Category Archives: Class, poverty, labor, & related issues

Happy Labor Day

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Ampersand

Via Unequally Yoked. (Why yes, that is Batman.)

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Political cartoon: How Democracy Works

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Ampersand

[spoiler]The cartoon has three panels. Each panel shows a crowd of milling citizens, who vary in sex, race, and age, yelling up to a giant white man wearing a suit and tie. The giant’s head is far distant from the … Continue reading →

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Fair is fair: Kindergarten and the American Dream

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Grace Annam

Kindergarten showcases many basic principles which most of us learn there or at our parents’ knees:  take turns, share the toys, fair is fair, and so on.  Later on, “fair is fair” gets refined in many ways, one of which … Continue reading →

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Unexpectedly, Grace

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Grace Annam

Amp has very kindly granted me permission to guest-blog at Alas!.  This is daunting:  the signal-to-noise ratio here is astonishingly high, even though the topics are often fraught.  I asked Amp delicately for guidance.  He cheerfully told me to write … Continue reading →

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Once Again, Bernard-Henri Lévy Defends Rape

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Jeff Fecke

You’re a rich white man, and you’ve raped someone less important and more female than you are. And now the authorities are daring to treat you — yes, you! — as if you were some sort of common, middle-class rapist. … Continue reading →

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A Messed-Up Libertarianism

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Ampersand

A quote from libertarian Jim Henley, via LOOG: Most libertarians would agree that it’s a messed-up state that: * Creates a massive crime problem in poor minority neighborhoods with a futile, vicious and every more far-reaching attempt to prevent commerce … Continue reading →

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The Least of These

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Jeff Fecke

You know, I’m awfully hard on Republicans, but maybe I shouldn’t be. After all, they’re coming up with some unbelievably creative, out-of-the-box solutions to the many problems we face. Take government waste. Decadent coastal liberals like me like to point … Continue reading →

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Deconstructing Sheri Tepper’s 2008 Interview with Strange Horizons

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Mandolin

So, someone asked me what was so offensive about Tepper’s interview. After reading her comments, I’m convinced that it might actually be helpful to some people if I did a deconstruction. I don’t usually fisk things because it’s a format … Continue reading →

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Why Sentence Diagramming Does Not Make You Superior, An Argument In Support of Those Kids Today

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Mandolin

I have been ranting today on the subject of grammar. It’s all Ann Leckie’s fault. Or possibly Jacqueline Howett’s. For those of you who have not followed the blog explosion, self-published author Jacqueline Howett has been busy imploding in the … Continue reading →

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It’s Not a Crime to be Poor. Yet.

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Jeff Fecke

You’ve gotta feel bad for the Minnesota Republican Party. Flip just 5,000 votes in the last gubernatorial election, and they’d be the ones gleefully dismantling civil society piece by piece. But no. Tom Emmer had to lose, and now Wisconsin … Continue reading →

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