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ARIES March 21-April 19: When Carolee Schneeman was a kid, her extravagant adoration of nature earned her the nickname “mad pantheist.” Later, during her career as a visual artist, she described her relationship with the world this way: “I assume the senses crave ...

This just in! No, really, it moved just as I was limbering up my hunt-and-peck fingers to knock out this week’s rant. According to the...

Endless plates of cruelty In a press release earlier this week, Applebee’s restaurants announced “the long-awaited return of All-You-Can Eat Riblets to kick-off 2018!” But the...

ARIES March 21-April 19: There was a time when wetlands were considered dismal and unproductive. At best they were thought to be a waste of space, and at worst stinky breeding grounds for insect pests. For more than 200 years, many marshes, bogs and swamps were ...

Spoiler alert: There was never any tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in the Hugo water supply. Rather, this is a story of false positives, of fear overtaking...

ARIES March 21-April 19: “Before I loved you, nothing was my own,” wrote Pablo Neruda to his lover in one of his sonnets. “It all belonged to someone else — to no one.” Have you ever experienced a sense of being dispossessed like that, Aries? A sense of there being...

Here’s some good — and terrifying — news about alcohol addiction. According to a story at The Scientist website, the anesthetic drug ketamine could be...

While partisan politics have kept Congress from passing legislation that would increase the federal minimum wage to $15, cities across the country have taken...

Dear Dan: Living my truth permits others in my fairly conservative circles — Christian family struggling to accept a gay son, colleagues in a...

Dear Dan: I love my husband of 20 years, but our sexual differences are putting a strain on our marriage. Ten years ago, he asked me to talk dirty to him about having sex with other men. It has progressed to him wanting to be a cuckold. I only want to be with him, ...

In 1960, physicist Freeman Dyson suggested that the energy demands of all technological civilizations would eventually exceed the natural resources of their home planet....

This is a preview of this week’s Savage Love. The full version is now exclusively available on Dan’s website Savage.Love.  Dear Dan: A friend hooked...