The pictures on these pages are taken from my high school yearbook -- one of those idiotic-looking kids is even me, in my senior picture. And we did look idiotic. That's one thing you can count on, probably until we stop having high schools with yearbooks, is that everybody looks idiotic in them twenty years later. And popular kids look just as idiotic as the unpopular kids. In fact, sometimes the nerds and misfits look less idiotic -- because they were out of step with popular fashion of the time. In my yearbook it's 1983-84, and the popular kids had mullets, giant curly hair, "feathered" hair helmets, Dynasty hair, and other bizarre hair choices. In fact, when it comes to hair, the 1980s was one of the most ridiculous decades in all of human history.

Over the weekend, I was called upon to explain why I find the term "Adam's Apple" offensive and sexist.

The term bothers me because most explanations hold that it is a piece of the forbidden apple that stuck in Adam's throat. Because, you know, Eve swallowed it down no problem. But Adam... oh, he sinned, but he didn't enjoy it. Sin got stuck in his throat. Because men are just better than women, you see?

I guess it's my month of objecting to Alternet articles -- beware "the dangerous idea that nature exists to entertain us"!

Or, you know, not.

Seriously, when people like George Will characterize liberals as joyless geeks, this sort of article is exactly what he's talking about. It's the liberal version of "Think of the children! Won't someone think of the children!" Only in this case we're supposed to worry because, in the words of one hand-wringer, "Nature does not exist purely to entertain children. And these bears and walruses -- which would devour us if given half a chance -- are not fuzzy toys soft-shoe shuffling across a rapidly melting snow stage."