I certainly don’t know—even though yesterday I visited the Vatican and did the tour thing. Nary a word was said about the current crisis facing the Pope. It was silence in the Sistine Chapel all the way. One thing about … Continue reading →
From The New Yorker: Ronell, who is sixty-six, is a literary scholar and philosopher at New York University and, by all accounts, one of the great academic minds of our time. Her accuser is Nimrod Reitman, her former doctoral student, … Continue reading →
My finger is not on the pulse of movies, and so I’d never heard of Asia Argento before the Weinstein scandal in which she was one of his earliest and most vocal accusers, a regular star of the #MeToo movement. … Continue reading →
..keeps on…trucking. I never had a taste for whatever it is she does. But anyway, she’s still doing it. At nearly 60.
Continue reading →I’ve never read anything by Bret Easton Ellis before. One reason is that I don’t like fiction all that much unless it’s fabulous, and I definitely don’t like violent fiction, which by all accounts American Psycho (Ellis’s most popular novel) … Continue reading →
I confess that I’d never heard of Les Moonves before the recent accusations of sexual harassment came out against him. I also have a general attitude against unverified allegations of this type, which I’ve expressed many times before, and it … Continue reading →
“Low-cost pheromones!!” a bot that tried to post today on the blog advertised. I used to get up to 10,000 spambots a day here, the vast majority trapped in a spam filter than I had to clean out several times … Continue reading →
Why don’t you LISTEN? [Hat tip: commenter “T”] I can’t believe I’ve never seen that before. So funny! [NOTE: This post was originally on my older blog and had comments, but unfortunately the comments didn’t transfer over here.]
Continue reading →And I mean big, big trouble. No Nobel Prize in literature will be awarded this year as a result. Pity (that’s sarcasm, in case it’s not clear). That first link I gave is to a very long story about the … Continue reading →
Bad and even dangerous advice, I might add, although neither uniformly bad nor uniformly dangerous. The author’s general suggestion is to let them be to work it out themselves, and/or to treat (or punish) them equally, which is actually quite … Continue reading →
Stalking isn’t funny; it’s serious and frightening. And this University of Central Florida professor who stalked a PhD student sounds remarkably obsessive about it: Ali Borji, a 39-year-old assistant professor in the school’s Department of Computer Science, was arrested at … Continue reading →
Here’s an article purporting to tell us what makes men more appealing to women. The list (apparently in no particular order) is supposedly based on research and contains seemingly contradictory things like “wear a scented deodorant” and “eat garlic.” Who … Continue reading →