Annotated Bibliography: French slop, Italian despair, and So Ends the Play.

If Americans have so little sense of nuances, it isn’t that they’re incapable of grasping them– after all, American reality itself is sufficiently nuanced– but that they would be troubled by them. To accept nuance is to accept ambiguity of judgment, argument, and hesitation; such complex situations force you to think. They want to lead […]

Tiger, Tiger

My nephew’s arms are softer than a mink, and definitely softer than every baby’s arm you have touched. He is two. His arm skin has stretched out some, but it’s still no rougher than when I first held him, when he was two months old. Last night he yanked his dove soft arm inside his […]

Hearts and Flowers

Oprah and I usually get along fine. But this week, she did a show on erotica and pornography. Some women have sex with strangers, on camera, for money. Some women buy kinky lingerie and sex toys. The show gave the overview of everything NC-17 and passed judgment on none of it. So I’m going to. […]

Splitting Hairs

This week I was reading about the Arian controversy. These nuts in the 4th century spent years and years trying to firmly ascertain whether Jesus, the sorta founder of their religion, was a human or a God or a Godlike thing. The cutest part of the debate was the way the poor Holy Spirit was […]