The best slavedoes not need to be beaten.She beats herself. – Erica Jong, "Alcestis on the Poetry Circuit"On our second date, Teddy told me that he was a sadist.He said, "I want to do horrible things to you." He looked at me intently. He wasn't playing around. A bead of sweat formed on the

In 1984, Geraldine Ferraro ran as the Democratic vice-presidential nominee. She wasn’t the first woman to run for vice president or even president, but she was the first vice-presidential candidate for a major party and maybe the first who had a real chance at winning. I was 16, and while my mom, a

Way back in the dark ages, back when the boob tube was still black and white, contestants vied to see who had the worst sob story for prizes in Queen for a Day. It wasn't until the late 1990s and Big Brother that the genre we think of as "reality television" really took off, though, and The

Have you seen that article floating around about how Obama's female staffers made sure they were heard during meetings? Basically, to ensure their points were made, they banded together, and each time one of them made a cogent point, the others would "amplify" the message by crediting the woman who

So, in case you were cut off somewhere on Alpha Centauri yesterday and missed this critical election news, Secretary Hillary Clinton felt a little overheated while attending a September 11 memorial event and needed to take a time out. All the usual suspects promptly went bananas: Finally, the