Across Africa, a war is being waged on women - but we are refusing to hear the screams. Over the past fortnight, I have travelled into the secretive shadow world that mutilates millions of African women at the beginning of their lives, and at the end. As girls, they face having their genitalia slice...

John Berry: If Tax-Cut Lapsing Is Class Warfare, Let’s Fight, by John M. Berry, Commentary, Bloomberg: If letting top income-tax rates go back to where they were in 2000 is class warfare against the rich, I’m ready to snap to attention with my old M1 rifle on my shoulder. What a ridiculous label...

My life revolves around routines. It's what keeps me sane and organized. It's what allows me to bake hamantaschen in time to give to Pie's teachers, to bake hallah every Friday, to take classes here and there, to volunteer at the kindergarten and synagogue. It's what keeps me up-to-date on this blog...

Mel and I went for a walk yesterday. I wanted a croissant and a cup of cocoa, but I also wanted to buy a new mop. I've looked at the supermarkets and haven't found a suitable mop. All the supermarkets seem to have are very expensive mops with sponge-type heads instead of the fat yarn heads. I have a...

Younger, Cell Phone-Only Households Listen to Lots More Radio: Nielsen Media Buyer Planner, MD“The findings from the Nielsen pilot underscore the urgent need to include cell-phone-only homes in radio ratings.â€� Clear Channel president and CEO John Hogan made a dig at Arbitron, Nielsen’s co...

As a photographer that photographs models, there’s two primary goals that any website that tries to connect models and photographers should aim for: 1. Assisting a photographer in finding the right model. 2. Assisting the client in finding the right photographer. All else is peripheral. The id...

Nonfiction:   I can't stand it anymore, I have to tell you what I'm working on.  I am writing a book based on the same idea as the Archetype site: a guide to help writers get the psychology right in their fiction! The book will have far greater breadth than the site, and go into much ...

Writing from the Philippines, Lode Wostyn situates the Pope’s book within the development of Christology after Vatican II (East Asian Pastoral Review 45.1, 2008). “Ratzinger’s Christology goes beyond the Councils of Nicaea-Chalcedon by simply erasing all the disagreements and ambiguities that ...

I think this is a good idea. The street between Cook Library and OMH needed to be changed to one way ever since they made changes a couple years ago (took away the bookstore parking meter spaces - why did they do that again??) and the street became narrower. However, I think it's ridiculous that peo...

Remember the wind-powered rotating skyscrapers of Dubai? Well, the building boom in the Emirates is over, thanks to the financial crisis. Most of the huge and expensive construction projects have been cancelled or are on hold. Not only that, foreign laborers are being laid off at an astounding rate ...