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With sincerest apologies to Mr. Whitman

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip now ends, The college stands another year, though still no more it spends, The Game is near, the Band I hear, the freshmen all exulting, While follow eyes the crimson flag, the Yalies we insulting; But O Tom! Bas! Rav! O the year

{he,they} / {him,them} / {his,their}

Jeff Kaufman has an announcement on their blog, that I'd like to get behind here: As part of the process of switching to ungendered pronouns, at some point people need to start being okay with using 'they' with named referents. I'm really optimistic about

Democracy! (Part 2: The Democratizing)

(1) Vote! Today! Before 8pm! Yesterday, I linked a polling-place guide from the IOP, which was two years out of date. The HPR has a good guide to candidates and their issues, but their polling-place list for Harvard students is also incorrect.[1] As far as I can tell, the

Democracy!

(1) Reminder: What may be your best chance this year to shape the future of your city/state/nation is tomorrow. So go out there and do the thing! If you're at Harvard and forgot where the heck you were supposed to go to do the thing, tomorrow&

October 31 Bucket o' Links: "Links, Explosions, and People Talking" Edition

Welp, Friday post goes out on Sunday NO shut up it's still saturday is that how this daylight savings thing works HRMPH. (It's not.) Anyway, I'm in the middle of writing some stuff about a topic that's almost certainly going to end

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