A contrarian, devil's-advocate-ish post on marital name-change

Name-change and marriage is back in the news, with Jill Filipovic's straightforward, largely unapologetic demand that women cease to ta...

On 'weddings'

In my latest effort at sullying an otherwise fine publication with my ramblings, I wax ambivalent on bridal fauxbivalence . As a rule, I do ...

My journalistic niche: the obvious

There's a ground-breaking essay in the Guardian about how, if you live in a city with good public transportation, perhaps a car-sharing...

Save the fusilli!

Wait, were you going to eat that? Stop! Don't you know that every single food ever is incredibly problematic - to the environment, to th...

Beyond guyliner

As a matter of principle, I must approve of the fact that the most enthusiastic makeup-and-skincare routine "Into The Gloss" has y...

Today in schnozzery

Via Refinery29 , a Guardian story on how Iran has the highest per-capita rate of nose jobs. Interest in international primping trends is ma...

Today in baffling YPIS

Jezebel threads are often a great source for examples of YPIS - of people who don't know anything about one another ordering one another...