I know Tahera. She is the real deal, and a totally reasonable human being who gives everybody the benefit of the doubt. This is bullshit and shouldn’t happen to anyone. But it probably happens all the time, and I’m glad she’s in a position to call it out.
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No, no, no. Battle Ground/Amboy is the Florida of Washington. Vantucky is just fine, thanks.
Daaaamn! This song is my JAM. No matter what mood I’m in.. BAM.. I want roller skates, a dark room with hardwood floors and some jelly bracelets.. yesss.
No worries my sweet! Got lots of time for Wittgenstein as well! :D
aww, tacoma is neat. SOUTH tacoma, on the other hand...
I agree. And I have witnessed the same tendency. On the other hand, I have always thought the friendship and deep respect between Angela Davis and Harold Marcuse provides hope for a path forward. People tend to forget that Davis spent time studying Philosophy as an exchange student in Germany.
Part of the problem, imho, is that American society in general has bought into the idea that Liberalism=left=socialism[and sometimes = communism!]. Liberalism (at least in the classical Mill/Wollstonecraft version - and that is a bit of a span) has always been a tricky high-wire act between the collective good and…
Hello there! It absolutely is used in a variety of ways and meanings- angels, god/gods, judges, idols, etc. It is also used in plural form. But the point is it is used in plural forms accompanying plural nouns in relation to YHWH (one of the oldest terms for God in the Jewish faith).
Fair enough. I guess the problem is that not everyone will understand the concept of the sacred actually built into textualisation. Ships passing in the night. methinks- Wittgenstein alludes to this when he argues that a believer and a non-believer cannot argue about faith because the differences inherent in how they…
it is a truth universally known that the magnitude and ostentatiousness of the proposal is directly inverse to the success and forethought of the future marriage.
Please tell me you’ve wittily nicknamed her Lilith and that she wasn’t born with that name. If not, then she’s certainly living up to expectations!
The first time I read Euripides’ Cyclops, I was a college senior, and I didn’t notice the rape joke. Maybe I was too…
This was published in Science. Again, this was not wishy washy unknown Social Text, this was Science. Can I just say, I love science, but I also lurrrve it when so called science is published in respected magazines and revealed as a fraud. I’ve had enough with the shit being thrown at the humanities for not being…
Yeah, this is a “literal interpretation” of the Quran the same way the Rapture Narrative is a “literal reading” of the Book of Revelation. Make any old random, self-serving shit up, assure people that it’s based on what is the obvious reading of the sacred text to any true believer, boom, “literal interpretation.”…
Just one reason why we shouldn’t be calling them ISIS/ISIL/IS. We shouldn’t be giving them the legitimacy of a religion and a state with our language. Call them the Daesh, like many of their enemies in the region do.
I would have to guess Mark.
I’m a little concerned that TLC’s takeaway from this will be that a show about which pedo-supporting family is *the*worst* would be a hit...
I agree with you generally, but you’re talking about Americans defining American culture for ourselves, not Americans defining a predominantly Muslim culture for them by calling it sexist and therefore unworthy of our respect. That whole “[other culture] treats its women poorly!” trope gets used to justify a fuckload…
I feel for Chechens. First, Russia pretty much razes the country to the ground in the 90s. Then Putin installs this character right out of GoT to make life hell for the people. It’s like Putin and friends are throwing Russia back into the Middle Ages.