This is reprinted from my Google+ post this morning, based on early morning musings. I want to keep it and Google+ makes that hard to do, so I’m keeping it here too.
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I had occasion yesterday to confront a group of colleagues about bias in word and idiom choice (i.e. “Chinese fire drill”) in conversation at a meeting and had mixed results with the different individuals involved. Largely the response to a letter I wrote yesterday was both in public and in private positive. I did have [...] We had a solid turnout of our core Thanksgrievers/Thanksgivers. [...] I want to apologize if someone’s already said something like this. I need to write it up anyway, because it’s mine too. [...] Often when I get sick (as I apparently am now with some stomach bug thing), I break out the musicals. I’ve watched an American in Paris and have now moved on to The King and I. I have no idea when we got the King and I, but it’s in our collection, so I broke [...] Honestly, these ridiculous fantasies our politicians are bandying about are horrifyingly simple. I wrote the majority of this essay up on the plane. [...] Sinfest is a webcomic that’s not safe for anyone really. But it’s cutesy and it’s sometimes brilliant. Like this one (yes I’m reading the back-strips). Changes… [...] Various updates, including another about the 2nd gravlax, the letter I wrote to the president, etc. [...] It’s been an informative few days. I want to declare publicly that while I am Hanne Blank’s partner, her words are hers and mine are mine. Any conflation of the two is solely the responsibility of the conflater. Otherwise, I need to take leave of the discussions about activism, race, racism, etc. These discussions are [...] |
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