being not doing

The past few weeks have been exciting ones for gender parity in civil marriage, and it looks like there’s more to come. Iowa and Vermont have joined Massachusetts and Connecticut in ending the use of gender as a qualifier for marriage eligibility, and the legislatures of New Hampshire and Maine have passed their own bills [...]

It’s probably true that every small town has its dramas, but the ones in University Park seem to always fall out along lines of race and class. This shouldn’t surprise me, given that I live in a town that was incorporated with racial covenants in a county that was and is predominantly black. Language is [...]

After my excitement last week to have a dairy vendor at the Riverdale Park Farmers’ Market, I’m ticked off that the milk I purchased from J-Wen Farms was bad when we opened it, five full days before the sell-by date. It wasn’t totally rotten, but it was putting off an odd smell that my partner [...]

Either J-hole Jindal or Fox News — or both, most likely — need a refresher on what happens after the President signs pieces of paper that are submitted to him by Congress. Because no one is ‘taking on the spending bill’ anymore, but one big bobble-headed blatherer in particular is talking smack about blocking access [...]

Dear Whole Foods, You bust your unions. You stock Coca-Cola products. You refuse to submit your coffee suppliers for third-party fair-trade certification. Your CEO conceals his identity online in order to pimp his own stores. Do not presume to tell me which ingredients are acceptable in my bath products. Thank you, Me