Dear Robin, Our only child is getting married soon. My husband and I love his fiancĂ© and are fully supportive […]
The latest indignity
Dignity is a sort of agreement between people. A decision to grant that a person, or body of people, deserve […]
People being stupid about Zarya
Sigh. Guys, Zarya is a character in a video game. Not a real person auditioning to be your girlfriend.
Zarya
Today at PAX East, Blizzard revealed two new playable characters for its upcoming FPS game Overwatch, announced last November at […]
Oversexualize? Overnope.
Last November during BlizzCon, I wrote a post critiquing the design of some of the female playable characters as compared […]
Naming of names
At work the other day, we got into a discussion about names. Weird family names, bizarre nicknames, the difference (if […]
Calling it justice doesn’t make it just
Apparently in the uproar over beheadings committed by ISIS, some have noticed that America’s ally Saudi Arabia has committed quite a […]
In the virtue stakes, reverence leaves empathy at the starting line
In France, individual citizens run a satirical magazine, the Charlie Hebdo, which publishes cartoons making fun of Muhammad among countless […]