Julia Burke Interview

Our contributor Julia Burke is something of an expert on wine, so I got hammered on Thunderbird and asked her a few questions about it. Enjoy!

Bumping Uglies: The Church, The State, Science, and Fiction… between the sheets

Religion, like sex, should be consensual. But sometimes the Church sneaks into our beds unwanted and unannounced. All too often, it jumps under the covers with government, and government’s desperate enough to give it a sad, pathetic snuggle.

In the meantime, while science is always welcome in my bedroom, sometimes fake science tries to slip in––sometimes in hilarious ways, and other times more insidiously.

When religion and woo poke their determined junk at our sex lives, things can get a little ugly. Welcome to my column.