Here, coffin that slowly passes, I give you my sprig of lilac. (Nor for you, for one alone, Blossoms and branches green to coffins all I bring, For fresh as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane and sacred death. All over bouquets of roses, O death, I cover you […]
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Sliding into the reclining chair, I notice Animal Planet on the ceiling-mounted television. Some man wielding a tranquilizer gun has taken down an Alaskan bull moose. I’m almost drawn in, but the hygienist, garbed in germless gloves and goggles politely requests I open wide so she can descend down my masticating mineshaft to scrape, sandblast,
We are living in a feminist dystopia. Nobody has more independent woman street cred than yours truly, the Academic Redneck. I traveled the world by myself in my twenties. I waited to marry until I was in my mid-thirties. Now in my fifties, I am child-free by choice. I never had an abortion, but I
Feminist Dystopia: A Perspective from the Working Class Read More »
Conservatives celebrate and liberals wail about Justice Anthony Kennedy’s upcoming Supreme Court retirement. Partisan publications feature over-the-top predictions about the court’s future. Hysterical leftists believe reproductive rights and Rowe v. Wade are under assault. They assert that a new Supreme Court will reduce all childbearing-age women to breeders and scullery maids. Right-wingers say that a
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In 2005, a landmark 5-4 Supreme Court ruling damaged individual property rights. Specifically, the Kelo v. City of New London case established an unfair eminent domain precedent. Little Pink House, an independent film released this year, speaks to this issue. It dramatizes the heartbreak of New London, Connecticut residents who lost their homes in this unfortunate court
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