A few links to recommend before I get to the Liberal Coalition blogaround and then, later this afternoon, to watching our DVR'ed Colbert WHPCA dinner speech which everyone and their blogger has already reviewed:
• First I just wanted to say RIP John Kenneth Galbraith. I dimly recall he was the commencement speaker at my college graduation, and I say "dimly" because I had a raging fever and mononucleosis at the time so I don't remember too much.
• The latest culture war is another much-ado-about-nothing, exactly as the folks in power planned, dividing and conquering while they're busy doing things the media chooses not to notice because they're so busy talking about this nonsense. As Justin puts it, "¿Francis Scott Qué es el problema?" Amanda says our current anthem isn't all that anyway and she much prefers this one, as do I. Abdul-Halim at Planet Grenada, who repros the lyrics to Nuestro Himno, thinks this one might be a nice alternative as well, but it still has that pesky "G" word in it, doesn't it? And both Arthur and Lis present the Yiddishe version, nu? Meanwhile, Teresa tells us of her day in old English. I'm pleased that I actually understood most of it; my favorite phrase was "hwyth muchel Ibuprofennea."
• Speaking of dividing and conquering, Ampersand presents an interesting gathering of viewpoints in response to Blac(k)ademic's post Gender Does Not Trump Race. My feeling on this is, identity politics are good when they unite people with shared experience in a cooperative model as part of an effort to make this world better, and bad when they lead to a competitive attitude that mostly benefits the people with societal power who are only too happy to sit back while those they disdain fight amongst themselves. In other words, I agree with KC Sheehan as as well as with nubian's conclusions, with one exception: one of the first things I learned when I became a feminist was that cooperation is not only the way many women are socialized but it has a much greater chance for long-time success (and survival) than competition. And that was at the time of "second-wave feminism."
• A couple interesting pieces in CorrenteWire from a few days back, but I'm only just caught up in my blog-reading/skimming so it's taken me awhile. Sarah stirs up a bit of a tempest with this anti-drug post, which I think might have worked better if she'd just stuck to her lack of sympathy for celebrity drug-users. And chicago dyke tells uf a truly frightening new insurance policy aimed at churchgoers. She believes this is a sign that "With increasing speed, we are becoming a theocracy." I'm not sure that this isn't just another case of exploiting and capitalizing on religion as a gimmick; as a rule corporations tend to worship Mammon above all other gods.
• Richard at PopPolitics has a nice little riff on stereotypes of women in sports.
• Rosie's on The View because BabaWawa asked.
• Soj announces her return to America at both her blogs. I'm guessing the latter will be undergoing a name change soon...
• Lastly, meet the Smuggys!
• First I just wanted to say RIP John Kenneth Galbraith. I dimly recall he was the commencement speaker at my college graduation, and I say "dimly" because I had a raging fever and mononucleosis at the time so I don't remember too much.
• The latest culture war is another much-ado-about-nothing, exactly as the folks in power planned, dividing and conquering while they're busy doing things the media chooses not to notice because they're so busy talking about this nonsense. As Justin puts it, "¿Francis Scott Qué es el problema?" Amanda says our current anthem isn't all that anyway and she much prefers this one, as do I. Abdul-Halim at Planet Grenada, who repros the lyrics to Nuestro Himno, thinks this one might be a nice alternative as well, but it still has that pesky "G" word in it, doesn't it? And both Arthur and Lis present the Yiddishe version, nu? Meanwhile, Teresa tells us of her day in old English. I'm pleased that I actually understood most of it; my favorite phrase was "hwyth muchel Ibuprofennea."
• Speaking of dividing and conquering, Ampersand presents an interesting gathering of viewpoints in response to Blac(k)ademic's post Gender Does Not Trump Race. My feeling on this is, identity politics are good when they unite people with shared experience in a cooperative model as part of an effort to make this world better, and bad when they lead to a competitive attitude that mostly benefits the people with societal power who are only too happy to sit back while those they disdain fight amongst themselves. In other words, I agree with KC Sheehan as as well as with nubian's conclusions, with one exception: one of the first things I learned when I became a feminist was that cooperation is not only the way many women are socialized but it has a much greater chance for long-time success (and survival) than competition. And that was at the time of "second-wave feminism."
• A couple interesting pieces in CorrenteWire from a few days back, but I'm only just caught up in my blog-reading/skimming so it's taken me awhile. Sarah stirs up a bit of a tempest with this anti-drug post, which I think might have worked better if she'd just stuck to her lack of sympathy for celebrity drug-users. And chicago dyke tells uf a truly frightening new insurance policy aimed at churchgoers. She believes this is a sign that "With increasing speed, we are becoming a theocracy." I'm not sure that this isn't just another case of exploiting and capitalizing on religion as a gimmick; as a rule corporations tend to worship Mammon above all other gods.
• Richard at PopPolitics has a nice little riff on stereotypes of women in sports.
• Rosie's on The View because BabaWawa asked.
• Soj announces her return to America at both her blogs. I'm guessing the latter will be undergoing a name change soon...
• Lastly, meet the Smuggys!
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