Universal Magic
I’ve borked my blog software installation again1, so instead of troubleshooting what’s wrong, I’m just going to dump a bunch of article tidbits for your amusement. No gambling.
“Ten Years Ago: David Brooks, Iraq War Hawk” bit.ly/12yaOJT
— Seth Anderson (@swanksalot) March 8, 2013
and…
“consumers are requested to forward the text message to 7726, which is a central repository for spam messages” nyti.ms/YfuxFC
How We Realized Putting Radium in Everything Was Not the Answer zite.to/Xtqjyw
Russian Police Say Dancer and Two Others Confess to Bolshoi Attack http://nyti.ms/YWjROq
A Locust Plague, Shy of Biblical Proportions, in Israel http://nyti.ms/Zh8yz3
Maryland Senate Votes to Abolish Death Penalty – on.wsj.com/YdQ15P
Illinois Medical Marijuana House Committee Vote: Panel OKs Pot Plan, Full House Vote Next zite.to/12xxlGB
Scary Dairy Proposal: Aspartame in Kids’ Milk zite.to/13Jr3DB
Government Takes Legal Action Over Phone Spam – nyti.ms/Yfu7iB about goddamn time
The Vendor Client relationship – in real world situations: youtu.be/R2a8TRSgzZY all to frequently true…
Interior Department Nominee Questioned on Public Lands Development, via @nytimes nyti.ms/YPk5oe
Take What You Have Gathered From Coincidence
“After the 9/11 attacks, CNN reported, Acxiom was able to locate 11 of the 19 hijackers in its database.” bit.ly/12yoFzD
— Seth Anderson (@swanksalot) March 8, 2013
“The Republicans strategy of rewriting history in order to rewrite our present is anything but funny.” bit.ly/Yhgvn8
— Seth Anderson (@swanksalot) March 8, 2013
“Kids on food stamps don’t eat any healthier” reut.rs/10hSjEe
— Seth Anderson (@swanksalot) March 8, 2013
Celebrated author, speechwriter and columnist Peggy Noonan: Obama made Pittsburgh depressing because he di… zite.to/15CSj4O
— Seth Anderson (@swanksalot) March 9, 2013
Whole Foods to Require Labels on Genetically Modified Food: The grocery chain announced on Friday that it woul… nyti.ms/VRbzJP
— NYT Food & Drink (@nytimesfood) March 9, 2013
Man has 75% of skull replaced with 3-D printed implant zite.to/WzvNcB
— Seth Anderson (@swanksalot) March 9, 2013
When Bowie met Burroughs zite.to/14FvdrV
— Seth Anderson (@swanksalot) March 9, 2013
and finally
can’t forget to mention Katha Pollit’s defense of Sheryl Sandberg:
Who’s Afraid of Sheryl Sandberg?
With the publication of Lean In, a feminist-accented self-help book for college-educated young women with bright prospects, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg provoked such wrath among feminists that some of them couldn’t even wait to read the book before condemning it as a rich woman’s vanity project. Talk about leaning in! She’s been mocked as a Silicon Valley Marie Antoinette. She’s been equated with Marissa Mayer, the Yahoo CEO who scorns feminism and abolished working from home for her employees—never mind that Sandberg embraces feminism, the word and the movement, and devoted three whole chapters to combining work and family life in saner, fairer ways. The trouble is not that women are attacking women, but that they are using sexist tropes. Melissa Gira Grant, for example, chides Sandberg for having “staff to help keep house, raise her children and throw her women’s leadership dinners.” Grant means to contrast Sandberg’s privileges with the insecure lives of working-class women (not that she knows how much Sandberg and her husband pay their staff, or even that they are women). But the very fact that the morality of hiring nannies and cleaners and—no! not that!—caterers pops up only when a powerful woman is discussed shows how gendered the attack on Sandberg is. Message to Grant: these people work for Sandberg’s husband too.
(click here to continue reading Who’s Afraid of Sheryl Sandberg? | The Nation.)
That should give you something to read for a moment…
Footnotes:- WordPress widgets are broken – cannot add, delete, or modify anything on my sidebar over there on the right. Probably a conflict with a plugin, or some other problem. Daylight savings has sapped my energy at the moment, so I really don’t feel like digging in and fixing it today, especially since I don’t yet know the solution [↩]