August 2012
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murdermetonymy replied to your post: Arabic verbs are hard. This has been a post.
Hans wehr is where its at
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thenoobyorker replied to your post: thenoobyorker replied to your post: 18 books for…
If I get this one research position I will program in R but I’d rather not…
I like Python and Ruby, but then again, who on the internet doesn’t?
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thenoobyorker replied to your post: 18 books for one class and 20+ articles. One of…
naw, not in R
I have a friend doing his PhD in Stats and he just mumbles about how R is evil.
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mohandasgandhi replied to your post: mohandasgandhi replied to your post: Arabic verbs…
I have 5 and neither can I.
The most annoying part is when my professor says something like “Oh, you’ll get it eventually.”
I WANT TO GET IT NOW BECAUSE I HAVE NO PATIENCE
18 books for one class and 20+ articles.
One of them is Orientalism, so it’s all worth it.
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mohandasgandhi replied to your post: Arabic verbs are hard. This has been a post.
Kill me.
I have 2 books just on Arabic verbs and I still can’t tell when to use a fatha or a kasra.
Arabic verbs are hard.
This has been a post.
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What kind of a turd protested FOR the Vietnam war?
Mitt Romney
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Sean Hannity yelling at someone to get a job and stop complaining is the perfect distillation of American politics: overprivileged white people thinking that anyone who is unemployed is lazy and useless.
Why can’t we all get jobs where we can go on TV and yell at people for their misfortunes and then ask for tax cuts from the government?
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It would have been a lot cooler if Mitt Romney had not accepted the nomination and just said “Screw you guys, I’m going home.”
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Foreign Relations of the United States series on my Kindle? Yes, please.
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“In the United States, I have been alarmed by the number of Jews who, dismayed by...”
– Judith Butler responding to criticisms of her being awarded the Theodor Adorno Prize in Germany
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There’s a kind of cosmic irony in the fact that one of the most secretive presidents in modern history is having an AMA that nobody can read.
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President Obama's Answers for his AMA →
Since the reddit site is acting goofy, use this. I believe the server architecture will keep this up even if the thread page is down.
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“Who is Dr. Hiss? The chief pathologist of Israel for a decade and a half, Hiss...”
– “There Are No Civilians In Wartime.” Rachel Corrie’s Family Confronts The Israeli Military In Court via Jadaliyya
So horrifying.
(via sharquaouia)
If you want an idea of how dubious the Israeli version of events is, even the American ambassador doesn’t think they actually investigated it.
I think the tone shifts in The Sunset Tree are my favorite part of that album.
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People like Andrew Sullivan and David Frum are considered reasonable conservatives.
This is our world. This is our political spectrum.
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“An unscripted moment happened late this afternoon that caused the assembled...”
– Racism at the GOP convention
I need to pick a book to review for class. The only conditions are it has to be published after 2007, a historical work, and in my area of research (Palestine, gender and Orientalism, and Islamophobia.)
Any suggestions?
Just ordered The Queer Art of Failure, a 600 page book by Braudel, and a book on Ottoman history.
The life of a grad student.
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“MacMaster has no qualms using the Gay Girl hoax as a launching point for a...”
– Bad Fiction from Damascus “Gay Girl” via Al Akhbar
Painfully obvious that Amina was not who she claimed given that the blog was composed of half-truths and sloppy clichés. As MacMaster peddles his Gay Girl book, he’s sadly reinserting his voice into a sphere where the actual voices of gays,...
40 dollars for a book I will never read again. Goddamn you Braudel.
The way the Ron Paul people are causing hell at the GOP convention is making me so happy.
This is like an early Christmas.
“I was shocked to see parts of the very Left which regularly slams patriarchy,...”
– When the Left apologises for Assange (via commiebabe)
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“It is not just the comic philistinism of Friedman’s ideas that I find so...”
– Edward Said on Thomas Friedman
This is just beautiful. It’s also a testament to how much of an outrage it is that Thomas Friedman is still treated as a serious commentator on the Middle East.
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“Now, this will accomplish much. It will show our compassion, and it will do...”
– Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh’s idea of humor is killing poor black people. He didn’t come out and say it, but that’s the beauty of the modern GOP’s racism: everyone knows what they’re saying, but since its not often explicit, the media won’t call them out on it.
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eschatonnes replied to your post: Controversial Opinion.
It was really good when I read it in middle school and I think that’s what it’s good for.
The problem with it is that it basically takes people, forces them into convenient groups that are ahistorical, and then tries to use modern political views to explain past historical actions.
It’s cool when you’re young (and I read it...
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yorubadiaspore replied to your post: yorubadiaspore replied to your post: Controversial…
Thanks!
Actually, try his The Story of American Freedom. It’s less of a textbook than Give me Liberty!.
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yorubadiaspore replied to your post: Controversial Opinion.
Any good alternatives?
I’ve never read it, but I’ve been told Eric Foner’s Give Me Liberty! is pretty good.
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thenoobyorker replied to your post: Controversial Opinion.
not controversial
It’s controversial among a sect of so-called leftists who enjoy their histories distilled down to an us vs them which removes all complexity and human agency.
Controversial Opinion.
A People’s History of America is not a very good book.
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guydeboring replied to your post: guydeboring replied to your post: It’s really…
earlier someone was talking about talking to strangers on the internet when they were 5 and i was like “the internet was barely a thing when i was 5” then i died of old age
I can still remember the first computer at my house and how it had the internet.
I used a search engine that is no longer even around.
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guydeboring replied to your post: It’s really weird to me that 10 years ago is just…
i feel so old
co-signed.
It’s really weird to me that 10 years ago is just the early 2000s. I keep thinking it should be the mid 90s.
Nostalgia, ftw.
Oh, and if you needed more proof that the “terrorism experts” are all jackasses, see how they are all virtually united in their mourning over the fact that Joshua Treviño, a racist and Islamophobe, was fired from the Guardian.
“Broom People” by the Mountain Goats is one of my favorite songs, mainly because the first time I heard it was at a show by them and John Darnielle told the story of why he wrote it.
Is it odd to be looking up the other students in my class on facebook?
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ghost-of-algren replied to your post: Glenn Greenwald has really shown his weakness in…
i’m so not surprised by this
I agree with him on a lot of things (terrorism industry, for example) but he always reads things with the aim to validate his preconceived views. So, he made a post saying Julian Assange’s argument about Sweden guaranteeing he won’t be extradited is possible and...
