Inside the Little Plastic Castle

jadelennox makes an elegant (and of course, funny) analogy re: religious choice and Catholic funding for contraception.

Ortho Novum 777. It's the other trayf meat.

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Then s.e.smith bats the ball over the fence again in this essay about make-work "job training" which teaches poor people nothing, while draining off energy needed to find a job.

begin quote  It adds you to a list of successful statistics because the bottom line isn’t about whether your situation was improved, but whether you got a job, any job at all, so the government could strike you off the rolls. quote ends

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The initial orange square icon signals a "feed" account. Dreamwidth talks to the servers where the bloggers are hosted. (This conversation is called "syndication," with dialects of RSS or Atom. Just in case you needed some more random facts in your head.)

When I read my droll* Dreamwidth grabs the info from the other blogs and shows 'em in my subscription list. This means I have one place to look for interesting stuff. If I'm moved to comment, there's just one click from DW to the blog's own page.

* (short for Dream-roll, and quicker than Reading Page)
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Racilicious is a group blog devoted to the intersections of race and pop culture. Fashion is usually something I glance at then ignore, but this piece, lavishly illustrated, taught me to think about "who has the right to play with signifiers" in a productive way:

What is Walter Van Beirendonck Trying to Say? by Joseph Lamour

I see Racialious' posts by subscribing to this DW feed:
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The little club? easy-peasy: ♣ = ♣



p.s. This post took me two-and-one-half hours to prepare. It seems awful slow to me; I wonder how I could speed things up.