Just got off the phone with the professor who is my Comps Supervisor (which is explained in the second paragraph here) for this semester, and…
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“The End of Men: & the Rise of Women” by H. Rosin, part 4
Talking with male friends, the general consensus I hear seems to be that manhood is more about taking care of yourself so others do not…
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What’s even more weirdly interesting is that we’ve seen this sort of social upheaval in gender roles happen before — though we didn’t recognize it…
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Why did I find this book so disturbing? In some ways I completely agree with the author: “the picture emerging is a mirror image of…
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Required classes are over for me now — apparently I am now officially EBTD (Everything But The Dissertation) or ABD (All But Dissertation), depending on…
Continue ReadingGaia’s Gift: Earth, Ourselves and God after Copernicus by Anne Primavesi
This book was both a surprise and a delight; I very much enjoyed the reading. Gaia’s Gift is ordinarily presented as simply an analysis of…
Continue Reading“Ending Violent Crime Cheaply & Permanently” by Medicine Story, pt. 2
In a fascinating storytelling style, Medicine Story shares the startlingly successful program he and various other Native American elders created to assist incarcerated men. Initially…
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Ending Violent Crime Cheaply & Permanently: A Vision of A Society Free of Violence by Manitonquat (Medicine Story) is an astonishing little book — one…
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After reading The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs & Scott Kurashige, I confess my primary reaction was a…
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We have roofrats! OK, not really. The new landlords decided we need a new roof, so they informed us late Saturday night via email that…
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