5 posts tagged “new yorker”

I don't care about the cover of the latest New Yorker.  

First, check this one out...it's about racial tensions and a murder on Long Island. 

Next, check out this one...unfortunately the full text isn't available online but it's worth reading if you can get your hands on a copy.  I am pretty upset about this one in particular.  It makes me not want to pay my taxes even more.  Our money is going towards all the wrong shit.  This is completely inhumane, bizarre capitalist, racist, bullshit.  I think I was sensitive to this kind of injustice before becoming a mother, but being a parent puts it into even greater perspective and makes me even more upset.

I've been making my way through this very long New Yorker piece on Rudy Giuliani.  I think it's important to know what the enemy is up to.  I came across this quote last night and just couldn't get over it,

"Focussing on the differences between him and the Democrats, he assailed Hillary Clinton, criticizing her as a redistributionist and an enemy of the free market. “Now, these are scary thoughts, they really are—that she, or some Democrat, can take your money and they’re going to use it for the common good,” he said..."

Huh?  This is so confusing to me.  The Common Good is a BAD thing?  Since when?  What?  And who enjoys and believes this kind of garbage rhetoric?

I suppose that he and those who think like him would prefer the Republicans taking your money and using it for a BULLSHIT WAR!  Now, that's okay with them, but the common good?  No $%@*& way! 

It's mindblowing.

This cartoon from the latest issue of the New Yorker illustrates my work life:

New Yorker

Well, there's a lot going on and really nothing going on this week.

• As I sit here at the computer, a guy is out back installing a safety fence around the pool.  This is to keep the monkeymono from jumping/falling in and drowning.  It will be nice to have this taken care of.
• The issue of the ridiculous email I received last week, followed by the ridiculous fake apology, has resurfaced again.  This time the subject has been broached in correspondence between the culprit and a colleague/friend of mine.  The culprit has an amazing ability to dig himself deeper and deeper with each successive email.  It's an impressive skill.  So there is more drama, and I could get involved and try to actually do something about it.  But suffice to say that the culprit is so moronic, egomaniacal, and delusional that it's not worth my time or attention.  I am ignoring it and him.
  
• A good friend is in town at the moment and I got to go to dinner with her and others last night.  It was great to see her.  I'm hoping that I might get to see her again today or tomorrow, but I'm not holding my breath.
  
• Another good friend comes to town this weekend and we are planning to have breakfast with her and her hubby on Sunday.  Looking forward to that.
• I've got to get ready to start teaching summer school in two weeks.  And my brain is already spinning about how I am going to teach my graduate class this fall. 
  
• My coauthor and I are working hard on two papers at the moment.  Since she's moving out of state in a month, the clock is really ticking on these papers.  We're trying to get a lot done on a daily basis.  For paper number 1 we are in writing mode, trying to make it readable so that we can send it out for review very soon.  For paper number 2 we are in data mode, just trying to compile the dataset so that we can do some analysis so that I can present it at a conference in NYC this August.  I'm learning a lot.  It's kind of maddening, and overwhelming, but good.
• I'm in the middle of reading a New Yorker article about The Great Wall of China.  That might sound boring to you but I am really enjoying it.  It's fascinating.  If I just had time to finish reading the damn thing.
  
• Monkeymono turns 15 months this Sunday.  Wow. 
  

I guess that's it for now.  Maybe something more will hit me later in the day. I know you're excited so stay tuned.