For as long as I can remember, people have told me I look like my dad. Occasionally—in our somewhat small town of Dover, New Hampshire, anyway—upon passing me in the street, people have felt a compulsion to exclaim, “You must be Terry York’s daughter!” After an anxiety- and angst-filled adolescence, I promised myself that je […]
I have temporarily changed my Twitter icon from #FreeAlaa to the image on the left, which has resulted in a number of questions from people wondering what I’m advocating now. And so I’ll tell you: Wednesday is the International Day to End Impunity. Though this is not an issue that I work on myself, as […]
Gross, right? Now that I have your attention, I’d like to point you in the direction of Pakistan’s new list of banned words. In fact, the list is so good that I’m going to risk my blog once again getting incorrectly categorized by content filters just so you can see the whole thing: Content Filtering […]