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Peg Tittle
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May 30 2025
Freedom of Speech vs DEI initiatives
Margaret Munn – Defending Freedom of Speech in Canada: The Impact of DEI Initiatives
May 29 2025
Men ‘experience’ labour pain
Read the comments too, especially about the relative duration of the pain …
May 26 2025
Dear Committee Members, Julie Schumacher – delightful!
“… I argued that the arts are a form of diversity [which was] sadly characterized as ‘divisive’” p28 “… watching me pull at what remains of my hair while I stamp back and forth in paroxysms of incredulty caused by the half-baked ideas casually lobbed in my direction from the back of the room.” p55 …
May 25 2025
Does advertising really work? Prove it.
So this obsession on the internet with clickbait. I get that the more clicks on an ad, the more money the company will pay a website to have their ad on the site. And I get that more clicks mean the ad is being seen by more people. And I get that the more people …
May 14 2025
from “Emergency Skin” by N. K. Jemisin
” … the Founders told us that the Earth died because of greed. That was true, but they lied about whose greed was to blame. …” “What the Leaving proved was that the Earth could sustain billions, if we simply shared resources and responsibilities in a sensible way. What it couldn’t sustain was a handful …
May 11 2025
From Picoult’s By Any Other Name
“… he’d said the main character in her play was unrelatable, because she made questionable choices. At the time, he was producing a revival of Sweeney Todd, about a barber with anger-management issues who murdered his patrons.” p163 “Grief was the tax of having something precious.” p324
May 03 2025
“How could an interaction that …”
“How could an interaction that had colored the last decade of her life have been so forgettable to him?” from By Any Ohter Name, Jodi Picoult
Apr 14 2025
a couple good John Varley bits
“Humans are a time-binding species, existing, in the eternal now. The future flows through them and becomes the past, but it is always the present that counts.” from “Overdrawn on the Memory Bank” I’ve been thinking that I am UNlike my dog in this respect, in that SHE lives only in the present b/c she …
Mar 29 2025
The APA, Gender, and Sex – great post
The American Psychological Association – Out of Touch and Deep in the Gender Weeds.
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