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May 13, 2010

a note to that guy I saw earlier today wearing the purple camo cargo pants / open thread

Dude. Nobody’s gonna look for you in a vat of fucking grapes. So the pants? Total overkill. Just saying.

“A Downside of Racial Awareness?”

From Mark Bauerlein, Minding the Campus: For all the approval of diversity thinking, though, it may have a downside precisely for the universities that proclaim it so forcefully. For what if, in raising racial diversity awareness and emphasizing the racial climate of the campus, a university raises sensitivities to racial difference at the same time? If campus counselors, diversity officers, and others administrators lead seminars, training sessions, and orientations that

"A Downside of Racial Awareness?"

From Mark Bauerlein, Minding the Campus: For all the approval of diversity thinking, though, it may have a downside precisely for the universities that proclaim it so forcefully. For what if, in raising racial diversity awareness and emphasizing the racial climate of the campus, a university raises sensitivities to racial difference at the same time? If campus counselors, diversity officers, and others administrators lead seminars, training sessions, and orientations that

On textualism?

Rather than answer Patrick Frey’s latest “challenge” to intentionalism by explaining yet again how language functions over the life of a speech act, I have decided to try a new approach. Frey and many of his commenters claim to be textualists. Frey has argued (or at least, implied) that textualism as an interpretive methodology is if nothing else practical (and therefore legitimate) — though on what basis this is so