Entries Tagged as 'Politics'
Free Donuts—Take All You Want! We’re throwing away the scales, and food is free! We trust you to eat responsibly. Read more... (731 words, estimated 2:55 mins reading time)
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Tags: Books · Economics and Finance · Politics
Today’s idea is courtesy of Carina Chocano. Read more... (233 words, estimated 56 secs reading time)
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Tags: Politics · Today's Idea
You Play the Girl by Carina Chocano: You Play the Girl because that’s your only option. I read the title backwards. I read it as a young girl bossing another in a game of house. I had to finish the book before I realized “playing the girl” is all about limited options for how one might maneuver through the minefield of Madonna-whore contradictions that shade our culture. Read more... (373 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)
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My sister thinks the New York Times favors Black people when choosing photos for the front page of their Arts section. In Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
, Isabel Wilkerson provides an answer for that seeming favoritism. She explains that Black people are over represented today in entertainment because under the Jim Crow laws, entertaining was one of the few jobs they were allowed. Black people had generations of practice: When they were actual slaves, they were required by their masters to sing and dance and appear to be happy. Read more... (353 words, 1 image, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)
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Tags: Books · Non Fiction · Politics
Rage
by Bob Woodward, he of Watergate fame, is yet another book about the Trump presidency. You’ve read all about it already, except this time the stories are based on actual recorded interviews–17!–with The Donald himself.
So I’ll get right down to the part that interested me the most. Read more... (323 words, 4 images, estimated 1:18 mins reading time)
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Tags: Books · Politics
Claire's Original Art Greeting Cards
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, Isabel Wilkerson provides an answer for that seeming favoritism. She explains that Black people are over represented today in entertainment because under the Jim Crow laws, entertaining was one of the few jobs they were allowed. Black people had generations of practice: When they were actual slaves, they were required by their masters to sing and dance and appear to be happy. 
by Bob Woodward, he of Watergate fame, is yet another book about the Trump presidency. You’ve read all about it already, except this time the stories are based on actual recorded interviews–17!–with The Donald himself.
