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August 2018

August 19, 2018

A Battle With Baphomet

Couldn’t help clicking on this clearly baiting headline, Satanic Temple Statue Unveiled at the Arkansas...

August 09, 2018

An Essential Guide For Not Ruining Your Church

Ah well, the tragic drama at Willow Creek continues to unfold, the rain is threatening...

July 2018

July 24, 2018

How To Ruin Everything In Two Easy Steps

Was well rewarded in my internet search this morning by first this, and then this....

June 2018

June 12, 2018

International House of Confusion

There are a lot of stupid things going on in the world this morning, but...

June 06, 2018

The Search for the Perfect Purse

One thing about me drives my husband crazy. It isn’t my fretting desire to keep...

May 2018

May 29, 2018

While You’re At It Marry Yourself

I spent the weekend trying to avoid reading anything about Ireland, or about all those...

May 22, 2018

The Social Gospel Is Unkind

This is a fascinating article. I haven’t read it with perfect attention, so in no...

May 15, 2018

Trampling Down The Voice That Breathed O’er Eden

It is Tuesday, and in a matter of hundreds of hours there will be a...

May 09, 2018

The Met Gala and the Attorney General

I am of a variety of schizophrenic minds about the Met Gala. Spent valuable time...

May 02, 2018

Social Media Cannot Possibly Be Making Me Lonely

This alarming study was making its way around the inter-tubes of the web yesterday. I...

May 01, 2018

Don’t Call Your Baby A “Baby”

I received this ridiculous gorgeous gem from a friend--it's not very long. The Guardian reports*...

April 2018

April 25, 2018

Compassion and Burnt Soubise

Here is a glowing piece of reportage about Melania Trump's organizing her (and of course...

April 19, 2018

Still Not Commenting On The Snow

Yeah, it is snowing. I'm not even kidding. But as I said yesterday, I don't...

April 10, 2018

Snow, Facebook, and the Oldest Man: The Winter of my Discontent

Feel, in the spirit of the whole country being covered in snow, except for the...

April 05, 2018

Death is Bad

It is Easter week, of course, and so I should be wrapped up in a...

March 2018

March 29, 2018

Planned Parenthood Does Not Need A Disney Princess

It seems Planned Parenthood is feeling on the down and outs and wishes there could...

March 25, 2018

Death and Life on Palm Sunday

I've been mulling over one of those age-old questions for the last 24 hours. An...

March 22, 2018

How Am I To Read The News?

Mostly I am very happy to rely on the work of others for the finding...

March 10, 2018

Evangelicals, Racism, and the Sunday Morning Sermon

Having failed in any attempt to read anything but the internet all week, I thought...

March 09, 2018

Caitlyn Jenner Mansplains

Well, International Women's Day is over, but I still have something to complain about. Last...

March 08, 2018

3 Things on International Women’s Day

It's Thursday, and International Women's Day, my Favorite! Here are Three Funny Things for you...

March 06, 2018

Rachael Denhollander and SGM

Spent a tense forty five minutes over the weekend, perched uncomfortably on the couch, devouring...

February 2018

February 21, 2018

Science Is The Best

[What are you going to do? Actually go to the gym?] Well, this is shocking....

February 20, 2018

Will Tim Tebow Come To Binghamton?

[This is how comfortable I need to be if I'm going to have to watch...

February 08, 2018

Three Things On Thursday

Thing One Sports Illustrated is getting in on the #metoo movement by writing words on...

January 2018

January 31, 2018

In Which I Watch The State Of The Union, With Children

Was forced by the patriarchy to watch the State of the Union, even though it...

January 25, 2018

Courage in the Courtroom

In Rachael Denhollander's face I am compelled to see a modern, beautiful Tamar, tearing her...

January 18, 2018

Are Christians Really Sex Obsessed?

“Why Are Christians So Sex Obsessed?” The rejoinder to which would be, "Look at yourself...

January 16, 2018

Coffee, Sex, and Onions

This is a great article. And ironically, explicitly says what Ansari accidentally, and in muted...

January 12, 2018

7 Fascinating Takes

[You can't have coffee here unless you go to Africa.] It's Friday and it's raining,...