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Liavek 4 now available! Only $2.99! Stories by Robin Hobb, Gregory Frost, Steven Brust, John M. Ford, and Emma Bull!

Contents: "Pot Luck" by Megan Lindholm (Robin Hobb) "Show of Faith" by Gregory Frost "An Act of Trust" by Steven Brust "A Cup of Worrynot Tea" by John M. Ford "The Well-Made Plan" by Emma Bull Amazon.com:Liavek4 Barnes & Noble:Liavek 4 Smashwords –Liavek4 These stories were originally included inLiavek: The Players of Luck,which has been out of print for many years.

Identitarian classism: Oxford student refuses to tip waitress because she is white

Oxford student behind Rhodes Must Fall campaign says he refused to tip waitress because she is white | Daily Mail Online ETA: If you wonder whether Ntokozo Qwabe is a privileged Oxford student, theObz Cafedoesn't look cheap.There's something especially obnoxious about rich kids not tipping the servants. ETA 2:Tip the "Ntokozo Qwabe" Waitress by Ernst Shea-Kruger - GoFundMeWorth visiting

For people going mad because Apple Pages' epub conversion does weird things to the Table of Contents

Yes, this may just be a post for me. I spent hours trying to make an epub from a Pages document. Mind you, I've done this occasionally for years and still haven't a clue why this time I couldn't get a Table of Contents that would appear properly in other epub readers. Finally, I realized the Pages document's Table of Contents included the document's Title. I unchecked that in the ToC contents

Can anyone explain how I'm supposed to have doxed Nora Reed?

Just saw this tweet: femme ex machina@NoraReed 7 h special thanks to will shetterly and the fan club of people who hate me on metafilter for helping get me doxed again today~ Does anyone have a clue what that's about? So far as I know, I am alleged to have doxed one person in my life, someone who, at the time, was using her full legal name in public posts on her LJ that Google was

Kurt Vonnegut on being poor in America

In the comments atThe Worker and the Liberal, Kragar quoted this bit from Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five: America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, ‘It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.’ It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though

Robert Frost saw the problem with "intersectionality", a response to Tressie McMillan Cottom

InTrickle-Down Feminism, Revisited | Dissent Magazine, Tressie McMillan Cottom says, "As someone who clearly remembers Angela Y. Davis’sWomen, Race, and Class, I am skeptical that elite white women will do anything different to or for brown women, poor women, black women, queer people, and differently able-bodied women than would elite white men." Now, Cottom is one of the better

on liberal smugness, and questioning the assumption that racism drove the white working class to the Republican Party

I recommend both of these pieces on liberal smugness: The smug style in American liberalismby Emmett Rensin a few thoughts on liberal smugness | Fredrik deBoer As Freddie deBoer notes, the first piece is long, but it's got some very good bits, so stick with it and don't assume you know the writer's politics. Perhaps its theme is here: If the smug style can be reduced to a single sentence,

on smugness, and questioning the assumption that racism drove the white working class to the Republican Party

I recommend both of these pieces on liberal smugness: The smug style in American liberalismby Emmett Rensin a few thoughts on liberal smugness | Fredrik deBoer As Freddie deBoer notes, the first piece is long, but it's got some very good bits, so stick with it and don't assume you know the writer's politics. Perhaps its theme is here: If the smug style can be reduced to a single sentence,

I defined "identitarianism" at Urban Dictionary

I had forgotten that I submitted this:Urban Dictionary: identitarianism. Their approval process is long enough that I can't even guess if I wrote it three weeks or three months ago; the date only says when it was published. Looking at it now, I wish I'd clarified "gender feminism". I felt I had to use the term because it was the shortest alternative to "identitarian feminism", but it is going

Did Bernie Sanders vote to attack Libya? No.

tl;dr: Obama never asked the Senate for authorization to use military force against Libya, so no Senator had the chance to vote for or against war.FromObama, Libya and the authorization conflict - politics | NBC News: "Obama’s stance is striking: not only hasn’t he addressed the question of congressional authorization, but acting without it appears to be at odds with what he stood for when he