Objectify This

Right. Buckle up, because we’re about to jump on the Hate-on-Palin bandwagon. Firstly, when a vice-presidential candidate evokes bitter articles from people from her own home state, political party, political faction, and gender, who used to consider her a close friend, that’s a bad sign. Secondly, when a vice-presidential candidate stalls her way through two [...]

Couchsurfing might conjure incongruous images. I admit that my first thought was of buoyant furniture. Yet there is something seriously rad going on here — a social phenomenon that sometimes seems more like a political or philosophical statement than a mode of travel. Kind of like frisbee. Let me explain. Couchsurfing.com is a networking website [...]

In his talk at the Technology Entertainment Design Conference in Monterey, California, Sir Ken Robinson contends that schools kill creativity. In order to educate our children, we need to prepare them for the future, duh. Robinson is offering a perspective on creativity as something learned, or rather unlearned. To me, this is at least as [...]

What’s this? I’ve heard that the Right has discovered a new kind of discrimination that occurs… wait, wait, this is just coming in… against women, of all people. That’s right, folks, there is some kind of “double standard” being employed, as we speak, that makes women less free than their fellow citizens. But the good [...]

Well, I have to admit it: I’m kinda angry. Or to put it less originally, MY VAGINA’S ANGRY! “Whoa,” you are saying as you back out of the room, “easy there, cowgirl.” I mean, really, that’s a joke: I feel my anger in my brain — you know, that pea-sized appendage. That’s also where I [...]