Okay, folks. Let’s sit down and have a chat about privilege. Yes, again. But before we can discuss privilege, we need to discuss jargon and language specificity. Why? Because the thing that’s driving me batty about people discussing “privilege” is the use of (what at least should be) a narrowly-defined tool as a general-purpose one. A pin- ( Read more... )

I've finally figured out why the concept of "privilege," at least as it's commonly applied, irks me so much ( Read more... )

I was talking to one of my friends tonight, discussing her novel-in-progress and one of her other beta readers' reaction to it:

( cut for length and a few naughty words (gasp) )

The Department of Health and Human Services is attempting to redefine contraception as abortion. Yes, you read that right. No longer satisfied with the informed medical experts that pregnancy begins at implantation in the uterus, HHS wants to use the nebulous (and untestable) "life begins at conception" definition instead -- because that's what ( Read more... )

New (and follow-up) studies on ADD medication in Britain are saying that in the long run, medication is no better treatment than other forms of therapy.

the article can be found hereBritain jumped on the medication bandwagon after a 1999 study done in the US, showing that after one year's treatment, children with ADD responded better to medication ( Read more... )