BACK OFF OUR BABY MAKERS (OR OTHERWISE BARREN UTERI)

The federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed defining abortion to include birth control pills, implants, shots

The Amazing Comic Book Reader!

Standing at Kenmore Station this past week, I flipped through an issue of Uncanny X-Men from my weekly haul of comic books.

Lessons Learned from Tim Russert

The death of Tim Russert, former NBC News Washington bureau chief and moderator of Meet the Press, got more coverage than the last US president to pass away, Gerald Ford. Why?

Beat on the Bratz: Won't someone please think of the children?

The world of recreational plastic embodiment sure has changed since I was young. I'm not talking about the commonplace trends of rhinoplasties,

Surviving the Season

I have a confession to make: Red Sox fans drove me from my home.

While perhaps I wasn't chased from my apartment in Brookline with flaming torches

As if geekiness needed more debauchery

When Best Buy launched the Geek Squad, the assimilation of techie know-how into popular regard took a revolutionary step forward. Geeks were suddenly seen as useful and on the edge of cool, teetering there with white button-downs, black ties and an assumed knowledge of esoteric beeping and blooping devices.

As if geekiness needed more debauchery

When Best Buy launched the Geek Squad, the assimilation of techie know-how into popular regard took a revolutionary step forward.

Up Yours: An Affront on skirt! magazine

The road to the White House: filled with sexist speed bumps

"Listen Lois, I know you're a feminist and I think that's adorable, but this is grown-up time and I'm the man." - Peter Griffin, Family Guy

Let's all laugh now because in about two sentences you're probably not going to like me very much. You can go ahead and substitute "Lois" for "Hillary" and "Peter" for "America" ... The American media, actually, and its blatant, unchallenged double standard in "reporting" on the Democratic candidates.

Golf, Fish, Pigeonhole: A word against Father's Day

A customer in the card shop where I work took a step back from the Father's Day wall in disgust. "My dad doesn't know how to fix anything!" she said, referring to the preponderance of tool-related greeting cards celebrating the holiday. "He doesn't golf, doesn't fish," she added, negating about 80 percent of the rest of her options. Eventually, she left the store empty-handed, presumably to find a place that sold something fitting her reality.

Odds are, she'll have a hard time finding it.