Gabbro B-Sides

Politics

• 4 Jan 2008: Caucus

  
  Politics: Dennis Kucinich, Iowa caucuses, Iowa City, presidential elections · no comments

• 3 Jan 2008: Notes from the Iowa Frontlines

  
  Politics: Bill Richardson, Hillary Clinton, Iowa caucuses, presidential elections · 2 comments

• 4 Dec 2007: How to Earn Your Diversity Cookie Without Doing a Damn Thing

  
  Politics: affirmative action, anti-racism, feminism, let's all preserve the status quo, white liberals who want cookies · 6 comments

• 28 Nov 2007: Shaking in Marie Curie’s Boots

  
  Human Fuzzies, Politics, Science: blog carnivals, books, scientiae, women in science · no comments

• 1 Nov 2007: We’re Good Enough, We’re Smart Enough, and Gosh Darn It, We’re the November Scientiae!

  
  Links, Politics, Science: blog carnivals, feminism, gender, impostor syndrome, scientiae, sexism, zombies · 15 comments

• 22 Oct 2007: Carnivalling

  
  Links, Politics, Science: blog carnivals, civil liberties, scientiae · 1 comment

• 3 Oct 2007: November Scientiae Call for Posts

  
  Politics, Science: blog carnivals, scientiae · 3 comments

• 28 Sep 2007: Friday iTunes iChing: UC TA Strike

  
  Politics: academia, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, labor unions · no comments

• 31 Aug 2007: Friday iTunes iChing: Marriage in Iowa

  
  Politics: Friday random ten, Iowa, iTunes iChing, same-sex marriage · 2 comments

• 30 Aug 2007: Notes From the Books Precariously Stacked on My Bedside Table

  
  Human Fuzzies, Politics, Science: feminism, feminisms, history, psychology, racism, rape, sexism, trashy novels, white studies · 3 comments

• 29 Jul 2007: Understanding Everyday Symbolism

  
  Politics: hate crimes, racism · 6 comments

• 26 Jul 2007: Galveston Bids for Darwin Award

  
  Politics, Science: idiocy, natural hazards, urban planning · 3 comments

• 24 Jul 2007: Summer Doldrum Linky Fun

  
  Links, Politics: blog carnivals, Danish, death penalty, funny, youtube · 5 comments

• 13 Jul 2007: Cheap Irony

  
  Politics: bookstores, white supremacist capitalist patriarchy · no comments

• : Friday Fun Poll: Planetary Warming

  
  Politics, Science, Whimsy: climate change, planetary science · 1 comment

• 6 Jul 2007: Friday Links and iTunes iChing

  
  Links, Politics, Science, Whimsy: blog carnivals, feminism, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, poverty · 2 comments

• 4 Jul 2007: Fourth of July: I’m Doin’ It Wrong

  
  Politics: cat macros, fuck the Enlightenment, patriotism · 11 comments

• 1 Jul 2007: Leaving the Ivory Tower

  
  Human Fuzzies, Politics, Science: academia, book reviews, grad school, Phi Delta Qoppa · 3 comments

• 21 Jun 2007: Asking for a Pony

  
  Politics: academia, blog carnivals, entitlement, grad school, Phi Delta Qoppa, scientiae · 4 comments

• 13 Jun 2007: Leaking From the Pipeline (Again)

  
  Personal, Politics, Science: academia, grad school, life as a leak, Phi Delta Qoppa · 14 comments

• 3 Apr 2007: How Much NSF Grant Money Can One Bad Apple Control?

  
  Politics, Science: blog carnivals, peer review, scientiae, sexism · 5 comments

• 27 Mar 2007: Look What the Discovery Channel Thinks of Female Engineers

  
  Politics, Science: feminism, media, sexism, women in engineering · 22 comments

• 24 Mar 2007: Rape: Still Judged by Your Relationship to the Rapist

  
  Politics: bravery, rape · 7 comments

• 13 Mar 2007: Science as Culture, and Cultural Depictions Thereof

  
  Politics, Science: science in pop culture, white supremacist capitalist patriarchy · 9 comments

• 3 Mar 2007: Belated Carnival Post

  
  Politics, Science: academia, anti-racism, blog carnivals, feminism, gender, grad school, scientiae · 17 comments

• 1 Feb 2007: And So Begins the Tedious Commentary on Hillary’s Gender

  
  Politics: gender, Hillary Clinton, lazy journalism, sexism · 6 comments

• 30 Jan 2007: What’s the Good News of Geology?

  
  Politics, Science: fund my research or San Francisco gets it, lay science, philosophy of science · 16 comments

• 15 Jan 2007: Martin Luther King, Jr., Geologist

  
  Politics, Science: Martin Luther King Jr., rhetorical tactics · 6 comments

• 7 Nov 2006: The Last-Minute Ballot

  
  Politics: California ballot propositions, endorsements · no comments

• 27 Oct 2006: Psst… Partisan Googlebomb

  
  Politics: anti-endorsements, googlebombs · 2 comments

• 14 Oct 2006: 2006 Election Endorsements: City of Oakland and Alameda County Contests

  
  Politics: Alameda County, endorsements, local elections, Oakland · 4 comments

• 12 Oct 2006: When You Join the Teapot Tempest, You Know Your Bloggy Groove Is Returning

  
  Meta, Politics: blogular wanking, feminism, role models · 7 comments

• : Seismograms from North Korea

  
  Politics, Science: earthquakes, nuclear weapons, seismograms · 4 comments

• 3 Oct 2006: Well I Never

  
  Links, Politics, Science: feminism, sexism, women in science · 5 comments

• 30 Aug 2006: Block, Writer’s

  
  Personal, Politics: domesticity, sewing, sexism · 7 comments

• 25 Aug 2006: Tidbits

  
  Links, Politics, Science: Caltech, ground water, Mars, Pluto · 15 comments

• 9 Aug 2006: Publication and Citation Rates of Female Earthquake Engineers

  
  Politics, Science: academia, earthquake engineering, gender, Science · 5 comments

• 8 Aug 2006: My Identity is a List of Links

  
  Links, Politics, Science: angst, anti-racism, porous media, sexism, white studies · 15 comments

• 3 Aug 2006: Truth, Justice, and the Academic Way

  
  Politics, Science: academia, gender, rhetorical tactics, scientific culture · 32 comments

• 2 Aug 2006: Shorter Responses to Ben Barres

  
  Politics: academia, gender, sexism, snark, women in science · 12 comments

• 19 Jul 2006: I Read Wifework So You Don’t Have To

  
  Human Fuzzies, Politics: book reviews, feminism, gender, marriage, sexism · 5 comments

• 15 Jul 2006: Call for Interviewees: Women in STEMM

  
  Politics, Science: women in science · 28 comments

• 10 Jul 2006: Sunday, Day of Links

  
  Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics, Science: fascist police states, Joseph Campbell, science studies · 2 comments

• 6 Jul 2006: Isolated Wackiness, Shared By Everybody in the Whole Damn County

  
  Politics: anti-Semitism, Christian hegemony, zombies · 4 comments

• 3 Jul 2006: How Avis and the University of California are Destroying the Environment

  
  Personal, Politics: capitalism sucks, environmentalism, SUVs · 1 comment

• 29 Jun 2006: Images to Amend the Constitution By

  
  Politics: Dianne Feinstein, flag-burning, freedom of speech · 1 comment

• 27 Jun 2006: Blissfully Unaware of my Peril

  
  Human Fuzzies, Politics: evolutionary psychology, marriage, wedding-industrial complex · 8 comments

• 7 Jun 2006: A Brief Discussion of Other People’s Politics

  
  Politics: climate change, plumbers, rhetorical tactics · 5 comments

• 6 Jun 2006: I’ll Stick to Compost, Thanks

  
  Politics: Berzerkeley, gardening, religion · 9 comments

• 17 May 2006: On the Racial Dynamics of Bus Boarding

  
  Politics: racism, white studies · 7 comments

• : Miss Manners vs. the Washington Post

  
  Politics: miss manners, sexism, the walking uterus · 1 comment

• 11 May 2006: Wine is for Men*

  
  Human Fuzzies, Politics: lazy journalism, wine · 2 comments

• 3 May 2006: Fuck This Shit, I’m Moving to Oakland

  
  Politics: Berzerkeley · 1 comment

• 24 Apr 2006: Brains in Jars Have Needs Too

  
  Politics, Science: academia, mentoring, science studies · no comments

• 18 Apr 2006: There Goes $14,000

  
  Politics: academia, money, sexism · 14 comments

• 29 Mar 2006: Insert “In Soviet Russia…” Joke Here

  
  Politics, Science: peaceful nuclear explosions, seismology · 10 comments

• 25 Mar 2006: Breaking News: Video Games Still Sexist

  
  Personal, Politics: sexism, stereotypes, video games · 2 comments

• 13 Mar 2006: Quickies

  
  Aimless, Links, Politics, Science: better living through science, mystery rocks, scientific culture, sexism · 9 comments

• : The Rhetoric of Patriarchy

  
  Human Fuzzies, Politics: feminism, patriarchy, rhetorical tactics, words · no comments

• 14 Feb 2006: You Say Patriarchy, I Say Pahtriarchy

  
  Politics: feminisms, patriarchy, rhetorical nit-picking · 4 comments

• 7 Feb 2006: Oh Look, the “Jobs for Men” Section

  
  Personal, Politics: advertising, sexism · no comments

• 31 Jan 2006: Procrastinating Things

  
  Links, Politics: blog carnivals, denmark, offensive humor, patriarchy, psychology, racism, relationships · 3 comments

• 19 Jan 2006: Go Grey Lady Go!

  
  Politics, Science: evolutionary psychology, lazy journalism · 2 comments

• 4 Jan 2006: The Privileged Huff

  
  Politics: defensiveness, racism, white studies · 4 comments

• 22 Dec 2005: All I Haven’t Said

  
  Links, Personal, Politics, Teaching: ambition, Caltech, death penalty, liberty, white studies · 3 comments

• 19 Dec 2005: Happy Whatever

  
  Politics: holidays · 6 comments

• 8 Dec 2005: AGU Four

  
  Links, Personal, Politics: american geophysical union, feminism, peer review, pharmacists, socks · 3 comments

• 1 Dec 2005: Happy Blog Against Racism Day!

  
  Politics: anti-racism, blog carnivals, racism · 4 comments

• 26 Nov 2005: My Neighbors Are Penis Zombies

  
  Politics: Berzerkeley · 4 comments

• 23 Nov 2005: Own Your Own Conditional Penultimate Paragraphs

  
  Human Fuzzies, Politics, Science: feminism, rhetorical tactics, scientific culture · 2 comments

• 17 Nov 2005: Marital Rape Criminalized in Mexico, et al.

  
  Links, Politics: games, marital rape, Mexico · 4 comments

• 16 Nov 2005: On Co-ops and Community

  
  Human Fuzzies, Politics: co-ops, consensus, intentional community · 4 comments

• 11 Nov 2005: Friday iTunes iChing: Guantanamo

  
  Politics: Friday random ten, Guantanamo, habeas corpus, iTunes iChing · 4 comments

• : Happy Armistice Day

  
  Politics: Armistice Day, pacifism · no comments

• 8 Nov 2005: Increasingly Tending to Non Sequiturs

  
  Links, Politics, Whimsy: boobies, geomythology, grad school, memes, myth, patriarchy, rape, t-shirt slogans · 7 comments

• 1 Nov 2005: Plebiscite Time Is Fun Time

  
  Politics: abortion, California ballot propositions, co-op living, MediCal, teacher tenure · 9 comments

• 29 Oct 2005: Operation Frozen Beaver a Dismal Failure

  
  Politics: flags, Hans Island · 4 comments

• 26 Oct 2005: How Homosexuality Hurts You

  
  Politics, Science: queerness, smart-assery, yeast · 3 comments

• 7 Oct 2005: Friday Review of Stuff

  
  Human Fuzzies, Politics: Berzerkeley, restaurant reviews · 5 comments

• 28 Sep 2005: Hump Day a Lump a Dump Day

  
  Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: Hans Island, idiocy, kugel · no comments

• 21 Sep 2005: Balancing Work and Family: Just Use Your Penis

  
  Politics: lazy journalism, lifestyles of the privileged minority, sexism, work vs. family · 2 comments

• 12 Sep 2005: The 4th Circuit Pees on the 4th Amendment

  
  Politics: civil liberties, fascist police states, FEMA · 2 comments

• 9 Sep 2005: Anecdotes

  
  Personal, Politics: academia, co-op living, feminism, rhetorical tactics, sexism · 4 comments

• 6 Sep 2005: Berkeley Time

  
  Personal, Politics: art, Berzerkeley, co-op living · 10 comments

• 3 Sep 2005: The Red Cross Is the Military. Or Something.

  
  Politics: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans · no comments

• 30 Aug 2005: For Shame, Agence France-Press!

  
  Politics: Hurricane Katrina, racism · no comments

• 17 Aug 2005: Democracy is So Wearying

  
  Links, Politics: California ballot propositions · no comments

• 13 Aug 2005: Fookin’ Marketing

  
  Personal, Politics: i hate everything, magazines, sexism · 1 comment

• 5 Aug 2005: Friday Miscellany

  
  Human Fuzzies, Politics: Friday random ten, Hans Island, Harry Potter · 2 comments

• 8 Jul 2005: Stop to smell the roses…

  
  Politics: guest posts, monkeys · no comments

• 30 Jun 2005: Offloading Tangential Meta-Rape Discussion Gripes

  
  Politics: rape, rhetorical nit-picking, rhetorical tactics, the Pussy Oversoul · no comments

• 29 Jun 2005: Stop to smell the roses…

  
  Politics, Science: guest posts, monkeys · no comments

• 16 Jun 2005: Garbage Day

  
  Links, Politics, Science: Caltech, classism, Dianne Feinstein, earthquakes, feminism, flag-burning, rape, welfare · 4 comments

• 12 Jun 2005: Chronology

  
  Personal, Politics: fashion, feminism, plumbers, sexism · 9 comments

• 8 Jun 2005: Stuff for Sale and the Intertwixtion of All Oppressions

  
  Personal, Politics: advertising, craigslist, feminism, feminisms, racism, sexism, the Ur-Oppression, torture · 6 comments

• 3 Jun 2005: Mr. Clean on the Path to Anti-Feminism

  
  Politics: capitalism sucks, domesticity, empowerfulness, funny · 15 comments

• : Feminist Web Notes

  
  Links, Politics: feminism, rhetorical tactics, the Pussy Oversoul · no comments

• 1 Jun 2005: Modern Society

  
  Links, Politics: health care, impeach Bush, Internet activism, telephony · 5 comments

• : Academic Insecurity Builds Character

  
  Personal, Politics, Science: academia, brain in a jar, impostor syndrome · 5 comments

• 30 May 2005: Sweet Sweet Unemployment

  
  Links, Meta, Politics: blogtinkery, environmentalism, WordPress, workers rights · 3 comments

• 25 May 2005: For the Record

  
  Politics: feminism, rhetorical tactics · 5 comments

• 23 May 2005: In Lieu of Zurgh Urfle Blah

  
  Links, Politics: kittens, networking, science jokes, women in science · 4 comments

• 18 May 2005: Defining Feminism: Once More, with Feeling

  
  Politics: feminism, feminisms, marriage, peer pressure · 7 comments

• 9 May 2005: Deconstructing Teh Funnay

  
  Politics: offensive humor, rhetorical tactics · 9 comments

• 4 May 2005: California Senate Bill 5: Freedom is Coming!

  
  Politics: academic freedom, California politics · 4 comments

• : Penis-Talk Redux

  
  Politics: lifestyles of the privileged minority, masculinity · 11 comments

• 27 Apr 2005: H.R. 902, Presidential $1 Coin Act of 2005

  
  Politics: Congressional shenanigans, money · 7 comments

• : Defamation in the Congressional Record, hoorah!

  
  Politics: abortion, Congressional shenanigans · 6 comments

• 26 Apr 2005: Assorted Mysticisms

  
  Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: nutrition, sin, trilobites · 7 comments

• 25 Apr 2005: Anything but That!

  
  Politics: Congressional shenanigans · no comments

• : Feminisms

  
  Politics: feminism, feminisms, ideological boundary police · 4 comments

• 5 Apr 2005: Only Terrorists Go to Canada

  
  Politics: fascist police states, Homeland Stupidity, passports · 17 comments

• 4 Apr 2005: Links to Daylight’s Rescue

  
  Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: concert bands, Holst, labor unions, Taco Bell, workers rights · 2 comments

• 31 Mar 2005: Today’s RSS Zeitgeist: Cheapskates

  
  Politics: classism, consumerism, eccentricity, money · 6 comments

• 30 Mar 2005: Pharmaceuticals

  
  Politics: pharmacists · 7 comments

• 14 Mar 2005: Middle Klass

  
  Personal, Politics: academia, classism, money · 14 comments

• 23 Feb 2005: What I’m Reading Tonight

  
  Links, Politics: Caltech, endorsements, feminisms, local elections, Pasadena, political tactics · 7 comments

• 21 Feb 2005: The Moral Matrix

  
  Politics: quizzes · 4 comments

• 17 Feb 2005: Initiative

  
  Politics: dating, feminism, gender, rape · 3 comments

• 15 Feb 2005: How to Ward Off Rapists

  
  Politics, Whimsy: rape, satire · 6 comments

• 5 Feb 2005: Roe v. Wade: Googlebombing Abortion

  
  Politics: abortion, Internet activism · 1 comment

• 4 Feb 2005: Trombones of Great Injustice

  
  Politics: fascist police states, Geneva conventions,