Actually, in the direct quotes from Truscott she doesn’t say, “my vagina” in reference to what is externally visible, she says, “my pussy.” Moreover, “vagina” is now synonymous with “vulva” in the vernacular, no matter how biologically inaccurate that is. So it’s great to try to be correct in your personal usage, but…

Thank you. I’m not ready to get pregnant yet, but I use cannabis to control my generalized anxiety disorder, and also my insomnia. And as a side benefit, it helps protect me from diabetic neropathy (being a type 1 diabetic). Going no anxiety meds isn’t really an option — I can’t imagine it would be good for a fetus…

Vice President Mike Pence...called for replacing Obamacare with a “system based on personal responsibility.”

Trumpcare: 24 million lose their insurance
Trumpcare 2.0: 23 million lose their insurance

Most of us are welcoming and loving most of the time, but we’ve got our psychos too, and right now they’re all coming out of the woodwork. I’m sorry this stuff is happening. It’s awful. I hope it gets better soon, I think a lot of us want to do what we can but it’s hard to know what to do besides just being a good…

My relationship with my dad is problematic, as I work with him managing, repairing, remodeling, and redeveloping the family property, and I think he has Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder. I do not have a formal diagnosis for him, but he fits the description in the DSM-5 to a tee. He can be so rigid in his…

In other words, the adult children of a malignant narcissist are acting like the adult children of a malignant narcissist that never had enough freedom to establish their own identities, and are thus doomed to repeat the cycle.

(And if you have any doubt that 45 is anything but a malignant narcissist, may I direct your…

Agreed. As much as I am against disrespectful cultural appropriation, I’m not sold on the idea of backing it by law. There are respectful ways for creative types to borrow from other cultures with respect and awareness — creators should be able to take those risks to increase the diversity of their work without…

I’m a very squeamish person, like I used to nearly faint at the sight of needles or significant blood or gore, real or fake (I’ve worked on this phobia, I’m better than I used to be). But I’m also a type 1 diabetic who has no business going vegetarian, because the higher carbohydrate diet would be potentially…

Franken/Warren 2020!

Isn’t Jared supposed to be fixing this?

I just want to strangle the newslady when she says, “Well, it was really<spelled> COVFEFE.” Who gives a crap? You’re interviewing a kid. Softball and be positive.

I’m going to be cautiously optimistic on this one. If the GOP and the Dems can get together on legislation that makes the anti-abortion crowd more comfortable without actually making it more difficult to get an abortion, I think maybe that’s a win-win, and (if it doesn’t lead to further erosion of women’s rights by…

In this case, I read the burning as an extension of the artwork itself, turning an installation into a work of performance art.

If he runs, I’d vote Franken for my next president.

I’m so glad I’m not eating soup right now...

There are concievable reasons that an “ethics waiver” might be ethical. If there was someone who could not easily divest from their business interests but had valuable insight or information in a particular field that the Administration wanted to make use of right away for the benefit of the nation, for example. Of…

You are right, the modern relationship between what I was terming a “master” artist is usually with employees now, rather than student interns as it was back in the day. And you know more about Koons’ shop than I do. Not really arguing with you, I just like geeking out about art theory and history. ;)

With objects of art (paintings, sculpture, installations), the discreet objects get bought and sold. So where does the value of the object come from? The cost of materials and labor per hour, but there’s also the element of the skill and imagination of the individual artist — the “brand”, the authenticity of that…

Because Warhol is like a friend who serves you a bowl of Campbell’s soup at his house and tells you that’s exactly what it is, while Koons is like an expensive restaurant that serves you a bowl of Campbell’s soup in a fancy, modernist dish and pretends it’s the chef’s own recipe?