Serenity… an expedition

Well, maybe, I don’t know – but the study behind this London Sunday Times story wouldn’t support the conclusion.

Craig Silverman at CJR has this somewhat odd story:
Dr. Aaron Sell, a researcher at the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California, has been hearing from a lot of [...]

Okay, not really.

So, I decided to start dipping my toes back into poliblogging – very reluctantly, which is why there is next to nothing on here to reflect that decision – and part of that is also beginning to visit some of the bigger white feminist sites again as, of course, for me as [...]

One puzzling question I’ve been seeing, reading various poliblogs, goes something like – where is the far Left in this country (U.S.)?
My immediate thought – well, it’s right here, in many on and offline communities of color, in Labor, in some feminism, in some liberalism. In other words, pretty much where it’s always [...]

A great answer to a stupid, and frequent, accusation.
Teaspoons 101: I Am Not the Thought Police
by Melissa McEwan

[...]I am not the thought police.
I am challenging you to think about things in a way in which you may have never thought about them before.
The entire rest of the world, with its privileging of men and [...]

Liberals who find out they’ve spent years and millions underwriting conservative ideology.
Forums | WholeFoodsMarket.com.

In the past few days I’ve read a few things, mostly related to Eric Boehlert’s new book, Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press that, of course, brought back many memories of the primaries – and the massive, massive failure of most feminists and feminist and progressive sites in navigating [...]

Doesn’t that question puzzle you? It did me, when I first heard it. And every time since. My reaction when I first heard it was – well, what isn’t a feminist issue?
I think that question – and the context in which it is usually posed, whether as an inquiry in comments or  precursor to an [...]

I mean, Iowa. Who’da thought?
A (primarily) white state that was pivotal in ensuring the potentially first Black president got a fair hearing in the rest of the US.
And now becoming the first Midwest state to strike down anti-marriage equality laws.
Good for them.

Obama, that is,  although I think she has almost reached one name status.
I do, though, love the fashion stories – I know it’s reductive, that they often focus on her looks and what she is wearing instead of her intellect and personal achievements, and so on, but still… I love them. I even have been [...]

Yeah, I don’t know… I’ve had the flu for the past few days so I may not be tracking all that well or making that much sense, but this just seems a bit um… Cosbyesque to me. (It also seems to replicate some of the same “I have no real idea what blogging is about [...]