Hey guys! Do me a favour. Look at this list and tell me what doesn’t belong on it: VCR’s Diaphragms made of crocodile dung The Macarena “Purity at all cost.” I’ll save you the trouble: it’s that last bit. Why? Because the other three are all out of fashion. It’s true. An entire abstinence-only educationContinue reading “Well, then! Thank you, o feisty abstinence-only group, for letting me know I should have killed myself when I was seven!”
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Yet another reason why I won’t be voting McCain/Palin
So McCain goes on Jim Quinn’s show, to court conservative votes. Who is Jim Quinn? Why, he is the guy who told a journalist to “get an American name.” Classy, huh? Now why would immigrants and the children of immigrants vote for this guy after that?
Sex, Immaturity, Britney, Bristol, and Good Old Americana
This post on The Interculturalists reminded me of the one thing that I’ll never get over in regards to the US of A: this tee-hee-omigod-wee-wees-and-hoo-haas attitude toward sex and procreation in our collective public discourse. Now, do I think that all French people couldn’t give a crap about Rachida Dati’s pregnancy (Rachida Dati is unmarried,Continue reading “Sex, Immaturity, Britney, Bristol, and Good Old Americana”
A Mere Woman
“I am no man.” – Eowyn. The femininity debate always brings me back to the summer of 1993, spent at my grandparents’ old dacha outside Kiev. As I recall, when we weren’t melting cheese on sticks by an evening fire, or listening to the radio and petting the cat on the veranda as the rainContinue reading “A Mere Woman”
Four Years Ago the Beslan Hostage Crisis Ended
And, for many of us, the world has not been the same since. That’s all I can say about it, really. Although, even though I’ve linked to C.J. Chivers’ “The School” before, I’ll go ahead and link to it again.
Natalia A. 