April 2010
2 posts
symbol/ism
today in ConLaw, Kenji pointed out that IP law tells us how important symbols are in our culture. marriage ≠ civil unions.
what else can trademark law inform vis-a-vis civil rights jurisprudence and litigation strategy?
a true germination
paper idea?
compare copyleft and copyright to gender/sexuality movement in civil rights (civil disobediance); why this comparison is interesting: the fundamental focus on changing language - the rhetoric, but even more than that, the fact that their object was language…
November 2009
1 post
“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one...”
– Clare Boothe Luce (Submitted by loveliftedme) (via quote-book)
October 2009
6 posts
Untitled
via petswhowanttokillthemselves.com “All dressed-up for a hot Saturday night, Tanya was disappointed to learn they were only going to the dog park, again.” Posted via web from imperfectsonnet’s posterous | Comment »
Flying with Dragons: September 12 of 12
via ajflying.blogspot.com Great pics from Allison (Idea by Chad Darnell — linked from her blog post). Tomorrow is the 12th — so glad I found this today! Posted via web from imperfectsonnet’s posterous | Comment »
http://myparentsjoinedfacebook.com/ →
July 2009
19 posts
Recipes for 101 Simple Salads for the Season
via nytimes.com
Posted via web from imperfectsonnet’s posterous | Comment »
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I...”
– Walt Whitman
Lemon-scented Quinoa Salad Recipe - 101 Cookbooks
via 101cookbooks.com just made this. couldn’t find tahini at the grocery store for some reason, so i substituted tahini hummus instead. worked well. added a bit of extra lemon juice cuz that’s just the kinda gal i am. WOW! good stuff. highly recommended Posted via web from imperfectsonnet’s posterous | Comment »
“[O]n the one hand, our sense that an objective report is
disinterested, honest,...”
– Wendy Lesser
Pictures at an Execution: An Inquiry into the Subject of Murder
“It was the GOP’s choice to turn this hearing from a conversation about...”
– Dalia Lithwick @ Slate
strawberry yogurt
i read online once that putting strawberry yogurt on your face is really good for your skin. now i’m doing a yogurt mask daily. it occurs to me that i may be the butt of a very clever and rather amusing joke. i wonder how easy it would be to convince others to diligently rub food all over their faces? or maybe most people aren’t as gullible as me…
[UPDATE: ok — not a...
“A wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than...”
– White Man’s Last Stand
Maureen Dowd
openly straight?
The other night, while watching an episode of Law and Order SVU, I was (as I often am) compelled to do a Wikipedia search on some of the actors. I noted that B.D. Wong (the always clever, sometimes snide psychiatrist) was listed as “openly gay” on his Wiki page, yet no mention was made of the other actors’ sexual orientations. I decided it was time to remedy this. With a simple...
“As critical legal scholars argue, law often serves merely as legitimization or...”
– Marcy E. Peek
Professor, Whittier Law School
Sotomayor just sounds so much smarter than them. Especially Sessions. What is this “objective,” “impartiality” they’re all so concerned about? The absence of a view from nowhere comes into focus when our subject is nonwhite, not male. She’s making that explicit, and they won’t let her. They want her to say — “you’re right. I’ll be...
Obama Drastically Scales Back Goals For America...
via theonion.com Posted via web from imperfectsonnet’s posterous | Comment »
New Live Poll Allows Pundits To Pander To Viewers...
via theonion.com you laugh, but we’re nearly there. Posted via web from imperfectsonnet’s posterous | Comment »
:: te recuerdo amanda ::
victor jara
Clean, sexy water →
Maybe not #moonfruit clever, but good advice nonetheless
The New Price Point? 'Free' : NPR
via npr.org Terry Gross interviews Chris Anderson (editor of Wired Mag) to find out how web services that give things away for free can stay afloat (and then some) Posted via web from imperfectsonnet’s posterous | Comment »
funny
how much we fret over “objectivity” when our nominee isn’t a white male.
“…The connection to communications technology — the connection to...”
– from Love, Virtually
in NYTimes, The Medium Blog
July 9, 09