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Posts from October 2005

An Unkinder, Ungentler Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart, that swelling corporate behemoth, has lately been having some trouble moving into markets in New York and Los Angeles because of the fact that it pays its workers shit and gives them shit benefits, thereby effectively foisting their needs on the surrounding civil infrastructure.

Our government should be the one taking care of those needs, [...]


The Chemicals in My Brain

Art has power. Words have power. Music has power. That’s because we’re essentially a mass of chemicals and ganglia wired to a big chunk of meat. Besides giving us the illusion of free will, this insanely complex glut of neurons makes us vulnerable to abstractions that have absolutely no physical or practical effect on our [...]


Concentration

I haven’t been able to concentrate on anything for a couple of months now. Every thought I have breaks into a hundred thoughtlets that shatter into a million thoughtules that crumble into dust and flutter to the bottom of my mind and lie there in great undifferentiated piles of silt. The inside of my head [...]


Cads

Joanna had just penned an extended (and inspired) diatribe on the tendency of certain men to appraise members of the opposite sex as if they were things:

What I object to is the blatancy with which I’m being appraised – as if it were an intrinstic part of being female to be judged by [...]