Last November (2019), columnist Daniel Lavery tweeted about a scandal and coverup he had witnessed take place in his father’s Bay Area evangelical megachurch. Lavery is an author, co-founder of the late feminist website The Toast, and Slate Magazine’s Dear Prudence advice columnist*. His father is Reverend John Ortberg, former teaching pastor at Willow Creek…
“But privilege isn’t about what you’ve gone through; it’s about what you haven’t had to go through.” —Janaya Future Khan Welp, I guess we have to talk about Lady G, and no, I do not mean Gaga. Lefty Twitter shit its pants last week because a D.C.-based male sex worker tweeting under the name Sean…
Due to the mere existence and long-suffering stubbornness of climate change deniers, I suppose it’s unsurprising that we’re now seeing COVID deniers too. Anyone who still has a Facebook account knows what I’m talking about. It’s scary, yet so tiresome; do we have to do this again? Apparently. COVID denialism, and my annoyance therewith, got…
“I’ve been pushed in front of video as a display of diversity. In reality, currently only white editors are paid for their video appearances. None of the people of color have been compensated.” —Sohla El-Waylly By now, anyone who even slightly follows food media news knows that Bon Appetit Magazine’s editor in chief Adam Rapoport…
“They have every outlet you can imagine. They can pull out their gun and shoot a man walking down the street if they’re having a rough day. And who stops them? No-one.” —Lianne Noel I’m publishing this on June 5, 2020. This is the eleventh straight day of sustained protests because Officer Derek Chauvin of…
Pancakes may be humankind’s finest invention. Whoever first said, “Hey I know! Let’s just pour beautiful cake batter onto a buttery hot skillet and see what happens!” deserves the highest honors society can bestow. I’ve been a persistent and enthusiastic pancake lover since before the age of concrete memories, but once I reached (supposedly mature)…
“In the case of ABC, there was a knee-jerk reaction to solve this PR crisis. The majority of the [Great American Baking S]how’s executive producers were women, all of the finalists and semi finalists were women. And instead of stopping a man from causing more hurt, they continued to send out a ripple effect of…
“We did not do a complete search of records from his office. If something had come up, we would have looked at the records. I do not recall and do not believe we reviewed his Senate records.” —William Jeffress, lawyer for the Obama campaign’s vice presidential search team It is almost mid-May of 2020, a…
My regular readers know that about four years ago, circumstances – what I’ll euphemistically call Mr. Wallace’s job – dragged us from our beloved de facto rent-controlled NYC apartment to the unwashed American mainland also known as New Jersey. Here we still sit. Don’t worry, we hate you too. I think of my nine years…
Since there is, oh, a whole global pandemic occupying our every thought and non-movement right now, I’ve noticed that few people outside Bernie Sanders’ most die-hard supporters seem aware that a serious accusation of sexual assault has been made against our all-but-certain Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden. To be clear, the…
