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3 myths about egalitarian relationships

I recently had an on-air exchange that was an insight for me into how some men feel about feminism, equality between the sexes and egalitarian relationships. It struck a chord with me because, for the past 14 years, I’ve been in a wonderful egalitarian relationship with a woman I consider ...

Use this handy flow chart to determine whether you are being persecuted

Idea by Rachel Held Evans. Made cuter by me in Illustrator.

I’m not an expert on sex education, but…

I’m a news hound whose job it is to research, dissect and analyze the news and present it to my audience with a little opinion thrown in for good measure. As part of this, I often get exposed to all the great research being done in contemporary science, and the ...

iRaffle 2

The Parker Area Alliance for Community Empowerment, a nonprofit youth organization, wanted to get the message out about their ‘iRaffle’; fundraising by giving away a bucket of the latest Apple gear. This is the ad we did for them.

Nuggets from the Django screenplay

WARNING: This post is FULL of spoilers. Django Unchained is brilliant. It’s classic Quentin Tarantino: cathartic revenge plot, tense moments, stylized violence, references to other films, artistic licence, historical context, gritty drama and epic comedy. QT marches to the beat of his own drum, and the results are fantastic. I ...

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Etsy outtakes

My parody of the Etsy community (here) was partly improvised by Ariana with my direction. Watch some of the process here, with my line suggestions and their amusing results.

Somewhere becoming rain

Christopher Hitchens, in his last days, had a debate with his friend Ian McEwan about whether Philip Larkin, in his celebrated poem ‘The Whitsun Weddings’, concluded the poem in a ‘horribly dark’ way: “I set the poem up and read it, and when I reached that celebrated end, “A sense ...

Christopher Hitchens

Well, yet another of the people who inspired and influenced me has died. Christopher Hitchens was a towering intellect, ferocious wit, brilliant polemicist, and the kind of writer that is in short supply. His vast knowledge, his sense of humour, the ‘Hitch slap’… damn, I’m going to miss it all. ...

Biden wrong: crime is falling, not rising

If we don’t pass Obama’s jobs bill… horror awaits, according to Vice-President Joe Biden. Murder. Rape! Watch Joe Biden in this short clip from HumanEvents.com: So now we know. Unemployment causes rape and murder. Isn’t that what the Vice-President is saying? That’s why we must pass the jobs bill, because ...

On the practice of making schoolchildren repeat the Pledge of Allegiance

I’m not from the United States, so occasionally I get into trouble for airing views which reflect a more British approach to subjects like patriotism and flags and national pride. This is one of those occasions. I made the following unwise comment yesterday on my Twitter feed: The sound of ...

“Hero Pilot” or “Miracle On The Hudson”?

I keep hearing both these descriptions of the incident with Flight 1549, as though they’re both compatible plausible explanations of what happened. I suggest either Sullenberger was a hero OR it was a miracle: not both. A miracle means God intervened to ensure that those innocent people lived. Quite why ...

A sample argument from the marijuana debate

I love the debate over marijuana. Â Literally, love it. Â It’s fun to be right. Â And it’s fun to talk with people that haven’t thought that hard about it, because you can see the cogs turning in their brains when you start to point out some fairly obvious truths, like the ...

Scary Jesus

The highly anticipated sequel to Chocolate Jesus.

From the archive: Response to Naomi Wolf

Original published on November 8th, 2005 at 9:52am. ———————– Dear Naomi In response to your article in the Guardian – â€œWe Americans are like recovering addicts after a four-year bender” – Iâ€™d like to point out a few things I believe you got wrong. You start by saying that George ...