“The Rage Is Not About Health Care”: Teabaggers and Racism
In Frank Rich’s New York Times op-ed “The Rage Is Not About Health Care ” he notes: The week before the health care vote, The Times reported t...
Author: Lisa
She plays o' the viol-de-gamboys, speaks three or four languages word for word without book, hath all the good gifts of nature, knows a hawk from a handsaw, and can see a church by daylight. The rest is subject to fancy.
Byron and Shelley Excoriated from the Grave
Author Daisy Hay while researching her book Young Romantics, about the Shelleys, Byron and their “tangled lives” found a fragment of a memoir by Cla...
Vincent Van Gogh: The Letters
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has provided an exceedingly well done Website featuring all 902 letters from Vincent van Gogh, complete with high resolution im...
We Are All African
We are all Africans. We originated in Africa. That is proved by the continent’s rich genetic inheritance. Africans are more diverse than the rest of humanity pu...
Knowledge and Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire and Digital Cuneiform
Language Hat‘s post about the utterly nifty Knowledge and Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire site, a site about the Neo-Assyrian capital of Nineveh PGP in w...
Pornography, Women, and Honesty
Stacia Kane in a thoughtful post about the book Porn for Women from the “Cambridge Women’s Pornography Cooperative,” asks: Isn’t it time we mo...
Gollum: Schizophrenia or Multiple Personality Disorder?
…Gollum displays pervasive maladaptive behaviour that has been present since childhood with a persistent disease course. His odd interests and spiteful behaviou...
Sucking the Quileute Dry
To millions of “Twilight” fans, the Quileute are Indians whose (fictional) ancient treaty transforms young males of the tribe into vampire-fighting wolves. To t...
The Semicolon: The Most Feared Punctuation On Earth
Everything you always wanted to know, but were afraid to ask, explained simply, clearly, and precisely right here by The Oatmeal.
Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse 5 POW
In December of 1944 Private Kurt Vonnegut was captured by Wehrmacht troops. A month later, Vonnegut and his fellow POWs were imprisoned in an underground slaugh...