Apparently, Its Mother Fucking Booz Time Ladies.

NY Mag has a really great article on young woman and alcohol. Apparently we (the ladies) are have taken to imbibing–with coworks, friends, alone–in more copious amounts.
A couple of disjointed things that struck me about the article:
-Third Wave Feminism is painted as being the spoiled, bratty daughter of the last two waves, doing little more [...]

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More on the Jewish Football Club thing

The other day, Mireille introduced the weird philo-semitism of Ajax Football Club.  Ajax fans, however, are not alone in appropriating Jewishness.  A number of teams worldwide identify with Judaism.  Among them are M.T.K. Hungaria and England’s Tottenham Hotspur.
There are multiple reasons a club gets tagged as “Jewish.”  MTK was founded in 1888 by Jewish businessmen.  Through [...]

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ethnic mascots, part three billion and seven: the Amsterdam Jews

I would imagine by now most people are aware of my aversion to using ethnic groups as sports mascots and how deeply bewildered I am by the fact that my home town’s football team happens to be the Redskins. I’m not even going to entertain the idea that the name isn’t racist– the very fact [...]

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Rampaging Japanese seniors

There have been a number of stories lately about the criminal proclivities of Japan’s senior citizens.  On the northern island of Hokkaido, arrests of seniors actually outnumbered arrests of teenagers in 2006.  Since then, the number of elder arrests has risen to three for every two bookings of teens.  Nationally, crimes by seniors have risen [...]

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pomo

Think Culture has a brief yet thoughtful explanation of our contemporary post-racial climate.
Postmodernity has become an horror show of lazy irony. I indulge in the aethetic because of my place and time; education economics but find the stagnant nihilism and laissez faire just-for-lols approach to things that are worth earnestness overwhelmingly problematic. That isn’t to [...]

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Fail’s epic win

Back in my day, “fail” was a verb.  We also had to walk to school in the snow, uphill both ways.  Oh, and the snow leopards…
But these are better times.  “Fail” is now a noun, and a ubiquitous one at that.  Slate magazine’s Christopher Beam traces its entry into the online zeitgeist back to a [...]

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Link List

Here’s a few things to keep you entertained while I try to get through The Division of Labor in Society and conjugate regular -ir verbs.

Everyday Sociology Blog has a good post about the difference between journalism and sociology. I had a conversation with Steven about how grad school was treating him where admitted that he [...]

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instead of studying for my midterms

I figured my lovely loyal readers should know what I’m up to when not knockin’ on Palin–I, um, have been looking up rugby videos on the youtube while trying to study for my Sociology of Race and Ethnicity midterm.

That’s right, my life has been split down the middle, sociology on the [...]

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Linguist needed

The following exchange occurred on a message board at www.mgoblog.com, an outstanding Michigan sports blog:
Posted on: September 18th, 2008 at 11:46 PM #17
Jim Harbaugh Scramble Joined: 2008-06-30
David Terrell’s nickname was “Bomb-ass Dick.”
Posted on: September 19th, 2008 at 12:19 AM #18
Tim Waymen Joined: 2008-06-30
I heard that story!!…
Posted on: September 19th, 2008 at 12:24 AM #19
PattyMax64 Joined: [...]

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Don Haskins dead at 78

Don Haskins was the head basketball coach at Texas Western (now UTEP) in the 1960s.  Haskins made history in the 1965-1966 season when he started five black players in the national championship game against the University of Kentucky.  Although college basketball had already been integrated, Haskins’ Miners were the first all-black starting five to play [...]

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