Ah metaphor! Ah analogy! One size fits all. Audre Lorde’s maxim–you can’t dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools–for me means to be suspicious of the Grand Unifying Theory of Feminism, because it sounds a lot like the Same Old Unifying ...
abundant ice cubes, andoh-my-god-I-thought-you-dieddog excitement can remind you that paradise can be found right at home, too. When you think about it, everyone has a little bit of paradise they’re surrounded with…we just have to choose...
I doggedly pursued library work, enduring interview after interview, until at long last I found a library that was willing to accept me even though my resume had gaps, and even though I didn’t walk in the door knowing how to do the work. Now, just a year later, I am feeling more ...
I really, really want to believe that this series has finally found its stride, but there’s that little, nagging part of my brain that says that it’s a fluke, and next month IRREDEEMABLE will go right back to its normal, underwhelming self. I guess I’ll just have to pick up the ...
I found it rather telling that the first instinct of many of evangelicalism’s Cultural Commentators–to a column extolling the unique beauty of Christian women–was to howl in outrage and rush to the defense of the unbelievers. Explains a lot about how we’ve gotten ...
The title of the book is a reference to the potato harvest in the village in the Ural in early fall in which Kurt lived, but it is also a metaphor for the fading light that the communist ideal shines on the Umnitzer family and that gets weaker with every generation. ...
Typically, those vulnerabilities they seek were found and fixed months or years ago— and heavily publicised. At which point, everyone with a grain of common sense upgraded. If you run a Linux (or other Unix) system and choose to have it offer network services, especially using overly ...