Category: society
You can, too, help yourself
From Laurie Lou, and worth repeating in its entirety:
a lot has been said about how to prevent rape.
women should learn self-defense. women women should lock themselves in their houses after dark. women shouldn’t have long hair and women shouldn’t wear short skirts. women shouldn’t leave drinks unattended. fuck, they shouldn’t dare to get drunk at [...]
Find-A-Human
Via Jill, a list of ways to shortcut automatic phone menu systems to find a human. Paste it next to the phone (oh wait - the phone knows how to walk away).
I find myself longing for phones that are tied to walls by wires, and a drive in gas station - imagine, you could drive [...]
Algebra-free zone
If you think this sort of thing is amazing, you obviously have no grasp of algebra.
Today
Today, go read Dorothea’s entry Respect.
Fear of Humanity
Apparently American audiences can’t cope with the classical human form (even if it’s fake): NBC censors opening ceremony. Neither can we as a society tolerate mothers feeding babies: Mothers stage nurse-in.
Words had to change their meanings
To fit in with the change of events, words, too, had to change their usual meanings. What used to be described as a thoughtless act of aggression was now regarded as the courage one would expect to find in a party member; to think of the future and wait was merely another way of [...]
Flags at Half Mast on July 4th?
Via Fazia, a link to an article explaining the conflict between flag protocols: Honoring Reagan, Flag Day Rules Conflict.
I find all this flag protocol stuff interesting but simultaneously amusing; my father was a Foreign Service officer, so I’m intimately familiar with State Department diplomatic protocol, but my mother was a refugee from Nazi Germany who [...]
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