Author: Jo

Confessions of a Serial Ogler

Being an ist of all isms, it’s time to enlist attention on the ism of sexism, or sexist, which is not really a word at all. In the strictest definition— [...]

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BAD GRRRLS NEED CLASS

It’s always been a personal disappointment that among all the foolish presentations the Nobel Committee has made (sic, Obama Peace Prize), there was never [...]

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Tergiversatyrs’ Ball

DISCLOSURE Time to come clean. It has leaped to our attention here at the The Trying Times bunker that the name of the perp at the console who’s [...]

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Nineteen 45

Memorial Day should be held memorable. Especially when living in Japan and teaching there, I learned that the state sponsored textbooks refer to [...]

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