Last presidential debate, last presidential debate liveblog.
Although technically I didn’t actually liveblog the first debate — my computer was down so I just yelled my would-be blog entries into the empty vacuum. Somehow shooting them into cyberspace is far more satisfying.
NOTE: The best part comes around 2/3 of the way in, when a certain [...]

In case you missed the fireworks last night (and are at all bothered by this fact), a few colleagues and I liveblogged the debate over at the Huffington Post. Though honestly, all there really is to take away is that if you’re a registered Republican, McCain won, and if you’re anyone else, Obama won.
UPDATE: [...]

By no coincidence, it’s much more fun to write about crappy movies than good ones.
Also, for the record, I’m not an atheist — I just wish the people who make a living preaching that God exists could do a little better job of explaining why.
And finally, a comparison that needed to be made. [...]

It’s hard not to pick up on all the little mantras as you go through life–those pedagogic sayings and catchy idioms meant to jog us out of our daily bitchings. They spring forth from Hallmark cards, insurance ads and suburban church message boards, until they’re lodged in the “wish I could unlearn this” portion of [...]

One of the nice things about getting older is the number of gods in the universe starts to shrink. I used to have boatloads of gods. They mostly consisted of My Elders — not so much the distant ones, like Reagan and Chuck Robb and Larry Hagman — they were too abstract to rule the [...]

The funny think about splitting up with someone after many years is that you find yourself totally reconfigured as a person. All the things you thought you knew about yourself–those qualities you’d pasted onto your mental bulletin board as “You” and pulled out whenever some shmuck in a family gathering or job interview asked you [...]

I’ve been getting plenty of questions about this, most of them along the lines of: “Does this mean you’re plunging down the moral abyss into lurid sex journalism?” Well, no, assuming there is some abyss down which one can plunge in this already free-falling industry.
But if you’re looking for something a bit “higher [...]

I’ve never had much to write about sex. Call it prudishness, call it the last remaining shreds of a desire for privacy, but I’ve always operated from the default setting that nothing I had to say on the matter was all that interesting. We all have sex, we all like it, we all let it [...]

I can be reasonably tough . I didn’t shed a tear when I broke off the corner of my elbow in 7th grade or when my lower back decided to spontaneously decombust, I have no qualms about telling the jerk at the bar to stop calling me “sweetie,” and I’ll look a burly deliveryman in [...]

This piece also appeared in The Huffington Post.
Last week, I had a forced identity crisis. As it did for plenty of other women/writers/people who consume far too much media, Emily Gould’s infamous cover story and the resulting maelstrom sat in my thoughts, roiling and churning until the inside of my head looked like something envisioned [...]