Month: October 2006

One of my pet peeves is when people are not logical. Another is when a minority of people (often manifesting itself in the form of shrill activists and ideologues) claims the right to speak for the majority. In this country, such shrill minorities often try to claim that they are “the base.” I don’t want…

Another school shooting — this one at an Amish school in Pennsylvania. The earlier report didn’t identify the shooter, but this one does. Apparently he singled out girls, tied them up and killed them: The shooter, identified as Charles Roberts IV, 32, sent the male students and some adult females out of the school, bound…

I love it. For my sarcastic ridicule of Michael Marcavage (an offense I’ve repeated many times, BTW), I’m being called a “queer hating site.” I’m hoping this is satire. (What, I should be hoping it isn’t?) MORE: For readers who aren’t interested in following links, Marcavage is a local (Philadelphia area) antigay bigot, who thinks…

In today’s Inquirer, Faye Flam takes a fascinating look at incest, hermaphrodism, and shrimp. She also factors in the movie “Deliverance”: Without the males, the shrimp are stuck mating with themselves, says Weeks, and that’s a problem. “That’s often associated with something called inbreeding depression which is, basically… have you seen Deliverance?” (In the classic…

I’m a bit confused by the huge fuss over the Foley scandal, because while what he did (sexually suggestive flirting with a page) was inappropriate, this jerk was caught and he resigned. While Foley’s conduct was a reprehensible breach of the public trust, what people seem to be forgetting is that nothing illegal happened. The…

An animal rights activist gathering signatures wore a T-shirt that caught my eye. I asked a friend what on earth could be meant by the phrase “NICE GIRLS FAKE IT,” and a spirited discussion ensued, as the word “nice” is subject to many interpretations — especially in the context of sexual sincerity. Of course, we…

I’ve been on the road so much this weekend that I’ve barely had time to sit down at the computer, and now I have about two minutes before I run out again. While on the road, I managed to snap a photo of the cause of one of the usual long delays — a car…