I just wrote to two LJ friends of mine who are enduring "lock-down season" by themselves. (A mere 3,000 miles apart and each committed to a different person -- IF you were wondering about me introducing them ( Read more... )

My apologies to one and all for not posting in the last three weeks. The Mid-term elections yesterday kind of overwhelmed me, and -- suddenly -- they were past ( Read more... )

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/06/27/feature/seeking-a-scientific-explanation-for-trans-identity-could-do-more-harm-than-good/Read more... )

An Aussie doctor, Lisa Pryor, wrote an op-ed in today's NYTimes, very sad for what Trumpsky has been up to ( Read more... )

Big news: this afternoon it was announced that the ongoing protests over the oil pipeline in the upper Midwest had done the trick. Public pressure has now stopped an environmentally dubious energy project. Stunning ( Read more... )

I just read a terrific analysis of the Brexit fiasco. It comes from the well regarded Anglo-American author Zadie Smith, in the current New York Review of Books ( Read more... )

http://ultradevi.tumblr.com/post/133601639712/pantiesnthings-isabellastandalittlebittaller (None of my caption made it, which is good, actually -- there are lots of other viewers' comments on this delicious sequence ( Read more... )

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There is a superb graphic on the NYTimes' opinion page, an Egypt-shaped piece of sandpaper with a single stick-match on it ( Read more... )