This was an NYU class project , so I think it's more of a cool what-if idea than something any sane person ought to want to be at either the sending or receiving end of, but still ... Corey Menscher, whose wife, Ellen, is eig…
Andrew Sullivan raises doubts about whether Sarah Palin is really as pro-Life as she claims. The premise is that to have amniocentesis is to act in a way that reflects a belief that abortion is a possibility. I note the addition…
"I very nearly missed out on becoming a mother." And I very nearly missed out on linking to this article — because I've already written about Rebecca Walker and, even then, I felt put off by the way this woman is …
I love the painter Lucien Freud, and I love his painting of Kate Moss that just sold for $7.29 million. BBC reports : Moss first suggested she pose for Freud in an article in Dazed and Confused magazine. Lucian Freud, grandson of…
I received an email today that began: Usually don't read you, since I'm rather liberal (by today's attenuated standards anyway) and have lost my tolerance for the right half of the blogsphere. But happened by your blo…
I've had a week or so of experience with the new Blogger comments function, so let me pause and assess and explain. At first, there were too many zeroes, which looked so lonely. Then, commenters started showing up--during a w…