With the plastic bag ban, I need these, not a teeny tiny purse. Tuesday is the new Monday, as in, I am dragging into the daylight and can’t find my way to thoughts and prayers or anything. Fortunately, there are at least two pretty great things on the internet this morning. The First Thing This is pretty wonderful. If you have free articles left at the New York Times you should read it, or maybe it’s a new month and... Read more
It’s a new month and also Monday, so to celebrate (just kidding, there’s no celebration) we did a podcast about a bad meme, a bad tweet, Matt’s hobby horse, and what we think about Lent (vaguely think about Lent, not by any means a real discussion of Lent.) If it doesn’t make your Monday brighter, I don’t know what will–probably some other podcast. You could totally go check out other podcasts too! Let’s see, this last week was nuts for... Read more
I finally finished all the available Netflix episodes of The Good Place last week, months after I started them. Thought the whole thing was pretty clever and look forward to the final season. What I liked best, besides Janet, was the fairly honest attempt to follow the basic question of what happens next to its logical conclusion, albeit with a fitting amount of rollicking good humor. The trouble is, if there is a good place and a bad place (going... Read more
I’m over at Stand Firm this morning, go check it out! ******************************************************************************************************** I finally went and had a look at that CT Polyamory article that’s been making its way around twitter the last week. In spite of its spawning a lot of pretty funny jokes, I didn’t think it would be that objectionable, and so didn’t actually read past the first paragraph. I mean, technically I don’t even have time to be on the internet at all, so sue me. But then... Read more
Well, my children have given me the worst cold and it’s snowing, like really snowing, so it looks like it is Lent after all. But at least Matt sent me this. It’s so great. Let’s go through it line by line. It’s called #OKBoomer: 10 Signs Your Weekend Services Aren’t Designed for the Next Generation. I guess they heard Matt complaining about not being able to go to the “Tape” store and decided to show him how wrong he is.... Read more
In the spirit of taking words and using them however I want, I will now appropriate and recast “Self-Care” for my own purposes, scooping out its more usual meaning and pouring in my own, like a delicious drizzle of cream over un petit pot de Chocolat–one that you probably shouldn’t be thinking about, because you probably just gave it up. Like many people approaching the first day of Lent, I often examine my life and my conscience, trying to think... Read more
The First Thing I did it. I wrote a little letter complaining about the use of the word “gift” as the verb instead of the noun. Here it is. Dear Audible, I (and my whole family) are so grateful for audible and all you do. THANK YOU. I would like to make a formal request that when you invite audible users to give audible credits or books as gifts, you revert back to the use of ‘give’ as the verb,... Read more
Well, it seems global climate change has finally come to Binghamton in the shape of an unseasonably warm day. Trying to feel the doom about it, but, frankly, failing. Be that as it may, we’ve done the usual podcast wherein we talk about an oldish Huffpo marriage article, that Sophie Lewis person, Paula White, Robert Jeffress’ Gnosticism, and, most importantly, how much Matt misses going the the “tape store,” as in, that place where you could go buy music on... Read more
This is a pretty interesting piece. Bit long and rather adoring. Probably came across my feed because of the David Brooks thing. This person, Sophie Lewis, apparently on the rise for having published a book last year, believes in something called Full Surrogacy, that is, the abolishment of the nuclear family: When Lewis demands “full surrogacy now,” she isn’t talking about commercial surrogacy, or ”Surrogacy™,” as she puts it. Instead, she uses the surrogacy industry to build the argument that all... Read more
It’s Friday so: One Someone in my blog comments yesterday accused me of anti-Semitism. I had no idea whence such an accusation could arise, so I googled around and discovered that Mr. Sanders is Jewish. I wouldn’t have known that because I never do know that kind of thing. I have often embarrassed myself by not knowing that someone was of that particular ethnicity. Everyone else knew, and I didn’t know, because that is the kind of cultural knowledge that... Read more
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