This week's sporkful

Something was weird with my Tuesday post, where it just didn't seem to get the visibility that it normally does. Yesterday it only had e...

Remember how people used to talk about celebrity death trifectas?  I think it was always more myth than reality. If one famous person died, ...

It is still Women's History Month (though not for much longer) and I have been reading a lot about my dear Jane lately. There has been a...

In Tuesday's post I referenced hyperbole and United Farm Workers.  They were separate thoughts, but there was a connecting thread that ...

When going over Davidson's original apology , I mentioned some issues with it, but there was one I did not address: his mortification wa...

I don't love that title, but I couldn't think of a better one. For all of the white people newly deputized to care about ableism, mu...

These are some thoughts that had been floating around for a while; maybe Women's History Month is a good time to express them.   I would...

I wrote a whole draft yesterday, then realized I'd opened up another can of worms. I guess that one will go up next week. I was making t...

"I am and always have been deeply mortified if anyone considers my involuntary tics to be intentional or to carry any meaning...  I ...

Today's post is not about the BAFTAs. I am still working on getting all of my thoughts there to build in a logical order. I am also wond...

Last year I commemorated the history months with articles, but I got off to a disorganized start and so I did not immediately start blogging...

Here's one other ground rule: I will be writing out "the N-word" and "the R-word" rather than spelling it out.  I tr...