“IF YOU WANT YOUR FAMILY RELEASED, TURN YOURSELF IN.” And more fiery still, here. You guys know what I think. Read more

WHAT’S A GIRL LIKE YOU DOING IN A NICE PLACE LIKE THIS? Here are some of the best search requests that brought you strange, sick people to my strange, sick blog. Roughly in order of my preference, from least funny to funniest. Not all of them were initially Google searches. contemporary art sucks gobs in qatar passive victims malignant dream cities circumstance jumbo rat reproductive cycle Deism is wrong high heels total slavery immigration philip roth sleeping pill stare decisis... Read more

“WHAT MARRIAGE IS FOR.” Read more

ANN COULTER’S LIVING. Harsh but so funny. Read more

“Ecuador’s recent upheaval was intensely anti-market and anti-globalization. It was also an explicitly Amerindian-based movement, led by the National Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie), and deeply, angrily ethnic in its mobilizing rhetoric. ‘The shamans say change is coming,’ thundered Fernando Villavicencio, one of Conaie’s leaders. ‘They say we are entering the age of the condor; they say that the Red Warrior has returned!'” —World on Fire; note that I am not endorsing Chua’s analysis until I know at... Read more

FAIR NEW HAVEN: That’s where I’m heading in a few hours. Expect no posting ’til Monday…. Here’s a worthwhile if rambly post from an Oxblogger about American-ness and a sense of “mission.” I speculated about this in connection w/immigration here. Read more

HULKING AMBITIONS… PUNY MOVIE. So I saw “The Hulk” (or is it just “Hulk,” a la “Madonna”?) yesterday. Some scattered thoughts. 1) It was worth it for me, because I’m really interested in all the nifty directorial tricks Ang Lee came up with. And because I paid matinee price. 2) Very much not recommended for people uninterested in film technique. 3) Did anyone at all understand the ending? Not the very end–the bit with the electricity. Seriously, that may have... Read more

ARE CONSERVATIVES NUTS? If you read the Yale Free Press, you already know the answer, courtesy of one of the paper’s funniest back-page ads. Read more

HEY, NEAT, I’M LISTED ON THE MS. MAGAZINE BLOGROLL. If you came here from there, please check out my post “Can there be a decent feminism?” It’s my main statement on Ms-ish stuff. Read more

SHOW US YOUR PAPERS! Important and infuriating story from the San Francisco Bay Guardian (yeah, I know, but this really is important): “When a man who faces certain torture in his home country is faced with deportation using evidence he can’t see and facing general allegations of assistance to a group that isn’t even now on the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations…” Any comments from Ginger Stampley? Who do we get in touch with about this stuff? I’m... Read more