“Think unsexy thoughts, think unsexy thoughts. . . ” – Mindy Simmons On Thursdays nytimes.com puts up a preview of the stories that will be in the Sunday magazine. Last Thursday, “What Do Women Want?“, an article by Daniel Bergner about sexual research, went up accompanied by this rather grandiose subtitle: A postfeminist generation of [...]
Archive for January 2009
Live Nude Girls
Putting Liberty Back to Work
“We’d like to dedicate this next number to a very special woman. She’s a hundred years old and she weighs over two hundred . . . tons.” – Homer Simpson “This enormous woman will devour us all!” – Panicky Idiot Buried in the local section of yesterday’s New York Times was a story about newly [...]
Good Morning, and Good Luck
Rehabilitation Preemption and a Lifetime of Entertainment
The Old In and Out
“Come on, you never went on a date with a guy just ’cause you were hungry?” – Bender/Coilette “Well, I . . . uh . . . I thought I might like him on a full stomach.” – Leela For the past year Susannah Breslin has been running two on-line projects, Letters from Johns and [...]
A Popular Misconception
“Who’s having butt sex?” – Chef Since California passed Proposition 8 two months ago there has been an enormous and acrimonious backlash. The most publicized parts of this backlash have occurred around people who supported 8, usually for religious reasons, but who also have a lot of homosexual people in their lives. Less than two [...]
Icebergs Ahead
“Wiggum, you glorified night watchman, let her go!” – Mayor Quimby “But, she broke the law.” – Chief Wiggum “Thanks for the civics lesson! Now listen to me. If Marge Simpson goes to jail I can kiss the chick vote goodbye!” – Mayor Quimby There is no longer any reasonable doubt that numerous government officials, [...]
