exclusive: abortion by prescription now rivals surgery for u.s. women reuters 




no kegs, no liquor: college crackdown targets drinking and sexual assault nyt. if the number one priority of the university nomenklatura had in fact been the prevention of sexual assault, they wouldn<u+2019>t have been running courses on microaggression . they<u+2019>d have been cracking down on today<u+2019>s drinking culture, the venues where that culture is enacted (often fraternities), and they<u+2019>d be empowering women with self-defense courses (which would give them a life-long skill). but that would have involved cracking down on powerful on-campus actors (fraternity alumni and legacies, ka-ching), powerful off-campus local actors (liquor stores and bars, ka-ching), might have led to difficulties with admissions numbers (ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching) since by now students expect to <u+201c>party<u+201d><u+2014> not a verb when i was a mere sprat <u+2014> and, most importantly of all, would have prevented the formation of deans of microaggression, departments of microaggression, and an entire academic circuit devoted to microaggression studies, including journals, conferences, and books. i mean, (cishet) guys, if she<u+2019>s not drunk and/or she<u+2019>s ready, willing, and able to kick you in the nuts, then the whole <u+201c>no means <u+2018>no'<u+201d> semantic foofraw gets a whole lot simpler, does it not? so if the headline indicates a trend, i<u+2019>m happy, not least because this approach promises to reduce sexual assault. 




standing rock water-protectors waterboarded while the cleveland indians romped counterpunch (ws). 




the myth behind the first cleveland indian: louis sockalexis daily beast. sockalexis was from indian island, in the penobscot nation near old town, maine. there really ought to be a way to honor sockalexis without tarting up the cleveland indians logo. maybe if it were less cartoonish? heck, why not just ask the penoscots? 




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