Don't go chasing butterflies

As an artist and soon-to-be art therapist, there is NOTHING in me that wants to criticize these paintings. I want to read into each one or the obsessiveness of the subjects (I mean, 50? Really 50 dogs?). I want to take "Bush on the Couch" and write another chapter for it.

PREEMPTIVE:

Yipes. That is sad and scary all around. If alcohol was indeed involved, taking the little one out of her custody prooooooooobably a good move for now. Hope she gets the resources to get her shit together and get her baby back.

I've seen comments of people dismissing this as not a real problem, like "oh, be glad SOMEBODY likes you." This upsets me.
I lived in Asia when I was 20-21. It fucked me up. Most of the foreigner guys I knew had weird fetishes...and they'd tell me about it all the time. They were really in their element and surrounded…

Liking Asian women because you like every type of woman is one thing. Liking only Asian women is another—people try to spin it in a good light, but if you (generic you, not you you) base your preferences on that characteristic, you're defining someone primarily by their race, and that's racist.

I can't believe in the 13 gods of food Michael Polan made the list and NOT Alice Waters. She started this shit back in the day way before it was cool or you could get a book deal out of it. A real pioneer in the slow food/real food movement and she laid the groundwork for so many who are successful now.

Sarah Palin, a human angry telephone call from an apoplectic aunt whose opinion you long ago stopped valuing...

The thing I worry about with cracking down on drinking is, will it make it even harder for victims to report if they have been drinking? We already know that one of the barriers to reporting is that students (both victims, and bystanders who could report) are afraid of getting in trouble. The worry about getting a…

Yes, and that column is much more of a problem, because ostensibly the column was written by Paul himself, and not a staffer. It's easier to brush off the speeches as the work of someone else, but there's an expectation that the column is his own work. So either he put the column off on a staffer, which is a pretty…

His constituents don't care if he and his staff are lazy, ineffectual, and dishonest? They don't care if he can't handle criticism without wanting to duel everyone in the room or whine that he's going to take his game and go home, and THEN we'll be sorry? Come on, even I have a higher opinion of Kentuckians than that.

True love has died tonight.

I'm really appreciating the understatedness of Kim Gordon's Twitter tribute to Lou Reed. She ended up making a more official statement w/r/t his passing and, most fittingly, it was equally non-splashy given its heartfeltness and plain-spokenness. All very relatable, in the final analysis.