We Failed Rehtaeh Parsons
[Trigger warning for discussion of rape and suicide] Here we are again.
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Lunchtime Poll 4/9/13: Taxes
April 15th approaches, which is the deadline for U.S. residents to file our taxes.
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This Open Thread Is Dedicated To Alyssa Edwards
Alyssa Edwards? Who? Children, gather round this open thread, like little cub scouts here to learn-e-ded.
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Science News: 4/9/13
Between three oil spills, a chemical spill, melting glaciers, and a sexist obituary in the New York Times, the news is on notice this week. Hopefully the cool news will outweigh the infuriating! If nothing else, I found a few headlines and stories guaranteed to make you giggle like a 12-year-old.
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Recap: RuPaul’s Drag Race, Episode 5.10, “I Don’t Know But I’ve Been Told, Drag Queens Always Tuck and Fold!”
There are only five drag queens left on RuPaul’s Drag Race, and as Alaska put it, “It’s turned quickly from Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants to Sisterhood of I’m Going to Kill You So I Can Win.” It’s getting ugly in there, kids! And that’s the best part!
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How About We All STFU?
Don’t you hate it when someone you think is completely awesome does something that makes you really upset? Yesterday, our friend Dustin over at Pajiba posted a rant about the complaints that people without children make about parents and/or children. And although I think we’re meant to view the post as tongue-in-cheek, it was still way harsh, Tai.
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We Try It!: Self-Publishing
About a month before I got my master’s degree, I was chatting with one of my professors about the topic I’d picked for my final research paper and joked that I’d had to narrow my scope pretty severely because I found out that my original topic was so broad that “I could write a book on it.” He said, “Why …
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Weekly Anime Review
The spring season has started! So I get to watch two new shows along with Chihayafuru: Majestic Prince and Shingeki no Kyojin. Majestic Prince is a space-based mecha show with teenagers, pretty formulaic in its genre, but it might be a deconstruction which could make it awesome. Time will tell. Shingeki no Kyojin is a horror/fantasy action show based on …
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Two Questions about The West Wing: “100,000 Airplanes” and “The Two Bartlets”
We’re in the meaty middle of Season Three, readers. Let’s see what happens after Bartlet’s censure after the cut.
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30 Years of Music: 2002
2002 was a strange year, musically, in that there was not a lot of music that really excited me at the time. Many of the songs featured this week are those I’ve discovered in retrospect, with a fair number of songs coming from a music collection other than my own. Still, many of my usual favorites manage to sneak their …
Read MoreLunchtime Poll: Rites of Spring
It’s official by the calendar, if not the weather: spring is here.
Read MoreThis Open Thread is Trading Places
Once upon a time, you could talk about racism and terrible rich people in a funny way.
Read MoreNew Show Recap: Project Runway, Episode 11.11, “You Call This on My Own?”
We have our top five! And they have to report to the runway right away, as Heidi and Tim point out the designers meet with them to get restructured. So they are being restructured.
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Eat Me: Bacon and Leek Quiche
These quiches are so delicious, you’ll want to eat them all the time.
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La Dame aux Camelias: The Tragedy of Marie Duplessis
The story has captured many hearts and minds for over a hundred years, and it has almost become a part of our collective consciousness. It’s La Dame aux Camelias, or Camille, by Alexandre Dumas, which chronicles the doomed love affair between a young Frenchman, Armand Duval, and a dying courtesan, Marguerite Gautier. The novel has inspired a play, an opera, a ballet, …
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