Victoria Brownworth

After two feet of snow in yesterday’s blizzard, my head is spinning from the concomitant stresses of the weather–I hate being snowed in—and the endless health care reform debacle. It’s hard to know what to say at this point about health care reform. As a progressive I want it and as a person with serious [...]

for most people, the polanksi arrest and subsequent hand-wringing from the pro-child-rape contingent (there’s nothing else to call people who support a man who raped a child orally, anally and vaginally after drugging her) is yesterday’s news. those of us for whom rape is not passe feel differently. the polanski case is not over. nor is [...]