Stranger than most….

Sorry to be such a stranger lately….
I haven’t been posting in recent weeks because there has been a major upheaval in my life– the good kind.
I have taken a position at Media Matters for America, a fine media watchdog group/media policy think tank that does outstanding work combating right-wing disinformation and the lazy media who [...]

The Great Lady Comic Debate of ‘07/’08

An awfully uncompelling debate reached its second round recently, long delayed despite its enviable collision of sex, beauty, humor and politics. Unfortunately, Vanity Fair’s he said/she said go-round on whether women are funny is remarkably unfunny, despite the participants’ efforts, which unerringly leads the reader to assume that pundits are the least funny people [...]

An Evening with Amy Sedaris, and the Vulgar Innocent

Amy Sedaris came to Iowa State Wednesday night, speaking to a full hall at the Memorial Union in the heart of campus. I’m told that the folks who scheduled the event and the students whose vote was required to fund it weren’t so sure she would be a good draw. They were wrong.
I’m [...]