Bush’s chief political adviser, Rove said in a speech Wednesday that “liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.” Conservatives, he told the New York state Conservative…
Archive for June, 2005
Jun 23 2005
Did… did you just say that?
Jun 23 2005
The libertarian in me is angry
Two news items from CNN.
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that local governments may seize people’s homes and businesses — even against their will — for private economic development.
The 5-4 ruling represented a defeat for some Connecticut residents whose homes…
Jun 21 2005
The Great Waste Land: Sexual Normativity in Two Works of Modernism
[get the PDF] [updated 25 January 2006]
The advent of literary Modernism in the early 20th century fueled a larger cultural movement. By the 1920s, women across the globe were winning the right to vote and work as the cult of…
Jun 21 2005
A book meme, part something
Lauren provides all her readers with another meme.
Number of Books That You Own:
I’m at work, so I really have no idea. It’s close to 2 full bookshelves, but I’m horrible at spatial reasoning, so I can’t even begin to estimate…
Jun 15 2005
The God of Small Things
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy- Publisher: Harper Perennial
- Year: 1998
- Pages: 336
- See the rest of this year’s listings
- What is 52 Books in 52 Weeks?
- №19
A female writer publishes a book, in English, containing numerous unabashed references to sex, incest, and feminism that anger a lot…
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Jun 14 2005
The loudness race and audio compression
The Loudness Race: the aim of pop music producers to create sounds that are bigger and louder in order to sound “better” on the radio. It’s a sickness, really. Abou talked about it almost a year ago, though unfortunately the site…