I agree. It's way more interesting than the Phillips essay.

When I was in Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm, the Saudi government put up a cultural tent in our area, and actually made the specific argument that they did, in fact, protect women’s rights better than the West.

I really wish I had kept that pamphlet, or at least had been smart enough to take a picture of it.

Actually, they DO have to pretend they are trying to protect women. But notice how Hawkins slips at first when she writes about the Supreme Court breaking their hearts by ruling against clinic "restrictions." She subsequently deploys the "protecting women" rhetoric.

Years ago, Danny DeVito went on one of the morning talk shows after drinking all night with George Clooney, and totally owned up to his level of intoxication.

Is the level of internet outrage really so low? Yes.

For me, the experience of live hockey really depends on how close to the action you are. When you’re up in the nosebleed seats, like I was most of the time when I lived in Texas and went to Stars games from time to time, you lose out on a lot. When you’re close to the action, it quickly becomes a lot more exciting.

This…

I didn’t have too many problems with men harassing my ex-wife while I was in her presence, nor do I have any with my current GF. I like to think it’s because I can look mean as fuck, my ex-wife actually is (I think I mentioned on Kinja, the police that arrested her remember her as the most difficult suspect they’ve…

You wouldn't know by looking at my son that his mother is black (w/me being white) but it's a little more obvious with our daughter,

I am a male victim of domestic abuse, for which my wife was arrested, resisted arrest and had to be tasered. One of the officers remarked she was the most difficult suspect she's ever dealt with. The scary thing is no alcohol or drugs were involved, and she fits the "takes no responsibility, she's the hero" role to a…

Running to Bermuda in a hamster ball has been added to my list as an entirely new level of stupid.

“Yeah, gotta agree. How did these nut jobs suddenly become so powerful?”

“Vote Vote Vote Vote in local elections, people!”

It would be a stupid business move for Facebook to censor or try to manipulate any political speech, but FB IS a private space, so 1st Amendment only applies to the extent it chooses to apply the principle.

I did the Model UN in college in a regional version in California. Mostly because I was trying to do (unsuccessfully, alas) a certain female delegate representing South Korea.

When I was in college, I went to a reading by Joyce Carol Oates, and talks by Allen Ginsberg, and the be all and end all of literary criticism of that era: Jacques Derrida.

I’m really tempted to thunder, “The hyper-sensitive outrage of this era is becoming tedious,” but that’s just another variation of “Get off my…

Well, as a divorced 45-year-old father of two young children, I went on OKC, put up an honest profile that evoked at least a couple giggles and grins from a handful of women, chatted with some, went out on dates with two, and then stumbled across a divorced mother of two around my age... and now we are both done with…