Backward Mutters

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  • Only Becket was funny…

    Editorialist Charles Lane of The Washing Post comments on Aliza Shvarts’ senior art project at Yale in which she planned to induce repeated miscarriages through a bit of performance art. Lane notes,“Among her ‘conceptual goals,’ she wrote in the Yale Daily News, was ‘to assert that often, normative understandings of…

  • Big Ol Dumb Government

    http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/271557392 The Stupidest Bike Lanes

  • Craw-Dad

    Teague Torture, can’t you tell?

  • Teague Titan

    Got a Rambler protege out for a spin down Teague. First time out on the road with cleats and pedals which she negotiated quite well. The pace was s-l-o-w, but it was just what the Dr ordered for Big Red.

  • "Sex Education" by Donna Freitas in Friday’s Wall Street Journal

    “When last semester I taught Wendy Shalit’s “A Return to Modesty,” in a class at Boston University called “Spirituality & Sexuality in American Youth Culture,” I assumed that my mostly left-leaning students would reject her arguments about the terrible effects that the hook-up culture has on young women and the…