Observe this NYT Magazine interview with editor Bonnie Fuller. Apparently Fuller has written book titled “The Joys of Much Too Much.” She is pitching it as a defense of women who want to have both a great family and a great job. She’s going to reassure us that it’s okay to want it all, and […]
Are you having a Health Problem? Perhaps you should, very quickly, sign up for CIGNA Healthcare. They have a very special health information library, which is on the electric telephone for those of you who do not have an Internet in the home. Simply use the handy reference book (provided to CIGNA members […]
Today’s Gawker reveals the existence of a public list of all the gay people in the world. Who’s on it, you ask? Well, there’s
Quentin Crisp, British actor, author, and wit
and
Giacomo Casanova, Italian seducer - bon vivant
and
Sir Harold Acton, British art writer, aesthete
These examples lend weight to the long-held hypothesis that if you enjoy being […]
Are you curious about a lady’s breasts, but too polite to ask? Try Amazon’s new feature:
Visit Amazon to search inside her lingerie drawer, her medicine cabinet, even her brain!
My story got nominated for a National Magazine Award.
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In December 2002, [Saddam Hussein] told his top commanders that Iraq did not possess unconventional arms, like nuclear, biological or chemical weapons, according to the Iraq Survey Group, a task force established by the C.I.A. to investigate what happened to Iraq’s weapons programs. Mr. Hussein wanted his officers to know they could not rely on […]
“There’s enough evil and caprice to always assure there will be disabilities,” says Laurie Zoloth, director of the Center for Bioethics, Science and Society at Northwestern University. “But could there be fewer? When people worry about curing too many things, I’m always glad that bioethics wasn’t around when people were thinking about infectious diseases or […]
A men’s rights group wants to give fathers the option to deny child support in the case of an unintended pregnancy. the plaintiff in their lawsuit, Matt Dubay, was assured by his girlfriend that a medical condition made her infertile. Then she got pregnant, and now he has to pay child support.
Many men tell stories […]
The New York Times review of campy musical “Grey Gardens” appears with this ad:
Because the bitch had it coming, probably.
I don’t usually blog on fashion, but then fashion doesn’t usually knock me flat the way this did:
According to Stephanie Rosenbloom at NYT, this woven mask and matching dress by Viktor & Rolf is an example of an emerging trend of obscuring model’s faces. Some fashion commentators think the trend is misogynistic. But I can’t […]