50 pictures from 1965, my birth year. Has it been so long?
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My friend David, a history professor, wrote an essay on Thomas Malthus and his analysis of the enlightenment. I'm pretty sure my friends are smarter than your friends. Except where they overlap.
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What the fuck is wrong with people? No, seriously - WHAT?
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So apparently Mitt Romney is going to take on Evander Holyfield in the boxing ring. For charity. I think this is a FABULOUS idea, and the greatest fund raising scheme of all time. After all, who WOULDN'T pay good money to see politicians (of any stripe) get punched by retired professional boxers?
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As a woman working in technology who is constantly being interrupted, talked over, and mansplained, it makes me snigger to see someone called out in public for this bias. The fact that it was Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and the person who called him out was his own diversity expert who manages Google's unconscious bias program makes it all the sweeter.
H/T Brother Seth
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I loved this bit in that last link:
"They praise Glen Mazzara, the showrunner of The Shield, who discovered his female writers were staying silent in meetings, because whenever they did speak up, they were bulldozed by the men. Mazzara responded by banning interruptions during pitch meetings."
Yes.
What the fuck is wrong with people? Oh, so many, many things.
Sigh.
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