July 2007
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Anyhow, the iPhone is out, it’s pretty, and lots of people are buying them. For...
– Merlin on MacBreak Weekly: iPhone Release Show
June 2007
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Sexism, very much like racism, has very sublime expressions that are not always...
– The Brutal Truth: Hip Hop and Black Love
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Detroit is known for one of the most stunning collections of pre-depression...
– Forgotten Detroit
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Writing about female genital cutting and asking that we stay on the topic of...
– Comparing Circumcisions
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YOU KNOW YOU ARE SAFELY BOURGEOIS WHEN:
You find yourself re-scheduling your...
– Pass Go, Collect $200: the Paradox of the Radical or, Where the Grills Are
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Why doesn’t technically accomplished, remarkably moody, gorgeously...
– John Darnielle, Naming the Unnameable
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What’s the point of a place like Detroit, Michigan?
Coming home means culture...
– Despite Everything
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The last place I imagined working for social change was in the dirt, pulling...
– Love Letter to Detroit
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Why is it misogynist to want to F*** a woman?
– Title of comment on Caucasian Please! America’s Cultural Double Standard For Misogyny & Racism
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…constructing arguments around ‘class’ is extremely difficult...
– Danah Boyd, Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace
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The questions for me are: Where is the public debate about whether to grow at...
– Greg Graffin, climate scientist at the University of Arizona
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The persistence of conferences raises another question. What are likely...
– The Strange Persistence of Conferences
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We cannot build a state that has another state inside it, we cannot build an...
– Nuri Kamal al-Maliki in Diwaniya during a June visit.
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And, let me assure you, summer is not as much fun when other women are swimming...
– Share-ing is caring - Snag yourself a summer significant other—with a weekend home.
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You were nineteen, I was in between times.
– The Mountain Goats’ “Pure Sound”
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I’d like to marry all of my close friends, and live in a big house together by...
– Of Montreal’s “Don’t Ask Me to Explain”, from Cherry Peel
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A few months ago I was sitting in a coffee shop in my neighborhood, a coffee...
– Gentrification, Hipsters and “Ghetto Chic.”