Onward, upward, thruward

I thought we--the clinic, my feminist friend and I--were all on one side [...] What I read made me sick. It should have made me sick. And now that the verdict is in, I know that it's true.

Patience is a virtue, but these eight inventions, including anesthesia, prove that laziness, slovenliness, clumsiness, and pure stupidity can be virtues, too

Card, to me, is not the only person who matters here [...] But he’s also a particularly noxious illustration of a paradox that plagues politically engaged consumers of culture: a terrible person who has made significant art. [*]

"You guys know about vampires? You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There’s this idea that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. And what I’ve always thought isn’t that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. It’s that if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.

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