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As Expected, GM Will Go into Bankruptcy Tomorrow
Spliff, thanks for the handy primer--wallet-sized! I guess all us scrubs better hit the linguistic lab in order to get put up on game... Holla! ;)— June 8, 2009 7:53 p.m.
Let’s Toast to Banning Booze
If a really good year (of the Margaux, not the tire company) made it to Burwell's radiator, I'd still drink it. However, I'd probably soon find myself staring down the barrel of a shotgun, or at a compensatorily thick wooden bat. Some get kicks from spirits, some just kick with too much spirit. Oh, hey you two--hrrummph, plotting on your own. Yes, I'm happy to meet anywhere. Live near the Gaslamp, so that's fine.— June 8, 2009 4:34 p.m.
Racquetball Rorschach
Someone I know came up with a fun variation on the dictionary game you mentioned, J.--you pick three words and make up the definitions for two of them. Then other players have to guess which is the correct. I remember a word something like "kwan," which sounded like a decoy, but ended up being real--something like the Chinese word for prostitute.— June 5, 2009 8:43 p.m.
As Expected, GM Will Go into Bankruptcy Tomorrow
"Either Spliff wants to make you his girlfriend or he wants to talk to you later." If it's the former, slow down Spliff! I meant you should consider the alternatively sexed, gendered, and preferenced as marginalized groups to be supported--you don't have to join--however sophisticated a choice Mr. Bauder would seem to be ;)— June 5, 2009 8:28 p.m.
Idiotic Football Players
SD's two cents: I do think you two have something to teach one another, but one cannot hear the other through the heat of rhetoric--and it isn't always clear when this is serious. Spliff, why not calm down on the punctuation, and explain to Josh some particulars about inherited racism, using reasonable language, and maybe he can hear you? Josh, why not open your mind to the possibility that we are influenced by subtle, inherited attitudes and assumptions? We don't examine our beliefs enough, and operate on a kind of autopilot, on what "feels" right. No one has complete control over his or her own consciousness and opinion. Examining ourselves 'unawares' can reveal these attitudes and assumptions. A simple, neutral example is when you used "Kobe" and "beef" in the same sentence, then did a double take. So-called Freudian slips and such inadvertent compulsions toward automatic association can and do reveal unquestioned, comfortable traditions of belief about people and what we expect of them based on race, ethnicity, gender, sex identifications. It is naive to think that these traditions do not inform even the briefest of exchanges with others; we have many complex apparatuses of social identification at work, that we examine no further than we do the automatic bodily processes, like breathing. Allow yourself and your mind some more complexity than you are used to doing, and marvel. Then, both of you, ask yourself what 100 years or so of shifting attitudes about race, or anything, for that matter, might have influenced how your family, your neighbors, how you tend to think? Society is tough on people who challenge the norm, what is normal. We are not "born" from, and they are not "born" from us; we share common ancestors and DNA with our simian friends. The dynamics of sex and gender differences may be tough to google, Spliff, so ask away, and I'll try to answer--from a cultural perspective. Remember, Spliff, if you really want to better racial and ethnic relations, it might be best to start with your own--do you really want to "other" those you identify as sexed or gendered differently than yourself--as the powerful norm? Spreading more hate and distrust of what is not yourself is not the answer. Embracing differences of sex and gender identity--whether you believe they are genetic or cultural in origin-- would seem to be a logical step on the path to that even playing field you seek for all, don't you think? As for any aspect of evolution, that is easy enough to research--if you really wanted to know, you would do so.— June 5, 2009 5:42 p.m.
Mesa College philosophy teacher gets used to online students
However poetic, hopefully MWAC will not have to be your new handle! I know you've already been through a lot of red tape with this. Let us know if you need people to vouch for you on this side of the fence.— June 5, 2009 3:42 p.m.
Mesa College philosophy teacher gets used to online students
Whoa! I can't imagine why they would deny it--you are a natural citizen. I hope this gets straightened out soon!— June 5, 2009 3:09 p.m.
Rubber Hose
Perfect! I'll be in the country this weekend, hopefully for lots of natural inspiration. Don't forget about the rose moon this Sunday eve, folks. It should be beautiful.— June 5, 2009 1:41 p.m.
Mesa College philosophy teacher gets used to online students
Get a grip on your puns, rg, and I'll stop pulling your leg :0 Speaking of "gore," I'm afraid to ask about yesterday...— June 5, 2009 1:36 p.m.
Rubber Hose
Ah, I like to lie on the floor and stare into my Mica's wildly striped and mascara'd eyes. Animals give us so much joy, and much to write about. You know, MsGrant, that just might be the ticket to get me out of my "Mercy Patient" funk. Surely that metaphor has worn itself thin. Perhaps we should all take it as assignment, and come up with a blog about what we've learned from animals--? Part deux, about your father, refried? Magics, here's a new idea to get you started, too?— June 5, 2009 1:19 p.m.