When it comes to character naming, meaning, and the pitfalls thereof, I can only turn to the best resource on the matter, Douglas Adams, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:

By a curious  coincidence,  None  […]

My daughter turned 7 last week, and I had a flood of wistful moments remembering her as a baby. Laughing, crying, rumbling around the house in her walking stroller, rubbing food all over her high chair, sleeping […]

I’m not big on memes. I find some vaguely amusing, but for the most part, I wonder at the point. Perhaps that marks me as old-fashioned.

I guess it’s because to have strength, a meme requires placing someone […]

This is a typical cycle for the Internet. Early adopters find a site they like, that fills them with hope and joy, and then the changes start, and pretty soon, it’s no longer the place it used to be. I jumped out […]

I somehow always managed to miss being on the site when major smackdowns took place, as if I had some “Internet sense” that kept me from them. I hated coming in late to things.

It was astounding, this horrid fall from what little grace was left at Jezebel. The sound of the crash has reverberated through the Internet, and the faint echoes may not die out for some time.

There was a time […]

I think the issue here is, for all intents and purposes, that information can no longer be seen as a commodity. Books, magazines, TV shows, movies, images… the idea of information content as a static, one-off, […]

I have to say this was the most amazing read, because Stacy Schiff managed to bring alive a Cleopatra that was a great departure from her portrayal in films and television, that was more interesting than those […]

There comes a point where secularism oversteps its bounds. Freedom to worship carries with it the right to wear whatever garb your religion deems fit and which you choose to wear to honor that religious tradition. […]