Bye, bye, Blago

And so we have a new governor, a more stable one, though he's been known for years as a gadfly. When Eichmann was on trial in Jerusalem,...

Guest blogger Ruth Pennebaker on the Coyness of Tata Savers

Photo of a coy girl Ruth Pennebaker, of www.geezersisters.com, wrote this piece today, which I wanted to bring to everyone's attantion. ...

What's so funny about cancer (books)?

Here's a piece I wrote (with a few changes) for The Chicago Reader. It is way way way way shorter than it needed to be, but the Reader...

The Critic(s) Speak

From the most recent issue of Kirkus Reviews: Wisenberg, S.L. THE ADVENTURES OF CANCER BITCH Univ. of Iowa (Adult NONFICTION) $$25.00 Mar. 1...

Gone Fishin'

I've been in California since Xmas Day. I came for the MLA convention in San Francisco, which is the largest collection of humanities pr...

Nobody Likes Blago--Not Even Komen

Maybe Blago will keep sliding away until he's gone from the the frame. The Dallas Morning News blog tells us that Susan G. Komen for th...

My Achilles' heel

Ladies, don't throw away the removable pocket of your mastectomy camisole! You can use it to cover your toes when you get your foot in a...