The moving force we likely know, but is not worthy of our love

The universe, according to Dawkins, was put together randomly--not out of love, or hate, or volition, or disinterest. We find this disconcerting, because we are meaning-craving human beings. What I find strange is that Dawkins isn't more… Read full post »

Looks like tomorrow Obama will be increasing troop levels. To a large extent, this will be a deciding day for Salon. Most times when criticism has been made of Obama here, it has been hedged by making him seem the good king surrounded by poison-issuing advisors. So we have often enough… Read full post »

Let me be clear: I think those are all perfectly reasonable questions. It's just that I think they're perfectly reasonable questions to ask about the objectification of Megan Fox, and every other Action Movie Girlfriend in history, as well. Treating a man just as poorly as women have long been treate… Read full post »

Thing is, that derision is not only about Park Slope, and it's not only about strollers, which have somehow become synecdoche for the perceived ills of indulgent parenting everywhere. And it's not only about "parenting," either. No, I am telling you, it's about mothers. (White mothers, generally, and… Read full post »

                                                                   annethelibrarian

Literary awards are more tha… Read full post »

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 Freud is not my co-pilot

When Max is asked in the film what is the cure for loneliness, he responds that "a little loneli… Read full post »

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So he's come.  Prince Charles, the man who, against my will, I had to p… Read full post »

A book finds same-sex couples produce perfectly healthy offspring. Is this the best argument for marriage equality? (Tracy Clark-Flory, “Gay marriage:  Good for the  kids?,” Salon, 9 Nov. 2009)

In Canada, some on the left are beginning to favor imagining "their" constit… Read full post »

Civil liberties are never in question unless they are exercised in a way that the majority of the population disagrees with -- and that's when they need to be defended.  That became evident Friday, when anti-Olympics protesters in Victoria succeeded in blocking a small portion of the Olympic tor/… Read full post »

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Too suave for Bush, who fit so well… Read full post »

Right now he's on the trail of others, but he's got his sights on you.  

Re:  Rush Limbaugh is facing the consequences of the buffoonish, offensive cartoon persona that’s made him a gazillionaire: The controversy-averse brotherhood of NFL owners harrumphed disapprov/… Read full post »

Re:  Want Cheap Tuition? Try Yukon College

Classes are small, and now it's a key outpost of climate change study.

It seems an unlikely place for a college, serving a territory the size of Sweden and with a population of only 35,000. But Yukon College has made… Read full post »

Re:  The number one rule of American politics:  the greatest, most insatiable need of the standard conservative is to turn themselves into oppressed little victims.  In The Daily Beast today, Tucker Carlson devotes his entire column to complaining that Obama is "bul/… Read full post »

Re:  News flash! Climate change is not only a fraud and a hoax, but it is a sinister conspiracy of the "left" to create an unelected eco-dictatorship that spans the globe. Millions of the world’s poorest will die, and civilization as we know it will perish unless we stop this plot/… Read full post »

Re:  On Saturday, Tyler Perry, who executive produced the Oscar-buzzed forthcoming movie "Precious," spoke on his Web site of being something else -- a survivor of physical and sexual abuse.  [. . .] On his Web site this weekend he wrote about the mother of a childhood/… Read full post »

Re:  Half a year after brutalizing his then-girlfriend -- by hitting, choking, biting and threatening to kill her -- Chris Brown is still following the script of domestic abusers everywhere. He loves her, he really does, it was totally unlike him and he promises to never ever do it again. That's… Read full post »

— The Search for a Way of Being —

Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner

By Patrick McEvoy-Halston

November 2001

Ridley Scott has recently told us that Decker, from Blade Runner, is in fact a replicant.  There are several reasons… Read full post »

Re:  The first time somebody wanted to be my fag hag, it was the year 2000, I was 16 years old, and I was sitting in the back of a high school physics class. A fun South Asian girl to whom I'd recently admitted I was a "flaming homosexual" was… Read full post »

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 re:  God bless Barney Frank. His outburst at a "town hell" protester who accused him and Obama… Read full post »

re:  “Blogger” confuses us today because we’ve conflated two different meanings of “blogging.” There is the formal definition: personal website, reverse chronological order, lots of links. Then there is what I would call the ideological definition: a bundle o… Read full post »

Richard Gingras--CEO of Salon--is laying off personel:  

 "For several months we have been working on a redesign of our product, that we will launch this fall, and also a redesign of our underlying systems. We are moving away from a very traditional magazine production… Read full post »

RE:  A country of human self-doubt birthing a nation of superhuman hubris -- it’s not the paradox it seems. After all, the popular culture sustaining this oxymoronic reality revolves around exalting the impossibly gifted virtuoso, the against-all-odds champion, the Moun… Read full post »

re:  “It wasn't long after John Hughes died that online commenters began to poke holes in his legacy: There was, of course, the unforgivable issue of Long Duk Dong, but even on Broadsheet, letter writers brought up a different dark moment from "Sixteen Candles." As commenter… Read full post »