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Hugo Schwyzer, renowned male "feminist," attempted murderer, proud WASP (the WASPS! So downtrodden! Yes?), super gross "I slept with a million students while I was supposed to be teaching them about feminism let me tell you it was hot but I've chaaaanged and I'll never do it again (but did I emphasize its hotness enough? I'm not sure I did!) but ( Read more... )

When exit polls showed that 70 percent of blacks had voted in favor of Prop 8, some Mormons, including Jordan [Ferney], thought it was unfair that people weren't protesting outside black churches. "It's because that's an intimidating crowd," she says. "Whereas me and my little 3-year-old walking out of a church isn't very scary. It's really easy to ( Read more... )

Okay, so admittedly I'm more of a grammar/usage stickler than your average bear, but as much as everyone should take the 5 seconds and think about which its/it's they need to use and take the half a day or so required to master the use of apostrophes in general (particularly those who work with signage), just let us "beg the question" without ( Read more... )

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Oh, I don't care what you do or who you do or who you have to grease, but believe me when I tell you that your butt should totally be in a really good seat at the Kennedy Center for the RSC's productions of The Canterbury Tales Part 1 and Part 2.

Ha! Okay, so there aren't actually any good seats at the Kennedy Center. Everything's, like, ten ( Read more... )

Perhaps no one but mercuryfading and myself are aware of our heroic quest to visit every single pub/bar/watering hole in St. Andrews ( Read more... )

Fighting Indecency, One Bleep at a Time

Here's an idea: why don't we use that organ located somewhere above our necks? It's called the braiiiin and I hear it can tell you that if a show is called Sex in the City it might concern actual, I dunno, sex? From time to time. Or if a show is about cops and is billed as "gritty" there might be some ( Read more... )

I would slap Peggy Noonan. Hard.

From Election 2004: Both Sides, October 11.

Boston, Mass.: Ms. Noonan,
I read somewhere than an overwhelming percentage of voters with a post-graduate degree vote Democratic. Any explanation?

Peggy Noonan: Yes, it is an interesting phenom [sic], but as you rise in American life -- as you become more successful ( Read more... )

I have been blown off for a baseball game. On TV. Also the blow off was in the rudest possible way. That sucks a lot.

Later though, I was able to insinuate that I was having a Sapphic affair with a friend while Eric was out of town in Atlantic City. So that part of the evening was definitely okay.