For some reason, it was the grocery store that did it. In 2009, Maine passed a marriage equality bill through the legislature, and the governor signed it shortly thereafter. That November, the bill was overturned in a “people’s veto” referendum. … Continue Reading
Can someone please explain the point of the following to me? (Via TPM.) Two days after President Obama’s commanding reelection victory, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) solemnly declared Obamacare the “law of the land” — apparently signaling that it was… Continue Reading
All I could remember was an illustration. It featured an old man transforming into a dragon. I couldn’t remember the plot very well, other than it involved an old man turning into a dragon. I couldn’t remember any of the… Continue Reading
Kermit Gosnell, butcher, was found guilty today on three of four counts of murder, and of involuntary manslaughter of a woman whose abortion he botched. Good. Since it would serve no purpose to try expressing the depths of my contempt… Continue Reading
One of the pitfalls of trying to keep a blog going with new material is that, sadly, the irritations and frustrations of its author may persist unchanged with time. The worry that one has griped about something already and the… Continue Reading
As I drove home after running an errand last night, I was listening to the awesome Boston-area music station I love when I heard the DJ make brief mention of something called “mangagement rings.” For those of you unable to… Continue Reading
Oh, Adam Gopnik. Are you aware of how ironic this is? When I was a child, two piles of magazines, pillars of this misplaced faith in a leisurely reading future, rose in adjacent basements. In our house, Scientific American, dense… Continue Reading
“Because I want to help people.” When you’re going through medical school interviews, you can expect to answer many variations on the theme of “Why do you want to be a doctor?” (I know I’ve written about this before, but… Continue Reading
I like to tell myself that, if I put my mind to it, I can make sense of the world. Or maybe not The World, but most aspects of it when viewed discretely without too many confounding variables. Perhaps it… Continue Reading
Let’s pretend. You are a star of a fashion-based reality show. You are one of the show’s signature charms. You inhabit the “avuncular mentor” role. You are both impossibly erudite and genuinely warm, in a somehow winningly stuffy way. The… Continue Reading