I haven't written much about health care reform because it's been really hard for me to watch and talk about.   I haven't even done the whole "repost if you support health care reform" thing on facebook because I didn't want to get into it with my family.

I bitch about my family a lot here, because here is where I feel safe doing so.  But you need ( Read more... )

There has been a lot of talk about jury nullification regarding Peter Watts conviction.

The first thing that I want to say is that I completely agree with truepenny . (Plus some added stuff floating around in my head about how, you know, this is essentially what is going on in a lot of rape trials, and what happened a lot with lynching trials, so while I am ( Read more... )

I was rereading this excellent essay today, and it jogged a distant memory I had of arguing with my younger brother about the origin of the codename "Deepthroat" - back when we were both teens. I had recently read an essay by Steinem in which she off-handedly talked about what term meant as well as, of course, the x-rated movie of the same name ( Read more... )