Likely to be of interest to some of my peeps: Who Invented Chaplin's Tramp?Normand was an inventor of the movie star, the first woman allowed to be both sexy and funny. She was a high diver, a bareback rider, a race car driver, and a flapper a decade before flappers. Photoplay called her "a kiss that explodes in a laugh, cherry bonbons in a clown's ( Read more... )

You may have heard about the recent "Richard Dawkins doesn't get it" kerfuffle*. I wasn't going to write anything about it, but I think it's interesting that a certain piece of context is getting dropped from the story.

This is how it was described on Bad Astronomy in a post titled Richard Dawkins and Male Privilege:Here’s what happened, boiled ( Read more... )