Andrea Grimes at the Dallas Observer reported yesterday some comments from the chief of the Dallas Police Department about the city’s staggering 25% increase in the number of rapes (according to Chief Dwayne Brown, that’s the actual number of people raping, not just the number who are reporting it). Basically, he cautioned women to be [...]

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So, Stephen Marche has an essay in the latest issue of Esquire called Where Have All the Loose Women Gone? that, er, bravely explores the topic of why the women Stephen Marche wants to sleep with, or expects that Esquire readers want to sleep with, seem to be less interested in doing it than in [...]

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We watched the new Chris Rock special last night, which was weird. He’s a difficult comedian sometimes, because while he’s really insightful and thoughtful when it comes to talking about race, he’s just awful on gender and sexuality. Like, cringe-worthy bad.
I was watching Eddie Murphy: RAW a couple weeks ago, and it’s a lot [...]

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  The Lilypad is where rich, smart people will live after we all drown. It’s basically a self-sufficient, artificial, floating island capable of supporting about 50,000 people. The point is that when water levels rise and everything’s drowning, these self-contained buoyant cities will float happily and peacefully until, I dunno, people start having babies and [...]

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Do you remember being excited? For something other than Dark Knight, I mean (also: doesn’t get released in the UK for another week, I don’t want to hear about it). Like, there was a time when going to see a band play was the highlight of my whatever- I would get the tickets way [...]

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A Moroccan-born Muslim woman, married to a French man, living in the east of Paris with her husband and their three French children lost her appeal for citizenship on the grounds that she has adopted a radical practice of her religion, incompatible with essential values of the French community, particularly the principle of equality of [...]

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