I just watched Waltz with Bashir. And I am under shock. How much human inflicted suffering! From the actual massacres to the post-traumatic stress syndrome of the soldiers involved. Lives destroyed. When I was a little kid, I supposedly swore that nothing like the Holocaust would ever happen again. Yet, where was I when those massacres happened? When did they even happen? I didn’t even know about them until this movie. I started reading Peter Unger’s book “Living High and Letting Die.” It’s subtitle is “Our Illusion of Innocence.” He writes about children dying all over the world while we … Continue reading »
Sep 242009
Sep 202009
This week marks National Singles Week (aka Unmarried and Single Americans Week). I am busy preparing for an exam (read this if you don’t know why I am taking exams again), so I am going to have to defer to others for the data crunching and analysis. Fortunately, there is quite a bit out there even though lots of people don’t even know about USA Week (yet!). The Census Bureau has compiled some important stats on the unmarried population in the US. We are now 95.9 million strong! That is 43% of the adult population in the US. Also, please … Continue reading »
Single Women Rule is inaugurating the first annual blog crawl to celebrate this year’s National Singles’ Week. Although I am a tiny bit disappointed that my blog isn’t a part of it, we’ll be able to learn about some very cool blogs, which are much more active than mine and focus on anything single related (unlike my blog…). Featured guest bloggers include Dr. Bella DePaulo, notable psychologist and author of Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After; author of the novel The Divorce Party, Laura Dave; dating/relationship writer and author of The … Continue reading »
Sep 182009
Finally, the first major protest against the cuts to the educational system in California. The UC faculty is walking out on September 24: Under the cover of the summer months, UC administration has pushed through a program of tuition hikes, enrollment cuts, layoffs, furloughs, and increased class sizes that harms students and jeopardizes the livelihoods of the most vulnerable university employees. These decisions fundamentally compromise the mission of the University of California. They are complicit with the privatization of public education, and they have been made in a manner that flouts the principle of shared governance at the core of … Continue reading »
Sep 052009
San Francisco State University, one of the important universities in the state of California, was closed yesterday and will be closed again on Tuesday. They just want more time off, right? Not exactly. These are forced times off affecting the quality of education (classes are cancelled) and endanger the university’s ability to retain good faculty (who’d want to stay at a place that forces unpaid vacation down your throat?!?). I’ve decided that I will email my state reps on every furlough day that I don’t have classes. I’d like to encourage all fellow students to do the same! Maybe if … Continue reading »
Sep 022009
That’s what the sign read posted to a bulletin board at SF State. Intrigued, I stepped closer. After all, maybe someone was going to bust some internalized singlism that was causing people some emotional heartaches… Fat chance. The ad was from an MFA (marriage and family agreement?) who was going to help people find their One and Only. So, if you’re unhappily single, the only solution is to become unsingle? And that will automatically make you happy? How about deconstructing the social assumptions that underlie these assumptions because they are what makes many singles unhappy: You are nothing without a … Continue reading »
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