Deviants were bumming!

This cartoon like, sums up my whole dissertation. Thanks, Tom!

Comments written on my dissertation

For the last three pages, you've been tearing this other person's dissertation apart, but here you are citing their evidence as proof of your own argument. Perhaps pick one or the other?

Here you write that newspaper readers sympathized with 'Man A' and not with 'Man B' because 'man a' was a respectable middle class bank clerk and 'Man B' was a homeless blackmailer. But have you considered whether newspaper readers also sympathized with 'Man A' because 'Man B' blackmailed him until 'Man A' killed himself, leaving behind a wife and child?


Here you've written that 'Cabaret Dancer A''s case shows that the police were tolerant of naked cabaret, because the police decided not to bring obscenity charges against her and she kept doing her show. Several pages later, in a small paragraph, you note that two years later, police did bring obscenity charges against 'Cabaret Dancer A', and she was tried, convicted, and fined. But you argue that "the fact that she was fined shows that her behavior was not prohibited--if fined, a person can still do the behavior they were fined for. They just have to pay a fine."--Is this the best example for this argument?

Scary moment

A few moments ago, I checked on the NYT front page online. The main picture is of Joe Biden wiping away tears during a speech. I saw it and immediately recognized the iconography we've all become so familiar with--a tearful guy in a suit, the American flag in the background--and my brain went: "Crap--sex scandal! It's all over!"

But no. He was just tearing up about Delaware. Whew!

What do you guys think of Biden as VP pick anyway?

The Shirt Test

I am at the beach with my parents and other family members, and had the following conversation with my dad.

Dad: Hey, YSA. Do you notice anything about this shirt I am wearing?
YSA: (Noticing striped golf shirt, but not seeing anything particularly interesting about it) No...
Dad: Do these stripes make me look fat?
YSA: No--hey, your shirt is on inside out.
Dad: That is right!
YSA: Hey, what is the deal? Was that some kind of test?
Dad: (Taking shirt off and putting it on right side out) Humph.
YSA: What was that, the final test? Like, 'Now that you have passed The Shirt Test, you are officially an adult'?
Dad: (Finishing putting shirt back on) No. That was a test to see if you are alive!
YSA: Dad, your shirt is on backwards now!
Dad: (Trying to fix backward shirt) Mmph.

No furniture in Canada!

I made it to Toronto. We took lots of pictures! But I have no internet and not really a phone, so you will have to use your imagination, reader. We have to get some furniture 'cause CC is bumming about having zero chairs. You really take chairs for granted until they're gone, it's true.