tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-241430010548582650.comments2014-02-07T11:04:12.521-08:00The Ripple EffectAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06650637085631972159noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-241430010548582650.post-87646509906778485162014-02-07T07:22:17.106-08:002014-02-07T07:22:17.106-08:00Great review, I am so excited to read it I can'...Great review, I am so excited to read it I can't wait! I've also read and loved all of India's adventures, Carol K. Carr is awesome!!Dee DeTarsiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14614978375232163228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-241430010548582650.post-631406075173371702014-02-05T15:09:06.898-08:002014-02-05T15:09:06.898-08:00Thanks for the lovely review! Glad you enjoyed the...Thanks for the lovely review! Glad you enjoyed the book.Carolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02069656952527430818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-241430010548582650.post-27689458179602442882013-06-06T19:31:28.783-07:002013-06-06T19:31:28.783-07:00Hey,
Great list. Thanks so much!
TJHey,<br />Great list. Thanks so much!<br />TJAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01785190595829524494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-241430010548582650.post-91715994779634636462012-11-03T10:43:59.631-07:002012-11-03T10:43:59.631-07:00Thank you for the thoughtful review, Audrey.Thank you for the thoughtful review, Audrey.Rhys Bowenhttp://www.rhysbowen.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-241430010548582650.post-85763130211144007692012-10-01T07:13:54.347-07:002012-10-01T07:13:54.347-07:00I think the growth of violence is mostly due purel...I think the growth of violence is mostly due purely to the increased reach of violence (it's much easier to execute a massacre nowadays) and the increased population.<br /><br />The ability for one person to casually effect a bombing run thousands of miles away makes mass violence not merely trivial but inevitable. Our motives and morals haven't changed nearly as much as our technology.Marknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-241430010548582650.post-68221714479095262702012-09-20T15:04:01.218-07:002012-09-20T15:04:01.218-07:00This book was honestly very disconcerting to me as...This book was honestly very disconcerting to me as a 25 year old male who has watched a lot of these changes unfold. I'm distressed to see the potential of so many good men I know fail to be actualized. I feel like the book in many ways was meant to make me feel this way. <br /><br />Rosin presents the rise of both women and men as mutually exclusive. I think most disturbing to me was the story of the young woman who enters pharmacy school but seems to have maintained a relationship with her house-painting boyfriend. I'm not disturbed by her success, rather its the voyeur aspect. Its Rosin on the outside looking in that disturbs me. She characterized him as a complete imbecile at the end of the chapter hacking away at a fish while his newly minted intellectual girlfriend opens up her bio book to get the whole story. She watches history channel, he watches Jackass. The women talk about him while he's away and how he can't be seen or heard around a pharmacy crowd thats too educated. I went to a school with a great pharmacy program and its a real form of snobbery I've just come to despise. The women in the '109' club could have a hell of a time if their incomes plummet as the pharmacist shortage is filled, and their incomes drop the way commercial pilots incomes dropped in my parents lifetime. <br /><br />Rosin could have picked a couple that were both in pharmacy school, but she didn't. Even the chapter on the lawyer couple is meant to make us see the divide. I really appreciate seeing how Sarah seemed to lift Steven up and (we can only assume) inspire him to be a lawyer too. But I want to hear more about his flexibility and the personal journey that made him that way. Personally it was a relationship with a truly wonderful and ambitious young woman that helped me become more flexible.<br /><br />Strangely I really do praise this book. These are things that need to be written about, and I don't doubt that these case studies are legit. The end seems to indicate some hope for men's flexibility, but by that point I just felt far too ashamed of my own gender to embrace it. I just don't know if I can sit here and feel happy about a story of young women who just one day chose to embrace the path to the upper middle class. The story I would have really loved to see in this book that I heard on Marketplace recently was about a young woman who had been in the military, culinary school and when she couldn't find a job became CNC certified as a machinist for a good steady income. I'd just rather hear about people who do what they have too, but then maybe its just something about this economy that has me so conflicted. In the end, 5 years watching pharmacy students take home fortunes after graduation made me just wish them the best, and thats as much close to these women as I can really feel. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-241430010548582650.post-54449918899458640572012-09-13T16:08:06.685-07:002012-09-13T16:08:06.685-07:00Eh, you know how these books are. It's easy t...Eh, you know how these books are. It's easy to perceive some trends and extrapolate from them. It's really, really, really hard to be right.<br /><br />Read sociological prognostication books from the 1950s and 60s if you want to feel better about this one. It'll show how hard it is to evaluate the present, much less see the future.<br /><br />Besides, the data is often confused. For instance, violence by women seems to be rising. But much morso the <i>reportage</i> is rising. People are more likely to report having been attacked by a woman; police are more likely to take it seriously; the media is also more likely to report it.<br /><br />If women excel at service jobs, it's not necessarily because they're just better suited to service than men are. It could just be that women are likely to wind up in service jobs -- and are competent.<br /><br />So be liberal with the grains of salt. Remember, you're more likely to get published if your views are a bit more extreme. No one gets a bestseller by calling it "Things Have Changed A Little, I Think".Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15393115906242464350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-241430010548582650.post-10641074238126424322012-07-10T18:20:27.414-07:002012-07-10T18:20:27.414-07:00Well, you never know. I'm not really an optim...Well, you never know. I'm not really an optimist, myself, but a lot of our problems, going forward, are really the same problems that previous generations have had, just in new forms. And if you figure we've gotten through a hundred thousand generations so far, you may find reason to think that we'll muddle through somehow.<br /><br />That doesn't mean that the muddling isn't facilitated by a mighty effort by a small percentage of the population, though.<br /><br />I've always been of the northern philosophy, believing that doom is the natural destiny, and that value comes from not giving into it easily. Beowulf asks his men to help him fight the dragon, and only one guy is willing to go with him, but Beowulf goes to fight the dragon anyway. He doesn't survive, but who does?Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15393115906242464350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-241430010548582650.post-33594968694004381632012-05-18T09:18:38.344-07:002012-05-18T09:18:38.344-07:00Thanks, Kevin! We first became involved because we...Thanks, Kevin! We first became involved because we were two suburban kids who wanted to learn all bout growing our own food - and we did! The experience we've gained is absolutely invaluable, and has changed our perspectives on how the world works and our place within it. Please keep checking back for more Garden posts!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06650637085631972159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-241430010548582650.post-60354279531474414302012-05-04T11:44:08.365-07:002012-05-04T11:44:08.365-07:00This is great example for other communities; a pro...This is great example for other communities; a project like this can help our environment to be better and it may encourage other families to support organic farming within city limits. It’s also a good instrument on teaching children on how vegetables are cultivated.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.epsbuildings.com/" rel="nofollow">Kevin Noel</a>Kevin Noelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02219710876049569535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-241430010548582650.post-85481161787793336772012-04-19T07:01:29.279-07:002012-04-19T07:01:29.279-07:00Cool hula video! This is one of my faves! http://w...Cool hula video! This is one of my faves! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKaFX_mQBhULeannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09506937214630045915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-241430010548582650.post-24682622331933791882012-03-18T09:59:33.397-07:002012-03-18T09:59:33.397-07:00This. Is. So. Awesome.This. Is. So. Awesome.laurenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10786907138463447140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-241430010548582650.post-15563173556603980242010-06-26T11:04:21.293-07:002010-06-26T11:04:21.293-07:00I have been, quite angrily, tracking this oil spil...I have been, quite angrily, tracking this oil spill story since the beginning. It's nauseating, heartbreaking, terrifying, baffling, bewildering and a million other sentiments. This is a complete disaster and I feel like, in a lot of ways, it's being swept under the rug. And I find it utterly distressing to hear that there are some out there who are still pressing for more drilling off the coast.<br /><br />If you're interested, check this out: stopthedrill.orgAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02821505609271499347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-241430010548582650.post-18781530154587772192008-08-04T11:33:00.000-07:002008-08-04T11:33:00.000-07:00I WAS NOT AWARE YOU HAD A BLOG.I WAS NOT AWARE YOU HAD A BLOG.Kate Burckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10733903280000599616noreply@blogger.com