Perhaps our resident Kremlinologist, Nathan, can make some sense out of this video. Or, I mean, say something besides: Fucking awesome! If only Sasha weren’t too heavy for me to lift (what with my bad back, gimpy ankle, and swollen wrist), I’d be twirling her around in the air like this woman:
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Franzenfreude Redux, or how my writing career will fail
Some months back I wrote a post about how the frenzied reaction to Jonathan Franzen’s book, Freedom, had been interpreted by some as sexist. I felt there was some merit to the notion that Franzen’s work is interpreted as serious literature because he is a man, and a comparable novel by a female writer would …
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It’s the Little Things
From my friend Katherine GB: news that the U.S. Passport Agency is now changing its application for minors to use the words ‘parent’ and ‘parent’, instead of ‘mother’ and ‘father’. This is the kind of thing that conservatives HATE (yes, yet another thing), because it would seem to deny that there is such a thing …
Evolution, What Have Ye Wrought?
Long ago, in our distant, pre-Homo erectus past, when we were all just chimpanzees, or whatever chimpanzees were before they were officially chimpanzees, we didn’t have much. Dirt, seeds, nuts, leaves, and rocks. And, if you were a lucky young female chimp, you had a stick—a stick that (says Science) you carried around as if …