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Only a ginger…

March 30, 2010 – 5:08 pm

I’ve mentioned before that I used to have that kind of hair I think of as “Scots colour”, which is a mix of red, brown and blonde. My husband has reddish-brown hair too. When I fell pregnant with my daughter, suddenly all the red in my hair vanished. I knew exactly to whom it had [...]

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I am not an underclass

November 24, 2009 – 3:10 am

Disability sucks. I just thought you should know that. It’s sometimes painful, always inconvenient and inclined to bite gaping holes out of your self esteem. Most people are pretty reliable: they get up in the morning, go to work or school during the week and kick back on the weekends doing activities they enjoy once [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Posted in Economics, Personal, Politics, Public Policy, Society | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (59)

Crabs in a bucket

July 4, 2009 – 12:44 pm

In comments on my post on Michael Jackson, Su mentioned the “crabs in a bucket” syndrome that affects race relations in the US – the notion that those who were trying to escape from bad circumstances undermined others in the same predicament to further their own escape. Such a vivid metaphor for anyone who has [...]

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The information arms race

February 1, 2009 – 12:09 am

Like most Oxford graduate students, I subscribe to the UK’s ‘Milkround’ newsletter, which among other things is designed to give graduates useful employment tips and ‘inside’ information. Most of the time it’s anodyne but useful: I’ve secured some consulting work through it, as well as some legal work. Every now and again, however, something within [...]

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