Sometimes I wish I had a second computer just to grade my students’ papers with, so I could accidentally drop that computer into the toilet.
Do you know who Ines Sainz is? If you’re an NFL fan, you do, even if you don’t recognize her name. She’s the TV Azteca reporter who was sexually harassed by some members of the New York Jets. Jelisa Castrodale points out some pretty obvious things about the case, obvious to anyone who doesn’t have the sexual politics of a Viking attack, that is.
Ta-Nehisi Coates on compassion: “For me to seriously consider the words of the slave-holder, which is to say the mind of the slave-holder, for me to see them as human beings, as full and as complicated as anyone else I know, a strange transcendence is requested. I am losing my earned, righteous skin. I know that beef is our birthright, that all our grievance is just. But for want of seeing more, I am compelled to let it go.”
This is one of the most disturbing photos I’ve ever seen, not because of what it looks like, but because of what it is.
This picture, though, is just disturbing.
I’ve read a number of reviews of the Creation Museum just outside Cincinnati, but I’ve never seen photos. Until now.
