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    Thank you.  His death has forced a readjustment of many of my mental and emotional anchors.  For one, I am…
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  • My 20yo nephew did beautiful woodwork -- he and his siblings all were 4-H kids doing all kinds of handicrafts.…
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  • I find it deeply ironic and, well, fucked up that a woman "scholar" who used to (wrongly) bash feminists as…
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  • I'm not quibbling with your overall argument -- walls are bad policy.   However, I've never heard of a "Korean…
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  • The young women of Rutgers did absolutely nothing to call their characters into question other than play valiantly in defeat…
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  • Have you ever been close to anyone who committed suicide?  Do you have any idea of the suffering it causes…
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  • In a thread about connections between cyber-threats and murder, you ask me to name where I live?   I'm disengaging…
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  • When an armed robbery happens in the neighborhood of the elementary school where my sister teaches first grade, the school…
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  • The "gender-neutral" argument is itself the problem here.   Cyberviolence is NOT gender-neutral.  Women bloggers receive harassment and threats that…
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  • I've taught in college classrooms and will soon do so again.  Along with every academic I've spoken with this week,…
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  • That's exactly what I believe.   You're astonished that I would "make this into something involving sexism."  Likewise, I am…
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  • http://wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=888012 Here are the key passages that illustrate my point:   "He overpowered a deputy and took his pistol. Shots…
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  • Personally, I don't see what is so onerous about the concept of community standards, a general agreement and expectation that…
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  • I think that's not the most useful distinction.  A big university touches a lot of lives over the years.  And…
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  • I would take this thinking a step further.   Last August, at Virginia Tech, a gunman was on the loose…
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  • I've watched my teenager play violent video games for a long time now.  In most of them, you enter a…
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  • Bingo.  This was my first thought as well -- that this doctor would not have been out of place at…
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  • Take out a missile launch site in North Korea, and you'd trigger a war on the peninsula -- with tens…
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  • Leno's audience choosing not to buy products from his advertisers compromises no one's freedom of speech.  Rather, it is a…
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  • I stopped reading at this point:   Small wonder his mother killed herself. Once she discovered what a despicable soul…
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