This is a fake tumblr and a real quickfix. Longer stuff at run.ltw. Email fathima.
Ali Eteraz at True/Slant » Muslims Should Raise the Other Finger
“Collective responsibility cannot, and should not, be accepted. Where one accepts collective responsibility one opens the door to collective punishment.”
Quick metapost — I’ve moved the quickfix posts that could have correctly been classified short blogposts to the blog, retaining this section for links and such only.
(Shoutout to Funkaoshi, whose site finally got me to put this in place, after I’d been mulling over it forever.)
Jill and Matt Met at Work
I loved this. It’s quite an amazing piece of work.
Then I read the comments. Oh ye douchebags of the Internet.
The Guardian » Trapped in his own body for 23 years - the coma victim who screamed unheard
“Laureys, a neurologist at the University of Liege in Belgium, published a study in BMC Neurology earlier this year saying Houben could be one of many cases of falsely diagnosed comas around the world. He discovered that although Houben was completely paralysed, he was also completely conscious — it was just that he was unable to communicate the fact.”
Dear God.
CommentsCanWest News » University-educated immigrants are underemployed in Canada
“The proportion of immigrants earning less than $10 an hour was 1.8 times higher than Canadian-born workers, and the share of immigrants earning more than $35 an hour is lower than the Canadian-born. The average weekly hours of immigrants in their main job was 38.3 hours last year, just slightly more than the 38.1 hours of Canadian-born workers, and immigrants are less likely to work paid or unpaid overtime.”
My Parents Never Taught Me Arabic
Give me this.
I’m kind of embarrassed by how hard I’m studying.
Commentsyo. i read a judgement just now where the judge ended a sentence with an exclamation mark. it was, independent of the !, a good sentence. but the ! is helping me keep going.
CommentsPatrick Moberg » Internet Vices
Huh. I have this sudden urge to do a lot of things I know I shouldn’t be doing.
(via salonika)
But I don’t want to turn into a perennial napper. I want to sleep the sleep of the deserving, not this surreptitious grabbing of 40 guilty winks.
Blergh.
