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Female Scotus Pick

By ~LS~ On May 22, 2009 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Politics, Race and Racism and tagged Tagged With: Feminism, Politics, Sexism

An email I sent to reporter Lynn Sweet in response to a post she made on Politics Daily on why Obama should appoint a woman to the Supreme Court:

I’m writing to you about a phrasing that you wrote in the lead to your SCOTUS post. The lead to your article reads: “So a new Gallop poll shows “no clamor” for President Obama to select a woman or minority to the Supreme Court vacancy being created by the departure of Justice David Souter.”

Your lead calls to mind an old book entitled _But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men_.

The point in this title is that not all women are white, that there are minority women too, and those women get elided when we write about “women” and “minorities” as separate categories. Now, I recognize that you are simply parroting [...]

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Migrating to a New Computer

By ~LS~ On May 22, 2009 · Add Comment · In How to do stuff, Technology, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Computer

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Letting the days go by – On my blog

By ~LS~ On May 14, 2009 · 2 Comments · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Blogging, Goals, Gratitudes, Threes

Facebook has changed the way I blog. I haven’t blogged since December, and even then it was only a single entry. Prior to the election, I only randomly surfed HuffPo when I was bored. As the election gave way to Obama’s cabinet selections and his first 100 days, I became addicted to following him in the news. You would think that this addiction would lead to more blogging, but it didn’t. At the time I figured out that all my blog posts would just point to the Huffington Post (the way HuffPo basically just points to the New York Times). So when I occasionally found an interesting, off-the-beaten-path link, I would just post it to Facebook.

I also got out of the habit of blogging in the Fall because I was teaching an overload. Boy, I will never do that again. Teaching an overload for me is like hitting critical [...]

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