Archive for January, 2017

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  • Annals of academic TMI: Ex-grad student blabs to her professor that she works as a dominatrix, then is shocked, shocked that the prof isn’t all in
  • Washington Post: Let’s re-report this hate-crime hoax so we can blame it on Trump–and also blame the perp’s Trump-supporting mother
  • It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas: Media trash Melania’s White House Yuletide decorations for third year in a row
  • Not just the “Barron/baron”: Stanford law prof Pamela Karlan’s bad puns on public occasions go back for decades
  • Bye bye, Braque; adios, El Greco: Baltimore Museum of Art pledges not to buy or exhibit a single work in 2020 if the artist is a man
  • Ana Navarro is the Republicanest Republican in the world: Voted for Hillary, bought Kamala Harris T-shirts, calls Joe Biden “a decent man”–but Elise Stefanik is a jerk
  • Happy Thanksgiving from the New Yorker: The holiday is actually about “downplaying…slavery,” “marginalization of…Latinx,” “rise of eugenics,” and “heads on poles”
  • Old Paul Gauguin: artistic champion of Tahitian sexuality vs. puritanical Euro-Christian colonizers. New Paul Gauguin: “privileged Westerner” who sexually exploited Tahitian girls
  • Maybe if the new Charlie’s Angels movie were less “woke,” “gender fluid,” and fixated on “climate change,” it might have made some money like the old Charlie’s Angels movie
  • First, James “Luna” Younger, now Sprite’s “Junior, let me help you with your eye makeup” ad: Is the trans movement about trans people–or is it actually about moms?

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