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Offer Life

By jelewis8 ⋅ March 21, 2005 ⋅ 4 comments

Happy Spring. The time of year when new things grow, flowers bloom and trees begin to blossom with buds, animals and people make more babies, the sun shines more brightly and longer, the weather gets balmy, and the rains come. Oh yes, and for one woman and her husband, there’s a huge national drama to [...]

Ice, Ice, Discrimination Baby

By jelewis8 ⋅ March 13, 2005 ⋅ 4 comments

Interested in the gender gap? Want to help contribute to its widening? Then head on over to Seattle, where University of Washington glaciaologist, Erin Pettit, leads an exclusionary expedition, made up solely of UW female high school students, to learn about glaciers and their geologic impact. Greg Piper notes that the rules of the program [...]

A Difference of Two Terms

By jelewis8 ⋅ March 9, 2005 ⋅ One comment

Greg Piper says that Bush and Clinton are more alike than either guys’ supporters want to admit. Maybe so. Note, however, there remains significant differences between the two that will forever separate them in the annals. Perhaps without the small, seemingly backward steps of Clinton, Bush might not have been able to begin the first [...]

The Sound of Hipster Whining

By jelewis8 ⋅ March 8, 2005 ⋅ 3 comments

Featured in James Taranto’s Best of the Web, Greg Piper sent this link about an Oregon Coast Lodge that won’t allow people who smoke, have pets, own Hummers, or voted for Bush to stay with them. Ironically enough, their diversity and tolerance policies seems to be quite limited to people who supposedly support and practice [...]

Some Comments and Best Adapted Screenplay

By jelewis8 ⋅ February 27, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

So I wasn’t so impressed with Chris Rock saying he wouldn’t bash Bush, and then went and bashed him for five minutes, comparing the war and deficit to running a Gap store. Yep, it’s totally comparable. As Greg Piper says, only “vehement Bush-haters and intellectually lazy non-political types” would find that funny. Adam Sandler is [...]

Slacker Makes Good

By jelewis8 ⋅ February 17, 2005 ⋅ One comment

Greg Piper is guest-blogging again at TMV. A salaried job, now semi-regular guest-blogging for an Important Pundit. He’s making me insane with envy.

A Silent Epiphany

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 31, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Greg Piper can now enjoy the comfort and financial stability of a new job, and as a full-time reporter, no less! He’ll be contributing to a DC newsletter, and promises that his blog may become less interesting and/or more brief. Not what I would have said on the eve after plugging my blog on frickin’ [...]

“I was in a cheerleading squad…”

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 27, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Greg Piper is guest blogging for the next three days at Joe Gandelman’s The Moderate Voice, the (un)lucky stiff. He’ll be posting a few items at The Smoking Room, but most of his stuff will be over at TMV. Go give him some lovin’. And Greg, don’t you know that’s going to cut down on [...]

Bias For Me and For Thee

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 24, 2005 ⋅ One comment

Noted in today’s link roundup from Greg Piper is an interesting item regarding implicit bias and a revolutionary psychological test that renders the test taker’s deepest, innermost thoughts as indications of their biases toward races, genders, religions, sexual orientations, and a lot of other applicable subjects. I haven’t had the chance to take the online [...]

Knowing Thyself

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 20, 2005 ⋅ 3 comments

Inspired by a post by Ambra Nykol, Greg Piper writes of the uncertainty he’s faced, both in the past and currently, of how to be focused in his writing, and perhaps more importantly, how to define the genre in which he sees himself and his work. The questions he (essentially) poses to himself are ones [...]

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