Ex Cathedra

Sometimes you read an article that makes you go
“OMG! OMG! OMG! How simple it is!”
p.s., in case you aren’t another software engineer, simple is hard.
You may have noticed that here’s a trend growing called sex positive feminism that assumes that sex work is a valid and life affirming choice, not something sex [...]

First Obama was an “elitist,” despite having comparatively little to do with the wealth and power elites who are actually running the country.
The latest word the corporate media are slinging at Obama is “presumptuous.”
Does that mean “uppity”?
Just askin’.

When I heard him talk about Alice at SIGGRAPH a few years ago, I thought his team had the wrong answer. I thought the team I was on had the right answer. I won’t speak for my friends. Now I know I didn’t even know the right question.
He died today. He’s still teaching. [...]

I don’t understand that word. I’m 6. I’m 10. I have brown hair. I have brown and gray hair. I’m a a management trainee. I’m a Y director. i’m an engineer I’m a student at Lebanon Junior high, but i’m in first grade. I’m in Baldwin High School, a sophomore. I’m a married [...]

When you write your opinions, use strong or crude language. I first learned this when I facilitated a presentation to the Board of Management of Wilmerding YMCA. This is in the days when white people wanted to listen to black people, in contrast to today when white people want to tell black people things.
In part [...]

This is a sermon to me as much as to anybody else.
Despising Republicans and conservatives and even libertarians is faulty aim. Don’t despise what they are, despise what they do. Don’t despise the collectivity: there are some vicious bigots out there who will shrug it right off. They’re libertarians, not those trailer trash [...]

King Lincoln Bronzeville v. Blackwell
Keep that in your memories (well, not on your hard drives if Republican operatives get anywhere near them).
Start on Bradblog
Consider this tomorrow’s news today.
King Lincoln Bronzeville v. Blackwell
h/t: Democratic Underground

Desperation is beginning to set in on the McCain campaign:
DETROIT (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain
commented on Friday on the unannounced timing of a high-security trip by
Barack Obama to Iraq, saying he believed his Democratic rival was going
this weekend.
But McCain’s spokesman said [...]

Amber Rhea, who is on top of my list of the people I would hate the most to have after me when I do wrong, wrote a brilliant list of how to be a feminist ally. I won’t quote them all here. Read them on her site and the sites she’s linked to.
I can [...]

If you have a few spare minutes, please google the two words in the subject line. search news or the web. It’s all good,
I’ve seldom seen anything funnier than the reaction of the religious right to this story. And believe me, the religious right can be plenty funny.
Although some of the articles are straight [...]