A few pieces done this week for Salon
(These were done, concept to final, in a few hours. Not always a good thing, not always pretty, but so great when it all works.)
The Great Depression: The sequel
Is it coming to a soup kitchen near you? Here's how we'll know if the current recession is turning into something much worse
By Andrew Leonard
Terror and loathing
Martin Amis may not know much about Islam and 9/11, but he knows what he hates.
By Laura Miller
Marching into the Mommy Wars
Everyone has an opinion about stay-at-home mothers. With her new novel, Meg Wolitzer has just one agenda -- to tell the truth about their lives.
By Rebecca Traister
Is the Internet eroding America's Puritanism -- or making it worse?
Beneath the gawking, the online reaction to the Spitzer and Paterson revelations shows that Americans are wary of passing judgment on private sins.
By Gary Kamiya
Getting it on for science
Bonobo porn, MRI sex, female Viagra. "Bonk" author Mary Roach on the scientific quest to understand arousal -- and how little we still know.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
And a little gem from Garrison Keillor: "What makes no sense at all is when the arrogant idiot expects us civilians to support his unprincipled policy as a way of "supporting our troops." The troops are not mercenaries, they are American soldiers in a long proud tradition going back to Gen. Washington's Continental Army at Valley Forge, and what gives their mission dignity and meaning is that it comes from a constitutional government in which war is not a point of personal privilege but a matter to be openly debated, opposed, protested, reported. For the troops to fall into line is a noble thing; for civilians to fall into line is shameful."
April 3, 2008
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Celebrating breakage: Handbuilding clay forms is just a wonderful process, although still a challenge because I tend to make my pieces very thin.
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The world's smallest bowl, a little under an inch across.
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