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Except watching my new favorite obsession: Rifftrax. It's the old Mystery Science Theater 3000 gang but commenting on current movies. ...

Sorry with the delayed Friday Cat Blogging folks, although it technically still is Friday. Although I called this one "the Lovers"...

Over the holidays there was a little noticed story published about recently declassified papers showing that in July 1950, only a few days a...

RH Reality Check has a very personal essay by Anna Clark about her switch from calling herself pro-life to pro-choice. What if I told you t...

The New York Times has a profile of Girls Gone Wild Creator Joe Francis and all his legal troubles. It’s basically a portrait of a person ...

I've seen videos of other cats doing this, but until a few months ago I never suspect Al was one of those cats you could spin into a fuz...

Sorry about the lack of updates. My office is putting on a training conference this week to help women break into the opinion-based media an...

Via Pandagon , I found this link to a fascinating project where families pose with one week’s worth of food. I think Amanda pretty much hit...

One would think someone being scrunitized, perhaps unfairly , for his religion wouldn't want to pitch some stones too close to his nice ...

I’m really glad that The Washington Post’s editorial board is supportive of changing the crack cocaine sentencing guidelines to match thos...

Taking the moment to post an early Friday Cat Blogging. And might I recommend substituting cat for your usual cooked turkey? (Btw, that was ...

Bitch Ph. D has a post talking about the book, The Girls Who Went Away , which is about the (mostly white) women from the 40s-60s who got p...

Kiefer, can I call you Kief? I know you and I have had our disagreements, mostly about the fact that I think your show, 24 , is hurting Amer...

It’s one sentence in the Washington Post story on the potential change in federal sentencing guidelines for possession of crack cocaine. Th...

Al the deaf cat had some visitors today and, as usual, everyone loves him. Let me assure my readers he's not simply submitting to all th...

To any of my friends who've asked me about feminism lately I give you this bit of awesomeness (hat tip Feministing ). My only quibble i...

Slate has a cutesy article, “An Economist Goes to a Bar…And solves the mysteries of dating” which the basis is that the author, Ray Fisman,...

I’m formally closing the dialogues with Jim in Cleveland partially because the action has moved back to the comments in the adoption threa...

This week's Friday Cat Blogging is sponsored by Tide, because if you are going to spend your friday night doing laundry its good to have...

I’m taking this out of comments because I think it’s interesting to explore on its own. The problem with relying on adoption to “solve” th...