You know how in my last post I overanalyzed stuff? Not here. Not necessary. The writing is on the wall, clear as a swastika on a bathroom door. Yesterday, a friend on Facebook posted an Op-Ed in Swarthmore College’s newspaper, The Gazette, entitled “A Response to Yesterday’s Anti-Semitic Hate Crime from a ‘Whiny Brat Jew,’” […]
My Morning as Viagra Sidewalk Counselor
Last Thursday, June 26, 2014, the Supreme Court struck down a Massachusetts law that created a 35-foot “buffer zone” outside women’s health clinics (at which legal abortions are performed.) While my instincts cried foul, my intellect told me that since the decision was unanimous, the law itself must have had some pretty massive fundamental flaws. […]
Small Comfort for Mothers, Fetuses, and Jews
Part Four (closely related to Part Three) of I-Don’t-Know-How-Many in a series of posts inspired by “Miss Representation.” If you haven’t seen the trailer for this movie, and you have 8 minutes, please watch it here now. A very good and sweet friend sent me a 33-minute video and asked my opinion. A man named […]