Another bad day for the bigots
This is the second day in a row that I write about Pope Francis, and in a fairly positive light both times. Today, it’s just one sentence, spoken yesterday by…
Dress codes almost always suck.
Last week, a group of seventeen boys marched up and down Cardiff, Wales’s Whitchurch High School’s hallways chanting, “We want to wear shorts." They did so while wearing skirts. In…
Pope Francis’s unprecedented accessibility is admirable, but I wouldn’t call it brave.
In an effort to be more accessible to the people, Pope Francis has forgone much of the security that the Vatican recommends and that his predecessors used with regularity, including…
Men are having butt enhancement surgery in order to increase the size of their backsides. I am hesitant to refer to them as men.
The New York Times reports that there are men who are having butt enhancement surgery in an effort to increase the size of their derriere. This is not fiction. It’s…
The 1970s will never be fully understood.
More evidence that the 1970s were the strangest time in America: In 1970, Sesame Street’s Ernie’s signature song “Rubber Duckie” reached No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100. It’s absolutely…
Only cowards take covert photographs of people in order to mock them on social media
Best story of the day: An iPad-wielding Australian man has been banned from his local gym after he covertly captured photos of patrons working out and posted them to Facebook…
The post partum tummy is not a taboo in Actual Town, USA.
Tom Sykes of The Daily Beast reports on Kate Middleton’s busting of what he refers to as one of the last taboos of pregnancy: Kate Middleton stood up for new…
Something appropriate to bite
My wife is bitten so often by our son that she told me she feels like she in in an abusive relationship with him. At least we found something for…
Why am I willing to look less presentable than my female counterparts?
All may be true, or none may be true. You tell me. I have worn the grubbiest of clothes for Skype chats with book clubs, whereas my female author friends,…
Are the machine guns really necessary?
My son was sitting in the waiting room at the doctor’s office, playing with this tow truck. It looked cute, with large eyes in the windshield and a smile on…
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