Author: Curmudgette

Just when you thought it was safe to be an American again… You know I almost didn’t write this entry; being as it is a rumination on the decline of American civilization. I’ve been so heady since the election....

I have stayed out of the Duke Lacrosse rape story. I have no capacity for journalistic dispassion on this issue for reasons that should become clear as of this writing. My associate the Blogging Curmudgeon emailed me this CNN...

So many times I have opined like Morticia in “Adams Family Values”: I’m just like every modern woman trying to have it all. A loving husband, a family. I only wish I had more time to seek out the dark forces...

Soj, you are a character! I mean that literally. It seems that your identity and the particulars of your life and career came under a bit of scrutiny on both the Daily Kos and Booman Tribune. As if that weren’t bad enough,...

Just give ’em a hummer. Thus spake Sharon Stone. Young people talk to me about what to do if they’re being pressed for sex. I tell them (what I believe): Oral sex is a hundred times safer than vaginal or anal sex....