Another flowchart

Idea totally ripped off from Gary Dauphin’s Should I use blackface in my blog? flowchart. I find Visio a lot easier to work with, though it doesn’t allow any sort of easy image mapping in HTML that I can tell. More tinkering is clearly needed.

Meanwhile, I present for your enjoyment an examination of how fraught [...]

August 19th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Everything, LJ XPost | 5 comments

Us vs. Them

I got an e-mail last night that got me thinking. It was from someone who’d taken exception to the language I used in my latest “Dear White People…” post. At issue were many interrelated things, but one primary concern expressed to me was my choice of the pronoun “you” when I spoke to and about [...]

July 30th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Everything, LJ XPost | Leave a comment

A cool scoring system!

It seems to me that this kind of system could be used for other -isms aside from sizeism, but the folks over at Big Fat Blog have a new scoring system for blog entries and other Internet sources that support reader comments. The scoring system is based on both the tenor of the original article/post/entry [...]

July 18th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Everything, LJ XPost | Leave a comment