Series five of Downton Abbey premiered in the UK on Sunday night, which normally would have had ISPs across the US humming as people furtively downloaded the hit British drama. Yet, something curious...
Israel tends to bombard Gaza a little extra every couple of years, making siege trendy—literally. The exercise in genocide that is “Operation Protective Edge” had more than an edge on Gaza,...
The first hour of the workday when you’re not quite awake yet: Having to deal with the one person in the office who’s a total “morning person” during that first hour (or at any time in the...
“Guardians of the Galaxy” is being billed as a “different” kind of Marvel movie. In many ways, that’s true: It takes place in a distant part of the galaxy, and a fictional reality that’s...
A great new tumblr, pairing pictures of inspiring progressive female politicians like Hillary Clinton, Wendy Davis and Elizabeth Warren with Beyonce lyrics. Also featuring are Supreme Court...
In watching Game of Thrones and falling in love with the worldbuilding, the characters, and the stories, there’s one thing that’s inescapable: the misogyny. This is not just a violent, brutal...
“Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.” (Albert Camus) Karen Joy Fowler is a writer that I thought I had not encountered before reading her most recent novel, We Are All...
Realizing that you’ve accidentally missed the episode: Attempting to find it on-demand as part of your cable package, then having it not work due to a connectivity error: Going online to distract...
Three Diana Wynne Jones books have been published since the author’s death in 2011, and I have bought each and mourned a little anew. There’s something particularly final, though, about The...
As a veteran protestor in the US and abroad who started out as a pacifist and later marched with the Black Blok and other groups that argue violence is sometimes necessary in defense of our freedoms,...
