At Dispatches, Ed mocks Washington Post writer Jennifer Rubin for being aghast at an image of Barack Obama sitting on […]
politics, psychology
Ew, gross, ban that
Recently I finished listening to Jesse Bering’s book Why is the Penis Shaped Like That? And Other Reflections on Being […]
atheism, feminism, skepticism
Atheism Minus
…is my term for the collective group of idiots who contributed to Jen McCreight deciding that blogging is no longer […]
feminism, follow-up
Belaboring the obvious
Just a follow-up thought on my last post– you know, even if everyone’s personality matched their appearance exactly, and all […]
feminism, follow-up, sexism
Thanks for the confirmation
So you may remember a couple of weeks ago when I wrote about a particularly ridiculous blog post which claimed […]
movies, relationships, review
Review: Hope Springs
I went to see Hope Springs this afternoon with my mother, who has been married to my father 44 years. […]
podcasts, relationships
How not to be creepy
I listened today to the inaugural episode of the podcast for one of my favorite blogs, Dr. Nerdlove. The podcast is […]
bigotry, freedom of speech, LGBT
Memo to Tony Perkins
You do not get to operate a hate group without being called a hate group. Sorry. Yes, when your group […]
gaming
PAX panels on harassment in gaming
From an article in Slate this morning, What It’s Like For a Girl Gamer, I learned that there will be […]