Salon's always excellent Mary Elizabeth Williams has a blog today on Time Magazine's provocative new cover article, Are You Mom Enough? which is, as Williams points out,"accompanied, by the way, by a picture of a hot blonde and her 3-year-old son standing on a chair to suckle her breast. " (Partial… Read full post »

I get it.

Conservative America embraces "stand your ground" laws, because everywhere they look, their ground IS threatened.

While Progressive America keeps moving the tent pegs farther and farther apart, stretching the fabric of the constitution to cover more and more of those who had been left… Read full post »

On the way to work this morning, I was mostly listening to KNPR like a good progressive. I was also making the decision to yes, take the freeway, indicating, changing lanes, and generally just listening with half an ear. I heard a news report about a "hate crime" (like there are "love"… Read full post »

My president, Barack Obama, is absolutely within his rights to say that if he had a son, the child would look like Trevon Martin, and those, like the odious Michelle Bachmann and Newt Gingrich, who have called him out for it are not only wrong, they are dishonestly so. Disgustingly and… Read full post »

I remember the days when authors wrote books, and publishers published them, and bookstores sold them, and all was right with the world. Those days are gone.

My last two books sank into the salty sea off the coast of the Island of Broken Toys, I think. Unpublicized, unsold, they… Read full post »

The Pill - by Matt McGinn - 1968 

"I wed when I was seventeen,

I hadnae many brains,

Says I, "the very thing to do

Is fill the hoose with weans,"

But when I got the room full,

I went tae see the priest,

Tae tell him my man… Read full post »

I hate breast milk―the words, not the thing itself. There, I’ve said it.

We don’t call cow’s milk “udder milk.” Or “teat milk.” We give to non-human milk the dignity of calling it by the name of the creature it comes from. Cow’s… Read full post »

My kids. They've lent me money, visited me in the hospital when I had alcohol poisoning, even agreed to wear kilts in Las Vegas in June for me. They clap when I sing "Good Girls Don't" at Dino's karaoke bar on the Strip, and just generally have been much better kids… Read full post »

Actually, in the same way that a broken clock is right twice a day, Sarah Palin has recently unwittingly (of course the only way she could) coined a pitch-perfect description of a group of shrill and disagreeable women; a "cackle."

As usual, of course, Palin misapplied it, to femini… Read full post »

I'm signing copies of my new book tonight; if you're in Las Vegas and want to stop by the Foundation for Recovery Bookstore on Sahara and Decatur between 6 and 7 p.m., I'd love to see you. Between the time of the book's publication and today, a period of approximately… Read full post »

Just spent the afternoon re-reading my newest book, which just arrived from the printer: The Soul Workout, to be available in bookstores and online from centralrecoverypress.com and amazon.com on May 2 , 2010.

Many, many thanks to Stuart, Nancy, Sara, Val, Da… Read full post »

Last week after several hours on the phone trying to find an optometrist who would accept my insurance, I ended up at an old eye doctor I used to go to who said he'd take my new insurance "as a courtesy." Okay.

I'd been struggling with a "thing" inside my lower… Read full post »