Politics

Dear Vincent, I left off wanting to be the girl under the tree, with wild hair and apricots falling around my feet, the one who scrawls words dangerously, with no consideration of time or consequence.   I also shared my fear of being forever, instead, the draftsgirl.  Carefully engineered, a single life drafted, one side, straight [...]

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I recently had cause to remember The Year that Blew My Mind. It wasn’t mind-blowing in a good way – the oyster of the world didn’t open up and reveal any grand pearls of wisdom – instead, my gray matter was challenged to find reason for the unreasonable, and causes for the inexcusable. The resulting [...]

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Feminism, Fat, and Strange Politics

by Jane Devin on 04/20/2008

“Feminism: the radical notion that women are people.” – Anonymous “Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.” – Pat Robertson Feminism. The word can rouse the twin specters of angst and animus out of even their most latent [...]

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Prig n. 1. A person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner. I don’t believe that a Caucasian person could have given a speech like the one Barack Obama did on March 18th. In fact, it is almost certain that a white person could not have even [...]

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Almost Too Much to Do

by Jane Devin on 02/16/2008

I once worked for a company where the unpublished motto was “let’s just move forward.” In theory, the goal may have seemed admirable, but practically speaking it was a disaster. Moving forward without addressing past issues only leads to the snowball effect. Sooner or later, the problems and failures of yesterday that weren’t fixed will [...]

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Camille Paglia: Tabloid-Style Politics

by Jane Devin on 01/18/2008

In her most recent political essay, Camille Paglia exposes readers to a skeletal mindset covered in layers of archaic academia — her own. In so many ways, Paglia reminds me of Ann Coulter. They are both well-fed media darlings not, it seems, for the depth or truth of anything they might say, but for their [...]

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