‘Reasons My Son is Crying’ and the Suffering of Children
This is not just a dancing cat blog.
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“Hey You! Anti-Semite!”: A Jewish Krewe does Mardi Gras
Krewe du Jieux parades through the French Quarter every year, tossing bagels and handing out “Jew eggs,” small plastic eggs containing a yarmulke-wearing baby.
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Were Angels Just Lucid Dreams?
Lucid visionary states have been sought by a wide variety of cultures, not just for the euphoria and freedom, but because they were believed capable of transforming and uplifting the individual to a divine level.
Read More‘Rome is Gay’
That’s what the posters are saying. And lest you think they just mean happy-go-lucky, the image on the broadsheet shows…
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Blood for Oil
The disastrous oil spill should come as no surprise, since no amount of human sacrifice is unacceptable or unimaginable where the relentless pursuit of glittering riches is concerned. “Blood Diamonds” is actually an appropriate tag for all forms of mineral wealth; all of it is won and held at the price of rivers of blood and suffering.
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The Church of Man-Love: How I Lost One Leper Messiah, and Gained Another, Part 7
In this, Part 7 of Mark Dery’s cultural critique-cum-“nonfiction novella” about a teenage Jesus Freak’s life-changing encounter with Ziggy Stardust, Dery considers the ancient, orgiastic, sometimes cannibalistic roots of all rock fandom—and, for that matter, Christianity.
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Baby Dolls, Sex Dolls, and Ritual Objects
From a man in Japan who has romantic attachment to a pillow, to boom in realistic baby dolls, to a movie about a man who falls deeply in love with a life-size silicon woman, our craze for surrogate objects reveals more than simple fetishism.
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Star Trek: Politics Anti-Matters
The Star Trek franchise was famous for its utopian social vision, going boldly where no popular entertainment had gone before. But the new movie takes us back in time, to an age when political divisions were in stark black and white.
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