You may have heard the news that a 9-year-old child who was born a boy but who identifies as a girl has been featured on the cover of National Geograhic: Avery’s family only ever refer to her as ‘she’, and … Continue reading →
…they really mean it: The airline, one of the world’s largest carriers, plans to introduce a new ‘basic economy’ fare in the New Year. But these tickets come with a catch. Passengers who buy the ‘basic economy’ ticket instead of … Continue reading →
…in the matter of the Sabrina Erdely story about bogus gang rape at UVA, the one that portrayed “Jackie” as victim extraordinaire. The verdict involved a finding of actual malice on the part of the periodical and Erdely: In a … Continue reading →
…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 →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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
…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 →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 →
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 →
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 →