CYNTHIA KAPLAN is the author of Why I'm Like This: True Stories (William Morrow, 2002) and the just released Leave the Building Quickly (Morrow, May 2007), and her comic essays have been published in many magazines, newspapers, journals ,and anthologies. She, herself, has appeared in many plays and some movies as well as in comedy and rock clubs in New York and other cities. She has never been on Law & Order. She lives in New York with her husband and children. Visit her, if you wish, at www.cynthiakaplan.com.

Blog Entries by Cynthia Kaplan

The Bush-Bootstrap Defense

Posted October 16, 2007 | 05:23 PM (EST)


Those poor, uninsured kids, they just don't turn out in great numbers during the all important election years, do they? And when it comes to fundraising, well, frankly, they stink. Really, the only thing they've got going for them is that they can grow up to serve in the military.

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Conflation Nation

Posted June 1, 2007 | 04:07 PM (EST)


I've just returned from a hair-raising journey to a strange and terrible place. Okay, so it was on the Internet, and I didn't have to change out of my running clothes, but we all know that there are corners of the Internet, dark, dank, worrisome corners, where scary things...

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