordinate women—their existence, their presence, their importance, what they say, what they do … And so by continuing to grant the work such …
Oct 27 2022
And there it is again … this time in Rob Grant’s Colony
And there it is again, this time in Rob Grant’s Colony: the belief that babies just … happen (they’re brought by a stork or found in a cabbage patch, perhaps?). “Everyone finally agrees that global warming is a serious problem, now they’re up to their necks in water. And as the land masses shrink, as …
Oct 25 2022
“Straight White Male: the lowest difficulty setting” – a brilliant metaphor by John Scalzi
Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is If I’d read this before I wrote Jess, I certainly would have mentioned Scalzi’s metaphor and given huge applause and thanks to him for it! (Actually, I might not have written Jess, because Scalzi’s metaphor achieves the same purpose with such … economy.) The piece is …
Oct 23 2022
The Privilege of Men, Judith Mazzucco
The Privilege of Men by Judith Mazzucco starts as an unremarkable novel about the meat industry, but then WHAM! the metaphor in chapter 16— At least I think, I hope, it’s a metaphor and not something that’s actually happening somewhere right now. Though—and I’m not sure whether this is Mazzucco’s point or whether she’s ‘just’ …
Oct 20 2022
Apologies Women Need to Make (McSweeney’s List)
Brilliantly done! https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/apologies-women-need-to-make-sorry-its-true
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