“In the year of our lord 1348” you can almost taste the plague ridden corpses. Swollen, black and teeming with rats, humanity is rotting into the ground one peasant at a time. Has God forsaken...
Erykah Badu lives her life without apologies. In a White supremacist patriarchal society, such an approach to life immediately comes under scrutiny, because it threatens the hierarchical order that...
I meant to respond to Steven ING a long time ago; unfortunately, I'm a slovenly mess with zero personal accountability. My unvarying response to life’s smallest challenges is to gasp, start...
I'm grateful that gyms exist; without them, I’m sure I would have turned to messier alternatives for stress relief, such as pooping in mailboxes and shouting at small dogs. But the more time I...
About thirty years ago, there was an informal secret society in the city of Cork. Perhaps a loose net of those with a shared interest might be more accurate. This group passed the names of certain...
When is sexual harassment not sexual harassment? When it pertains to the rights of an academic to discuss the sex life of fruit bats with a colleague. Add a cry for understanding, a wail of academic...
“Before our eyes our father was taken. Before the eyes of his beloved, he was robbed of his life, and we were robbed of not just the man you think you know, but real simple, Daddy. And she of her...
1990. Football was as dead as Dillinger in England. Heysel, Hillsborough, Bradford - each appalling tragedy was another stake though the heart of the national game and a pin in the voodoo doll of...
For a number of years now, the so-called “War on Christmas” has been a favorite meme of the Christian Right in the United States. As the title of Fox commentator John Gibson's book goes,we should...
Today is Mother’s Day and restaurants and florist shops are on overdrive, trying to keep up with the consumer-driven holiday we have created to celebrate motherhood. In advertising, I have seen...