Riot.Jane The Westboro scammers were up to their usual shenanigans yesterday, Memorial Day (US), at Arlington National Cemetery. The latest twist? The Knights of the Southern Cross (KKK) responded in kind. Westboro is, for the most part, a multi-generational family affair,…
Riot.Jane I just received the following e-mail, and the topic is news to me. This is surprising because I’m usually pretty current on matters of reproductive freedom . . . More on this topic to come. This is not an advocation that anyone…
Riot.Jane In Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good, brain scientist and neuroscience professor at Johns Hopkins University David J. Linden, PhD, describes the physiological processes of…
For almost two years, I was “The Other Woman.” The man was divine in my eyes. The wife was a crazy person, and theirs was a loveless marriage. He stayed married to her because, where he came from, divorced fathers…
I’ve found that mentally dissecting (or comparing point-by-point) a contrary argument is a useful tactic in strengthening your own. At the very least, it’s a mental exercise that helps one separate emotional, moral, and logical factions of his own opinion. In that spirit,…
In the continuing series of Riot.Jane’s favorite books . . . In no particular order, this is the third: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood The only one of my Five Faves written in my lifetime (1985 publication), this novel extrapolates American sociological currents…
Greetings to the Ladies Jane! Today I’ve stubled upon an odd intersection of feminism and digital rights to share with all of you. My two favorite subjects, rolled into an unlikely bitter pill. This doesn’t happen often, so I’m going…
First, they came for the “child molesters,” but I was not a child molester. So I said nothing. Then, they came for the “terrorists,” but I was not a terrorist. So I said nothing. Next, they came for the “conservatives,”…
I bring to your attention (and hope for you discussion!) this StrangeNews tidbit from the St. Petersburg Times: TREASURE ISLAND — A woman has been arrested after accosting her live-inboyfriend with a pink sex toy. Kimberly Lynn Calvert, 45, [address…
The Associated Press reports on the case of a State of Arizona prisoner Marcia Powell, an inmate placed in an unshaded “outdoor detention enclosure” (i.e. cage) for twice as long as regulations dictated and died of heat-related causes the next…
Cultural Dissidence 