Earth Day is celebrated on this date because the environmental movement really got started on April 22, 1970. The idea for a national day to focus on the environment came to Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, after witnessing the ravages of the 1969 massive oil spill in Santa Barbara,… Read more Happy Earth Day!
This is our rescue dog, Foxy: When we adopted her from an animal shelter in September she was nearly hairless from malnutrition and living on the street, and so starved you could see every bone in her body. The vet says someone tried to breed her but non of her pups lived long enough to… Read more Foxy Only Barks at Passive-Aggressive Behavior
If you are one of the many, MANY people celebrating St. Patrick’s today – either from genuine Irish pride or because you are using your great-grandmother’s potential 1/8 Gaelic heritage as an excuse to get wasted and party this weekend – you will be enjoying the festivities because of all the Irish who strove and… Read more Happy St. Patrick’s Day
I have written about Donald Trump, the buffoon campaigning for the Republican nominee as President of the United States, on multiple occasions. I have written about how he is uses nativist fears of the Other to scapegoat immigrants for societal ills they did not create. I’ve written about Trump’s breathtaking hypocrisy and lies. I’ve mentioned… Read more Fear and Far Right Populism
The recently released results of a metadata analysis found that organic meat and dairy products do indeed have some nutritional differences when compared to conventional beef and milk. The organic meat and dairy has significantly more Omega-3 fatty acids (yay!) and significantly less iodine (boo!) than ‘regular’ meat and milk. As usual, the benefits of… Read more Food for Thought
Back when the earth was still cooling and I was in grad school, I took a class on anthropological theory. Now, I am a semi-postmodern girl, in that I think the truth is highly subjective and relative … but I do think some things are provable data. The graduate school I was attending was, at… Read more From Whence Science
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died on Saturday of a heart attack while on a West Texas hunting trip. Now, I would never write a tribute to the man who said torture was Constitutionally okay because it wasn’t punishment per se or black people were maybe better off in lesser schools (which is another way… Read more Scalia’s Death and the Next Member of SCOTUS
Today, I had planned on discussing the birth and death of Elizabeth of York. Alas, I feel as though I must discuss Beyoncé’s performance at the 2016 Super Bowl before it and its civil rights message loses cultural focus. First, a celebration of one’s heritage and ancestry only seems to be problematic in America when… Read more Beyoncé and Entertainment as a Site of Resistance
Iconic musical superstar David Bowie has passed away from cancer at the age of 69. His birthday was January 8th, 1947 and I am convinced he held onto life until 2016 because he wanted “69” to show up on every obituary. His overt sexuality and wry sense of humor would both be satisfied by that,… Read more David Bowie: Amazing and Transgressively Gender Fluid
I am writing this to help the many mothers-to-be that have written me about their Kell sensitive pregnancy and how it could have happened. I think the hardest thing for anyone in a modernized medical society to realize just how random and confusing the body still is. You can do every single thing “right”, and… Read more Kell inheritance