Bookworm on Aug 25 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
I’m still happil figuring out all the bells and whistles on my new iPhone, so I’ll start off this Monday with a few quick picks:
No wonder Putin still dreams of the old Empire: it turns out that, if the Soviet Union still existed, it would have left all the other countries int he dust when [...]
Bookworm on Aug 01 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Two of my favorite bloggers — Paragraph Farmer and Joshua Pundit — got “spam blocked.” Their blogs are still accessible, but they can no longer post.
The way spam blocking works is that someone who doesn’t like the content on your Blogger-hosted blog clicks repeatedly on the little “spam” button up in the corner. This flags [...]
Bookworm on May 12 2008 | Filed under: Education
When I last traveled, I bought Larry Elders’ superb book Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card–and Lose. I promptly took the cover off, worried that I would be subject to harassment as a white woman reading a book entitled “Stupid Black Men” — never mind that the book was written by [...]
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