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Jon Stewart Vidwrap: Brown, Garner, and Race

1) Go on a Daily Show binge. 2) Write about it on your blog, because sometimes, Jon Stewart is damn well on point. 3) Maybe add some other links as well? 4) I dunno; I actually have no words here. Have some from some other people. (Post title is misleading;

November 28 Bucket o' Links: "(Un)reality" Edition

Welp, some weeks I just sit on the linkwrap for an extra five days. Plan is still to throw another one up this Friday, by which I mean, tomorrow... urp. 0 Blah blah blah blah Reading Feed blah. 1 Sometimes, when we're interacting with people on the internet,

(Un)fairness

One of the problems with being an avowed altruist is that it's hard to talk about it with other people without coming across like you're trying to claim you're better than them. One of the problems with being an aspiring effective altruist is that

The only thing I'm going to say about Ferguson

Ore Babarinsa, one of my classmates, had the following to say on recent events in Ferguson, MO via Facebook. With permission, I've copied his words without modification below. So, I've purposefully stayed off facebook for the last 12+ hours because I wanted to spend some time

November 21 Bucket o' Links: "Languages, Language, and Words, Words, Words" Edition

I'm going to continue calling these my Friday linkwraps, in the hopes that I'll (1) actually publish one on Friday someday, or, failing that, (2) not slip to a write-on-Saturday, publish-on-Sunday schedule if I call them my Saturday linkwraps instead. 0 I'm still running

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