Archive for civil war
“View Bob McDonnell With Alarm!” (E-I-E-I-O)
Let’s face it: Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is an inept head of state who can’t even manage to keep his culture warrior pants neatly pressed. For anyone who’s been paying attention, he’s already done enough to disqualify himself from any Presidential ambitions he’s widely thought to entertain.
First, there was the embarrassing imbroglio over gay rights, [...]
Boiled in Oil
A few years ago, Martina Navratilova was asked about how her openness about being a lesbian had affected her tennis career. In characteristically honest and amusing fashion, she had this assessment (and here I paraphrase): Well, it wasn’t great. It cost me some fans, I took some heat for it, and I lost almost all [...]
Lysistrata’s Daughters
In Aristophanes’ funny-through-the-ages play, “Lysistrata,” the title character (from Athens) leads a pack of determined Greek women in withholding sex from their husbands until these war-mongering hubbies cease the endless Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta.
Although the play is often (justifiably) remembered for its ribald descriptions of the sex that’s withheld (my favorite is a position referred [...]