WAR IS PEACE

Oh that’s infuriating. I’m glad my department takes women’s writing and feminist theory seriously—but there are still people that I will not share a classroom with for this exact reason.

Words can have multiple meanings, but because the connection between word and meaning is arbitrary, so is the boundary of the meanings—for instance, the distinction between blue and green doesn’t exist in every language. Would that therefore require you to conclude that green and blue are actually synonyms, given that…

You’re still coming against the object/language dichotomy. An open-faced sandwich is an object described in its relation to a second object—that is, it is like a sandwich, but because it is only like it, it cannot be it. In the same sense, a rice wine is not a wine, a horseless carriage isn’t a carriage, and a dwarf…

Well, is a failed object the same as a successful one? I’d say that a window that was broken during installation was never actually a window. So no.

And if it had more water, the Sahara wouldn’t be a desert. Changing the object doesn’t prove your point.

Niemeyer also believes so strongly in bodily privacy that he doesn’t believe in abortion rights. What a wonderful (human?) being.

Oh, Dinosaur Comics. You always have the answer.

Extra points if the groom’s gay best man turns out, also, to be One of The Guys (TM).

Open-faced sandwiches are bad and should feel bad. If an open-faced sandwich is a sandwich, then so is toast with butter and jam, and I will not stand for it.

Flour is absolutely authentic for a burrito. Corn would never stand up to a burrito, structurally. Besides, the burrito was invented by the Pueblo people in New Mexico, so Mexican food doesn’t have anything to do with it.

The true genius is in the question: is a hotdog a sandwich when you turn it sideways? The answer is clearly YES just like a regular old, sausage-on-top hotdog is clearly NOT A SANDWICH.

Built a house nobody would want that you never intended to live in? At 100 years old, no less. Wth.

Biology only becomes important when culture makes it important, a la Judith Butler.

This might be crazy talk, but I’ve always assumed that Hillary doesn’t think about being president at every moment and so her motivation for doing something isn’t always the result of how it’ll play in Kansas. Every other interpretation is too tin-foil hat for me.

38 page recipe is some bullshit. Bread is flour, yeast, water, and time.

Same.

Seriously thought that was Jane Lynch there for a second.

Lovely, fantastic read. Thanks for sharing.

It should be uncnstitutional to have spleling airs in local ordinaries,