Is there anything Ellen Page can’t do?

Answer: No.

Something to think about during playoffs

Slate’s Shankar Vedantam: Newfound concern about the wellbeing of football players has focused on the tip of a very large iceberg. Parents, schools, and athletes worry that thousands of amateurs each year may be suffering head injuries similar to the ones that make us gasp during NFL games. But there’s a worse possibility: The most [...]

Monday Morning Surrealism

Maureen Dowd’s role-models of the moment for the political woman: A god-queen seductress and a horse. One of those aspirations is entirely impossible for today’s woman to achieve. Even if the physical difficulties of changing a woman’s species could be overcome, metaphysically it would be an undesireable option. As Spinoza tells us (Ethica bk.IV.preface),  [A] horse would be as completely [...]