May 2013
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The Daily Badass: Shock and Awe →
It’s an honor to have been part of this story, and we’re sincerely touched by the donations we’ve received. Here’s where the money goes:
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Well, it’s been quite a week here at Badass Brooklyn Animal Rescue. On May 10th I was working on putting together a recap post from our Block Party, and I fell in love with the photo of Eva and Captain Morgan. When I...
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“By far the best way to prevent a tug-of-war is to not pick up your end of the...”
– Don Lancaster
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“In the last fifteen years, the whole idea of bookselling has changed...”
– Spark Ideas! Join Me at “Reaching Readers” on May 28th | Publishing Perspectives
I’ve very honored (and still not sure how it happened) to be speaking on a panel at this conference on May 28th. As a book lover, it’s a dream to be able to share the skills in digital strategy...
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“Updike was not quite as fond of the way his mother wrote about him. “I found her...”
– My Mother, My Rival: The Revolutionary Honesty of Resenting Your Kids | Hazlitt
Michelle Dean on Updike and his writer mother.
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Mother's Day. Again? Ugh. It's like every year...
Some of us lost mothers, and some of us lost children. Some of us would like to be mothers and cannot. Some of us could have been mothers and chose not to via abortion or adoption. Some of us never knew our mothers. Some of us have a perfectly good mother we’re just not on good terms with. For some of us, celebrating Mother’s Day may mean spending time with a step-mother or...
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“Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy...”
– Fear of a Black President - Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic (via brooklynmutt)
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“In an increasingly connected world there’s a temptation to think that a nuanced...”
– Jan Chipchase, Hidden in Plain Sight (via wearethedigitalkids)
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“Boca Raton, Florida (June 17)
I actually saw it happen. A bird falling from...”
– Susan Mitchell, “Notes Toward a History of Scaffolding” (published in The Next American Essay)
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At least 3,774 Americans have been shot to death... →
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I’ll post this grim reminder from Slate regularly, going forward.
Because at some point this number will finally get to the gun nuts.
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Two Things You May Not Know about Marissa Mayer...
1. Yahoo! is now giving women 16 weeks paid maternity leave and fathers 8 weeks paid paternity leave
2. Before Mayer instituted the “no telecomuting” rule, she checked Yahoo! employee’s VPN logs and learned that people who claimed to be working from home were not actually logged in to the network
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“… the socialization of boys regarding masculinity is often at the expense of...”
– Don McPherson, former NFL quarterback, feminist and educator (via seraphmachine)
There’s not much wrong with the world that can’t be explained by this.
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April 2013
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