After a smashing time in London. Well, a bleeding bloody humid smashingly hot brilliant time in London, I was off to Oxford University.
I am here for Renaissance Weekend, which is terribly dead sexy.
And I am being put up in Pembroke College’s student housing. If you enter the main door to the College, walk into the […]
I got to spend some time hanging out with Martin Marty at Renaissance Weekend a couple years ago. All I knew about him was gleaned from lunches, dinners, and panels together. During last night’s run, my friend Marty Marty started speaking into my iPod earbuds in the form of an interview on Speaking of […]
“Party strategists and nonpartisan pollsters credit the operative, Mara Vanderslice, and her 2-year-old consulting firm, Common Good Strategies, with helping a handful of Democratic candidates make deep inroads among white evangelical and churchgoing Roman Catholic voters in Kansas, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.”
Via the New York Times
“The Strategist : Mara Vanderslice of the consulting firm Common […]
I am a feminist. I studied postmodern feminist theory at Uni and felt confident that the progress and passion behind feminism offered by deconstructionism — the cultural and linguistic tools a women would need to redefine her story and her self — would result in a female self-empowerment much more substantial than the hyper-sexual […]
I got a scolding from Chalsea, “you might think that whales dont matter but your wrong. ya you need to take care of your family but we also need to save are world. all of you that sont think that the whales arent important than you SUCK,” because I wrote an article called Don’t […]
Built like a woman should be!
From Wikipedia:
Katharine Hope McPhee (born March 25, 1984) is an American singer who is a finalist on the fifth season of American Idol.
Early career
Born in Sherman Oaks, California, McPhee has been singing since the age of two. Her mother, Peisha Burch McPhee, a vocal coach and accomplished cabaret singer, […]
Thanks to Wikipedia, I am able to offer you a guide to translating the rowing and sculling terms I use.
The athletes
Bow or Bow seatÂ
The rower closest to the front or bow of a multi-person shell. In coxless boats, often the person who keeps an eye on the water behind him to avoid […]
I reread this article, DC Women Only See the DC Men That They Let Themselves See, and I was very excited to revisit it. I hope you enjoy it. I don’t even remember reading and and receiving it. It was based on DC Men and the Number One Wife. Got a Wonkette link from it, […]
The awful mess going down in Durham with Duke brought to the forefront of my mind the essay I wrote, Manolo Blahnik Feminism: The Right to Choos. Inspired by CJR Daily