Doublethink on GOP hypocrisy

Check Doublethink. They're running a series of articles, meticulously detailing Republican hypocrisy in matters of sex, morality, and race. Good stuff, and massively documented!

[Politics in the Zeros]

sometimes you just have to revisit your youth, and i've been considering buying the cd's of the tv show 'tales of the golden monkey' which some say is a rip-off of indiana jones, but really is a rip off of something else for some time. well they came in the mail today.

Not that i don't expect a whole slew of rejections for academic jobs, primarily because I tend not to fit expectations and i tend not to sell myself, but i figure this season i'll share a bit of the reasons, this one says:

although you have a well-rounded resume and had many of the qualifications that are of interest to us, we have identified candidates whose background and experience more closely match the combination of social scientific training and informatics skills we seek.

Which is fair enough to me, i don't know exactly what people are looking for, but i tend to have a feel that they aren't really looking for me exactly, usually they are looking for someone who is more disciplinary and institutionally normal, or so my assumptions lead me to believe.

Now we'll see what the next ones say.

No More Pencils, No More Books. Even as there are reports of the increased importance of libraries, especially with the rise of information overload and new technology to combat it, schools are finding it harder and harder to find and finance qualified librarians. During times of… [TechnoBiblio]

Gender Inequality in Domestic Labor. The current topic in my Gender and Social Institutions class is gender inequality in domestic labor. The basic story is that women do way more work in the home than their male partners, even when they work full time outside… [Eat Your Vegetables]

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interesting…. what if there is no woman in the home though, i wonder….. do all men then hire domestic servants….