Wear Clean Draws  (because there’s 5 million ways to kill a ceo)

good god. monday, i forgot to bring a book to work. i dropped into the bookstore and picked up Bitch magazine to read at lunch. I read about a woman who twittered her abortion and the attacks she received.
why i am surprised that jezebel readers accused her of being a baiter for the rightwing, i […]

good article on the quackery promoted by Winfrey:
One frequent guest who offers good advice on how to lose weight and stay healthy is Dr. Mehmet Oz, a Turkish-Amer ican surgeon at Columbia Uni versity. However, Oz, who now has his own spin-off show, promotes a variety of high-priced food supplements, such as acai berry, MonaVie, […]

*rolls eyes to back of head*
good grief. i get back from vacation and get to read romaniticizing bullshit about breastfeeding on the loblist! capitalist pigs hate breast feeding, yanno? coz it combines pleasure, sex, and food and that combination is subversive, doncha know. ferfucksake!
when i was little, i used to sit near my mother’s feet […]

and melissa harris-lacewell = idiot tool.

good lard save me from the essentializing crappola! brownfemipower is writing about working class men and i just want to scream. i really dislike the implicit assumption that, somehow, it is only working class men and women who are owned by corporations, that what it means to be working class is to do manual labor […]

At lbo, Dennis Claxton dropped a link to something Michael Berube wrote at his blog. Basically, Berube read the same Michaels I did, not the one fantasized by Henwood. He wrote about it in his blog post, criticized him in similar ways to the ways I had. Only Berube is much funnier than moi.
When Doug […]

Michaels chapter on religion is, I think, a skeleton key to what he’s about. He seems to have taken to heart whatever he learned in rhetoric classes and spent a career elevating all the reasons why you shouldn’t use ad hominem into a theory that has all the analytical subtlety of the cudgel you […]

Chuck Grimes pointed me at a post about Walter Benn Michaels by Lou Proyect. I dropped by to ask him his opinion. I left the link to WBM’s talk at Harvard and listened to it again as I was packing. At Lou’s blog, people challenged him on his interpretation of WBM and Lou concedes that […]

Honestly, Walter Benn MIchaels really is a piece of work. I’ve been packing my stuff to move, and so I have plenty of time to think about this one particular chapter. It starts out, helpfully (!), to show that it’s just not race that’s a problem, but also other things like gender. (Of course, don’t […]

So, one of the other things I didn’t address in Walter Been Michaels’ book, The Trouble with Diversity, was the chapter, Just and Unjust Rewards. It seems to begin as an attempt disarm critics who might argue that he is singling out race when it comes to diversity. To really be fair, and not […]

pfizer, the company that was found to be illegally promoting neurontin a few years back, which I wrote about as part of my ramblings about Melody Petersen’s book, _Our Daily Meds_, is in the news again. Pfizer was hit with the largest fine ever for, once again, using illegal tactics to promote drugs — in […]

i have to say, in trying to explain why Other people were bad people who should be paid n attention, she described exactly why i no longer read her.
the post itself exemplifies the behavior she is criticizing. these ones over there, they do X and its bad and destructive to healthy debate (which implies […]

initially, i thought huffpo ought to stop swilling grape juice-laced sterno. but on second thought, i realized: they ought to keep on indulging, the ratfuckers.
if i understand this correctly, they are asking that people donate at least 13k to work for them. total scum.

you know, when I first started riding the Internet, I would occasionally mouth off about something that I knew little about. After getting caught out on that behavior, I stopped mouthing off so much.
I dropped by bgp’s blog and saw a post castigating black men or, at least, one black man of suggesting that black […]

in a discussion thread at lbo, where people were talking about a gawker piece about how lacking in radicality today’s young people are, i had a little sarcastic rant. mostly because, as anyone who’s paid attention to the 60s know, the so-called radicals were a pretty teensy weensy part of society then and, today, nothing […]

Even though the gay community is made up of people of different ethnicities, races, cultures, and class backgrounds, it’s public face is pure over privileged white male. Right after the passing of prop 8 all over the news the white male gay leaders came out in force to verbally protest.
honestly. I think, collectively, a […]

dog almighty, i’ve had one shitty day. a shitty week. and it’s only tuesday. a woman i work with once said something that had me practically pissing myself in a meeting. as she listened to some news that annoyed, she started to write a note to herself, saying out loud, “Repeat again: It is illegal […]

i give up on the u.s. left. we were having some discussion of racism and i pointed out that there is racial bitory/prejudice (individual level behavior) and there is structural racism (which isn’t necessarily about people having bad ideas about blacks or mexicans, etc. etc.) well, what came out of that was that it turns […]

On lbo, they are having a delightful conversation, first about abortion and how, *sob* we all should just feel horrible that women must choose abortion because it’s just terrible terrible terrible to kill all those undead babies. *sob* and now, because Dwayne Monroe has actually been trying to have a reasonable discussion with someone I’ve […]

I think you were wrong about what you said last night, Gary. For those who don’t know, Gary’s an old friend of mine and we yakked on the phone for about four hours last night. Anyway, I think Gary and I might have it wrong about blogging and memory. I don’t know if it’s […]

2007-05-16 20:10:40
Little Light wrote:
B|L, I’m honestly a little surprised at you. Yes, some of these criticisms are sophomoric or by people who haven’t read the book. But you’re treating substantive arguments the same way as the idle sniping. I don’t care whether or not you agree with the critiques offered, but some of these […]