Does anyone here have a strong opinion, one way or the other, on Ruby Payne's books on poverty?
Wesley: We were fighting on opposite sides, but it was the same war. Fred: but you hated her…didn't you? Wesley: It's not always about holding hands.
'Shells'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Cashmere - Oct 28, 2009 1:06:15 pm PDT #28397 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
Burrell - Oct 28, 2009 1:09:44 pm PDT #28398 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
For me, the allure of fairy tales wasn't being a princess. It was the heady combo of danger, abandonment, sexuality, and magic.
DebetEsse - Oct 28, 2009 1:13:12 pm PDT #28399 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Cash, not a strong opinion, but I think they're useful as entry-level books for people who need to examine their social assumptions. There's a lot of generalizations, but for people so rooted in Middle Class thinking that they have no conception of life without Little League (or soccer league, or ballet class, etc), they're effective.
Cashmere - Oct 28, 2009 1:20:46 pm PDT #28400 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
Thanks, Abi. I think they might be a good start for me for my mentoring gig. I don't need a lot of scholarly psychology for this kind of work, but some hands-on, practical theory. I know she's not exactly beloved by all but I think she is working on backing up her works with more research.
Steph L. - Oct 28, 2009 1:30:03 pm PDT #28401 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I got some of Ben Stein's Money
No shit? That makes 2 Buffistas who have won (some of) Ben Stein's money!
Atropa - Oct 28, 2009 1:47:40 pm PDT #28402 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I, shamefully, really like Disney's Little Mermaid. For the music. And Disney's Beauty And The Beast will always make me happy, because hey! Giant library! Plus it has one of my favorite scenes ever:
"Papa, do you think I'm odd?"
(Obviously kind of nutty inventor father rolls out from under current invention. While wearing goggles.)
"My daughter? Odd? Of course not!"
Hil R. - Oct 28, 2009 1:48:33 pm PDT #28403 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I met with my advisor.
I managed not to cry until I left his office.
Choice quote from today, "When you look at what you've written here, can you tell the difference between good writing and bad writing? Or do you think this is good writing?"
Also, he still has not read more than 2 pages of the sixteen-page paper I gave him over a month ago. But he also says that I can't put the paper up on arxiv until he OKs it.
Laga - Oct 28, 2009 1:54:51 pm PDT #28404 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
No shit? That makes 2 Buffistas who have won (some of) Ben Stein's money!
He beat me in the final round but yeah, I won a little.
JZ - Oct 28, 2009 1:58:42 pm PDT #28405 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Choice quote from today, "When you look at what you've written here, can you tell the difference between good writing and bad writing? Or do you think this is good writing?"
What an utter, utter fuckwad.
Glamcookie - Oct 28, 2009 2:03:05 pm PDT #28406 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Seriously. How is that in any way helpful? This guy is in the wrong profession.