Let us now pause to consider the fact that…
…this is an apparently serious piece by a professor of linguistics at Berkeley. For real. Not a joke. Not a parody. Not the Onion.
Continue reading →Category Archives: Men and women; marriage and divorce and sex
On grabbing someone by the pussy, and consent
Boy, that’s one title I didn’t think I’d be typing in this lifetime. But politics makes strange—bedfellows. And so I’ll briefly deconstruct the phrase. First, the actual quote by Trump: Yeah, that’s her. With the gold. I better use some … Continue reading →
Trump: doing it in the street and frightening the horses
Since the firestorm erupted around the release of the audio of Trump’s remarks to Billy Bush in 2005, there have been a number of arguments advanced to counter it. One very popular one involves comparisons to Bill Clinton’s misbehavior and … Continue reading →
Trump and Machado: it’s not about the women
There are about five weeks to Election Day. No time to waste. But instead, Donald Trump seems to be putting a lot of his energy into tweets about Alicia Machado, in response to a remark by Hillary Clinton during the … Continue reading →
I never really loved you
This quote from Nicole Kidman about her marriage to Tom Cruise caught my eye at Yahoo: Nicole Kidman on Marrying Tom Cruise at Age 23: ”˜I Look Back Now and I’m Like, “What?”’ I thought the article was going to … Continue reading →
And now for something really important—and non-Trump-related…
…is this the end of Brangelina? Is anyone surprised? [NOTE: Actually, you may have noticed I haven’t written anything about Donald Trump today. Every now and then I need to take a Trump vacation.]
Continue reading →Hillary and the “woman president” thing
Here’s an article by Peter Beinart in the Atlantic which is exactly the sort of thing I expected more of from liberals and the left this election cycle. It explains anti-Hillary sentiment as being motivated by the fact that she’s … Continue reading →
Tolstoy on Communism—and a lot of other things
Leo Tolstoy lived from 1828 to 1910, and was probably just as famous for his political and religious/social beliefs as he was for his writing (maybe even more so). Tolstoy was a Titan of energy and creativity who later in … Continue reading →
More on the question of whether gay or transgendered people are born that way
This old question has been in the news again recently because of the publication of a massive study on the subject that’s just been published, written by two Johns Hopkins affiliated professors, Laurence Mayer and Paul McHugh, that says there’s … Continue reading →
10 disgusting facts about ancient Rome
The facts listed are mostly about lack of hygiene, and those really are pretty disgusting. I already knew about numbers five and two. Re number five, I remember when I was a teenager and went to Europe with a large … Continue reading →
Medea in Texas
You’ve probably heard about Christy Sheats, 42, the Texas mother who recently killed her 17- and 22-year-old daughters in front of their father, citing as her motivation a desire to punish him (she committed the murders on his birthday). The … Continue reading →
On the Orlando attack and Latinos, and the attitude of Islam towards gay people
It’s heartbreaking to look at the photos of all these young people murdered by terrorist Omar Mateen. As I was doing so, however, I couldn’t help but notice that the vast majority of the victims seemed to be Latino, a … Continue reading →