Politics and Religion

There's so much about this year in politics I should be chronicling, people such as Obama (race and its sociopolitical construction, leadership, speeches and inspiration) Edwards (policies, press as kingmaker/kingbreaker, trustworthiness, his wife's illness) and Kucinich (he looks like a Keebler elf, his wife looks like a Tolkien elf) but I did want to write about one thing. ( Read more... )

Why Slash? Why Het? Why Gen? Why Anything?

This isn't really the evenhanded, reasonable, persuasive essay it should be. It's more of a stroppy little rant, because I got exasperated. ( Read more... )