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I’m talking, of course, about True Blood, set to premiere on HBO tonight at 9 pm. I am sorta embarrassed to admit that I actually went and got HBO added to my cable package just so I could see the thing. Worse and worse, this is the first television show in about, […]

I wanted to honor Aisha and all the wives of Muhammad by giving voice to them, remarkable women whose crucial roles in the shaping of Islam have so often been ignored — silenced — by historians. I guess maybe someone will give them a voice next year or something. — Sherry Jones, You Still Can’t […]

The main character-to-character relationship development in so many books (and movies) is between a man and a woman; the second-most common is between a man and a man–a relationship between two women as the central focus, especially two unrelated women, is definitely the rarest of the three. (Reminds me of the Bechdel test.) […]

I admit to being slightly obsessed with Omar Khadr’s story. Many of us here in Soviet Canuckistan, the one major U.S. ally unwilling to say a peep about America’s human rights violations in Guantanamo Bay, are slightly obsessed with Omar Khadr’s story. I’m not sure if the Khadr family—”Canada’s First Family of Terrorism”—gets as much […]

Plagiarism is wrong; especially plagiarism this bad:
On page 195, after several false starts to stoke the furnaces of readers, Bramlett and Shadow Bear finally get down to business. They have sex in his teepee on some animal pelts. Hungrily, their sinuous bodies rock and quake until both explode in rapturous pleasure. When the teepee flaps […]

Nefarious agents of the homosexual agenda.
I post about penguins probably more often than I should, but they’re terribly cute, and for whatever reason, they seem to get used as political footballs far more often than the poor things deserve.
Well, it’s happening again. The most challenged book of 2006, according to the Chicago-based American Library […]

I’m off as of Monday on vacation (I’ll be back the following week with, I hope, fascinating tales of Homeland Security and the SPP protests). In the meantime, here’s some reading material:
Baghdad without water.
You know the whole “you broke it, you bought it” Iraq war theory that’s popular amongst Sensible LiberalsTM? The invasion might have […]

For those who’ve finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Thoughts appear at random.

OMGWTF HEDWIG.
Voldemort continues to be a sadly and unjustly underwritten character. The scenes with the Gaunts and at the orphanage turned out to be as pointless as they were overlong and unilluminating, because being a sociopath is not a hereditary condition, and […]

I’m just about finishing off Reality Dysfunction (on page 700 or so), any other Sci-Fi nerds who have already walked this dark path before me want to tear into it first before I really let rip on this piece of mary sue ridden evil-done with an eye towards the sexism and misognyny that permeates the […]

I was over at my local Planned Parenthood today, getting my 90 day supply of magic happy pills, and I decided to take my $4 in change over to the used bookstore to see what was available. I’ve been looking for a copy of Andrew Neiderman’s “Sister, sister” for about 10 years now. […]

In which your blogger gives a long and rambling review of Neil Strauss’ The Game, and compares it to Fight Club, in the hopes of getting mad hits when the movie comes out. There are spoilers, but not nearly 500 pages worth of them. You could read this whole thing and still be […]