Why Monica, why now?: After 10 years of virtual silence (“So silent, in fact,” she writes, “that the buzz in some circles has been that the Clintons must have paid me off; why else would I have refrained from speaking … Continue reading →
The foibles of Donald Sterling and his mistress have somehow managed to remind me of these guys, another pair with a rather large age gap, and who represented what in those days (1974) passed for an ethnically diverse couple: For … Continue reading →
I haven’t the time or interest to wade through the entirety of this NY Times Magazine article on how Barack Obama’s views on gay marriage “evolved”; I merely briefly skimmed the first third of it. But Ann Althouse has done … Continue reading →
I’ve heard for years, perhaps even decades, that the oft-quoted statistic about women’s wages being so much lower than men’s as a result of wage discrimination is a myth, an artifact of other factors than discrimination. So this sort of … Continue reading →
Here’s Sullivan[emphasis mine]: Hillary Clinton only declared her support for marriage equality in 2013. Before that, she opposed it. In 2000, she said that marriage “has a historic, religious and moral context that goes back to the beginning of time. … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →The folks at Mozilla may yet live to regret their decision in cooperating with the forcing out of Brendan Eich. Apparently the internet giant has been getting a lot of negative reaction to its jettisoning of Eich for his 2008 … Continue reading →
If you want to read two wonderful pieces on the subject of Eich’s resignation and the movement that led to it, start with this one, from whence comes this excerpt: This is NOT about Prop 8, gay marriage and religion. … Continue reading →
[NOTE: In my earlier post today on the Charles Koch piece at the WSJ, I mentioned that I couldn’t get through the firewall to the article. Since then, the WSJ has kindly removed it from behind the wall, and this … Continue reading →
This piece by Margaret Carlson is disingenuous and/or purposely misleading in so many ways it’s hard to choose one to highlight, but I’ll deal with one of the simplest: it discusses the Hobby Lobby case without once mentioning that the … Continue reading →
I’ve seen a couple of these Princess Cruise ads on TV, and they really drew my attention. I think they’re brilliant, actually. In a rut? The ads sell the company’s cruises as a way to get out of that rut, … Continue reading →
Basically, what they’re reading is a lot of what used to be called porn. And I don’t mean sneaking around to get it, or looking at it online. I mean that the young adult book market—books written expressively for young … Continue reading →