Roger Ebert on how the press reports mass killings

It suddenly struck me: this Doctor Who episode from 1974 was eerily prescient in its depiction of a certain woman.

At the beginning of the week, I was going to write another political post about the UAE port deal — but I decided to put it aside for a bit and try to have a week without politics, without news, just to pretend  [more...]

One thing that has really burned me for years is the fact that I can’t donate blood. The Red Cross, in it’s bigoted wisdom, assumes that any gay man must automatically have AIDS, and therefore refuses blood  [more...]