It is perverse to make people participate in an institution they deplore in order to access resources that should be guaranteed to all.
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A Big Thank You, and a Quick Update
If the Cultural Purity Police (CPP) had their way, they would brand British curry as theft, but every cuisine consists of an infinite number of borrowings and travels, sometimes stretching back millennia.
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Frida Is Dead, and I Am Undone
I am completely undone, and am facing, for the first time in many years, life without one of my two great loves.
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Sumer Is Icumen In, At Last
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Summertime and the Censorship is Easy
Today, academics are only dangerous to those on the left, like me, who dare question its fragile sense of self-worth and “danger.”
He hadn’t really stirred up a hornet’s nest; after all, people who poke actual bees occasionally get bee stings.
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On My Back: Age, Death, and Angry Birds
For those who live in cities where cabs and public transportation are plentiful and efficient and like to go on about the evils of ride-sharing: Stuff it. I get all the issues, but if I’d been on a hour and a half long el ride (perfectly normal in Chicago, where the public transportation system is carefully designed to keep white people safe from everyone else who has to take circuitious routes to get anywhere), I don’t think I would have survived the massive pain for that long without killing myself or screaming, a lot.
