this is an even better piece that looks very carefully at every player in the story:

It’s one of the oldest problems in the book for purportedly democratic governments: Israel would like to claim the land they captured in their wars with their neighbors openly by right of conquest, but they also don’t want to treat the people that were living there, and are now under their control, like citizens of…

This looks so bloody good.

Obviously I don’t know the details of her initial contract, but the amount she was paid for the work — which was to go to the Golden Globes and do stuff for them there — has absolutely no bearing on whether or not they can also use her likeness for other purposes.

I know $90k for a night of work sounds like a lot (and…

Oh man, thank you for providing me with my entertainment for the night. I love fandom wank. 

r/relationships would cease to be able to give advice if that were the case.

My friend died of cancer in 2016, leaving behind a 14 year old daughter and 5 year old son*. When she was dying everyone tried to stay positive, but more than one person in our circle said something like “If you die, your daughter’s college essay will write itself.” She had been a college English professor and she…

When I was working as a writing tutor at a college, this sort of writing was very encouraged. Students were often assigned to write essays about overcoming personal hardships. It was frustrating for the students who felt they had never faced much in the way of hardships. A Black student once had an assignment to write…

Prolly too much to ask of this blog, but if you’re going to report on this (report = repost/summarize and discuss a report), why not acknowledge the distinctness or complexity of anti-trans harassment by radical feminists (vs. by bog-standard trans-and-homophobic cis/hetero people)? You describe the incident, then…

I just finished watching Sex Ed and now desperately want to see Emma Thompson play Gillian Anderson’s mom in something (bc Gillian reminded me of her at times). Universe - make that happen!

Yeah, Farrakhan isn’t like “Israel is bad.” he’s like “Jews are making the frogs gay.” It should be pretty easy to renounce.

I, too, am sick of the purity tests all liberals have to live up to now, BUT antisemitism (yes, I believe it’s antisemitism) is a line I’m willing to draw for myself to say I cannot support something. I am Jewish. I have been following this very closely as someone who wants to march and take part. I feel like they…

I participated in my local women’s march two years ago but it was still bullshit.

“Louis Farrakhan has done some good things for Black prisoners. However, we unequivocally and completely reject his racist and absurd remarks about Jewish people.”

Having watched someone pass away from multiple organ failure due to T.S.S., any piece written calling attention to anything that can be done to help prevent or shine a light on warning signs, I’m eternally grateful for. Educated information versus some celebrity with her “magic vagina rock” gives some meaning to her…

And the thing is THIS is actually kind of sexy. I would take this over the half hard dick pics I get, any day of the week. 

I recently had a stranger on the street tell me to smile when I was literally on my way into a children’s hospital. I really wanted to stop and explain to him all of the ways that I had nothing to smile about at that moment, seeing as I was on my way to see about a sick child.

I am short, grey-haired, and about to turn 54. I am therefore completely invisible. Even the weirdos and the drunks ignore me now because there’s no mileage in trying to score a cheap laugh by trying to scare a woman over 50: apparently I’m scarier than they are, just by dint of date of birth.

Every time I read/ hear about the opioid crisis, I think I die a little inside. I know the thesis of this piece is that younger victims are being claimed, and I understand that is a horror in its own right. Without doxxing myself, I'll share this: I'm a high school teacher, and I've been at the same school since 1996.…