I really enjoyed this article from Mary Elizabeth Williams about how the presence of the moral police who hide behind “the children” in politics makes the ordinary work of being a parent who takes responsibility for your own kids that much harder. Though I do some times wonder that even…
Mary Elizabeth Williams has a great defense up of the new internet meme that puts John Pike, that cop who was photographed calmly—chillingly—pepper spraying innocent, non-violent protesters at UC Davis while they sat rather helplessly on the ground hurting no one. Pike is now being photoshopped into an endless array…
So, Mary Elizabeth Williams has called me hysterical and claimed I'm ruining feminism with my supposed irrationality because, on Twitter, I criticized a piece she wrote about her pediatrician accidentally giving her daughter the first dose of HPV instead of the scheduled meningitis shot. When a cascade of people attacked…