Yep, I didn’t understand why the author said congress rarely executes this power, from my recollection, they do it all the fucking time. Gun control, LGBTQ protections, pot, what have you. It’s a messed up system.

The backdrop of engineering, math, and physics is great for showing the pettiness of institutional and personal bias. Scientists, more so that most other professions are supposed to listen to the observation and argument rather than the authority of the speaker. Dismissing someone for being a woman or black exposes…

She really is unbelievably pretty, isn’t she? I think she would look great in most styles, but the sixties dresses were just fabulous on her.

That’s the true injustice, it’s not an entry level job. So much of science relies upon skilled craftspeople, like the calculators, wet chemical workers, or tinkerers, but this work is viewed and compensated as entry level work when it was done by women or non-white folks. The best people at these jobs are true…

I don’t understand twitter, and am not a user, but I agree. Trump is one end result for twitter, and the way he uses it as a platform to bully, lie, boast, propagandize, and distance himself from the awful shit he wants to say is reason enough to view twitter as a failed platform.

I don’t thinking being married and have children precludes being a feminist, but I do think the way our society casts women as wife and mother makes it much harder to recognize women as feminists who have chosen your path. Childless marrieds less so, but mothers are so harshly policed by our societal expectations of…

Fantastic piece Madeleine. I’ve been filled with a growing rage that I’ve struggled to describe to myself, I only know that I’m desperate to do something about it but I don’t know what. Your desire to discomfort those who oppress us by intent, complicity, or negligence is exactly what I’ve been feeling. I work in a…

I’m near sighted, but I’ve had had my eyes on those multicolored frame reading glasses you see women over fifty often wearing. I’m going to get me a pair when the bifocals come.

That was my thought as well, the book of Kells, for one is an amazingly beautiful example of an illuminated gospel. I have a NSRV Oxford annotated bible that’s has footnotes on almost every page. I don’t think a child ever deserves social media harassment, but this girl is being harassed by people who are very poorly…

I don’t think Preibus intended to call Trump a king, I think he was just sending out an annoyingly preachy Christmas greeting despite his position as one of the most powerful secular leaders in the country.

In general I agree. Hasan Minaj on the daily show (who is kind of killing it lately) responded to the I’m not racist, I’m just pro Trump argument with that those people don’t hate him, but have decided to not care about him. And fuck them for that.

Maternal mortality and unintended teen pregnancy rates in Texas are among the highest in the nation, and have been rising since our state has taken punitive, short sided action against women’s health. The ill efffects have fallen most harshly on residents of the Rio Grand Valley, who vote democratic in most elections.…

I had no reason to ever doubt Ms Heard’s accusations against Depp, but if I had, the way he has drawn out divorce proceedings and used his lawyers to engage and punish her publically would remove any doubt. What an abusive motherfucker. Man I loved him so much on 21 Jumpstreet. Such a disappointment.

Yes, picked the wrong one, Cronon is N environmental historian, and part of his scholarship is devoted to changing climate. It’s part of why he was a target. Also because he is an incredible writer and very persuasive.

What professor isn’t kind of a dick?

Except they will and they have: http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/wisconsin-the-cronon-affair

The University of Wisconsin is under siege. The state legislature is strangling it for funding and exerting ever more control over course materials. Outrageously low wages and ever diminishing benefits have made UW struggle to attract and retain staff, and the stature of the University has fallen.

I have spent the last two months just watching parks and recreation over Andy over. I highly recommend it. Pawnee is a much more pleasant world than ours.

Garth Brooks performed the day before Obama’s inauguration in 2008 at the we are one concert. He was great, got the entire crowd dancing more that Beyoncé, Springsteen, or even Pete Seeger, which wasn’t what’s you would expect from a DC audience.

HBR does a podcast, they had an episode interviewing a woman who had studied to become a wealth manager to the super rich to learn about their culture (she is a sociologist). Her description was repellent in general, but her conclusion was truly scary in light of Trump: for the uber wealthy, there are no laws or…