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The manbox does not give up its captives lightly. Consider Andrew O'Hagan, who wrote this tragic piece for the NY Times magazine a couple weeks ago. O'Hagan has got the weepies, he's got 'em bad. He's not allowed to smoke or absorb other carcinogens or eat bags…

As you might have read, I am no great fan of "verbing" -- the act of changing words that are different parts of speech into verbs by simply using them that way. To quote Calvin, "it weirds language." But I heard a word verbed recently…

Mary Cheney saw the previews for RuPaul's Drag Race Season 7, and flipped out.  Although out as a lesbian herself, she can usually be found attacking LGBTQ communities to make political hay for those who trade on the Red base's homophobia.  She wrote, This is an…

alt-text: The only other Wikipedia vandalism that I would feel zero remorse about is editing the article on active US militia groups to replace "militia" with "fanclub". from here. go subscribe to this webcomic right freakin' now. if not, what's wrong with you?

From the earliest age, boys are taught that there is a certain range of behaviors and feelings required of them if they will ever be considered men, and that straying beyond these borders is really not acceptable.  "Act like a man!"  "Real men don't cry!"…