Whose Family Values Are They, Anyway? Happy Adoption Day!
I wrote this post almost four years ago. In that four-year time, gay marriage has become law in almost half the states in the Union and yesterday Tylenol ran a new ad that celebrated all the different...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren, Planned Parenthood, and Me…Redux
Six years ago, I wrote a post about Dr George Tiller, who was murdered by someone who called himself “pro-life.” I’ll leave you a minute to savor the horrific ironies in that statement. And now, six...
View ArticleMelania Shares Our Pain
Poor Melania Trump. All she wanted was to marry a millionaire and settle down to an untroubled existence in a gold-leafed penthouse. Once she’d produced the requisite heir—the double-barreled Barron,...
View ArticleVanity Fair, Elon Musk, AI, and Frankenstein’s (unexpected) Monster
Vanity Fair magazine recently ran a profile of Elon Musk that focused on the ways that Musk is at odds with other tech gurus about the relative merits of artificial intelligence (AI). Musk, who thinks...
View ArticlePerimenopause: Nature’s Way of Reminding Us that Adolescence Was Hell
The amazing Viola Davis was on Jimmy Kimmel the other day, talking about, among other things, the care-and-tending of an Afro, the dangers of an MRI, and menopause. Jimmy asked her how long menopause...
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