Now that I’ve pretty much retired from this blog, I can write a blog about another passion of mine: reversed audio and video. Play It Backwards sdrawkcaB tI yalP will let you experience the subliminal, satanic fun of songs and video clips played...

...I feel a need to make some amends to improve this blog’s feminist karma before I retire from it. Four years ago today, I started it by posting “Please don’t assume I’m a pig.” In retrospect, I sometimes question that thesis.For example, I...

For the past few weeks in particular, I’ve been grateful that my attitude toward drugs resembles Ram Dass’ more than Dr. Drew’s. If Pinsky doesn’t believe in letting people decide for themselves whether marijuana can help them, he surely...

Thanks to Salon.com’s Broadsheet, I’ve learned that Marge Simpson will have a pictorial in the upcoming November issue in honor of the cartoon’s twentieth anniversary. Many of the Hollywood gossip blogs claim that she gets totally naked, but...

The timing is ironic. Just when the memory of recent mind-opening experiences is encouraging me to admit how bored I am with this blog, the October 2009 Playboy contains a one-page article by Steven Pinker, one of my biggest intellectual influences. I...