Sinead O'Connor is one of my all time favorite artists. Her music spoke to me...her eyes spoke to me...her contempt for organized religion spoke to me. I remember watching her SNL...
This is an email exchange between one of our bloggers and me. He asked about how my brother Dick was doing since he was diagnosed with lung cancer.
It looks like I'll be in Wichita the end of Sept...
With the first resignation of a pope in six centuries, a huge energy block has been moved out of the way of human relationships.
For its entire history, the Roman Catholic Church has set the rules...
I want Elizabeth Warren to be our next president. My favorite line from her SEC smackdown, "there are district attorneys and US attorneys who are out there every day squeezing every day...
The big story today is that Pope Benedict XVI is resigning (abdicating in my book). Betty watched a new HBO documentary Mea Maxima Culpa about sexual abuse in the church and urged me to watch...
I miss Aaron Schwartz. In this interview, he explains how the internet undermines entrenched media power structures:
Betty always says how the internet was the first place she wasn't censored...
I was at a no-shoes dinner party this weekend and ended up barefoot (my socks were wet from walking in dog bowl water). Several people complimented me on my feet. My secret: I only wear...
Bishop Larry Trotter posted this picture of himself with his granddaughter on Instagram and started a social media uproar. Comments poured in about his "disgusting" behavior alluding to some sort of...
I was a book worm from the time I was a little girl. When I was 5, my favorite movie was Sireno De Bergerac...my favorite record was Swan Lake...I never wanted to be beautiful I always wanted to be...
In response to the recent bus gang rape in India...and the resulting protests...sex workers, lesbian and gay protestors held a silent march today as people feel too little is being done by police and...
Ted Rall makes a powerful point about the whole Petraeus affair/resignation: we're all entitled to privacy in the bedroom. And what if inquiries into sex scandals were met with an admission:
You'd like to think that things are better in some part of the world...that there's a place where kids are taught about their bodies and their sexuality.
This week a seventeen year old girl caused a...
The Warwick University rowing club is putting their brawn behind the Ben Cohen Standup Foundation to end gay bullying. They produced a naked calendar and this video:
They're straight. ...