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Deception is only wrong when it’s them, right?

26. January 2010

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Deception is only wrong when it’s them, right?

I recently read an article that was relating rape culture to anti-choice agenda. I was outraged when I saw the vultures that stand outside of abortion clinics harassing the women who are merely exercising their rights over their bodies. I was so angry to see the low, cheap, deceptive tactics they were using to ‘level [...]

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Dear Democratic Congress

20. January 2010

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Dear Democratic Congress

Dear Democratic Congress: What the hell is your problem? No, I mean seriously? Stop being a such a bunch of pussies and govern, for fucks sake. We need you to start acting like you own the place. Because in case you haven’t noticed, you OWN THE PLACE! And based on your performance so far, y’all got about [...]

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Sex Toys and Sexual Wellness

14. January 2010

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Sex Toys and Sexual Wellness

Earlier this week, we mentioned the new website California Exotics is putting together, Sex Toys and Sexual Wellness. Sexual Wellness advice and your questions answered by Ryan and Jessica Cassaday, authors of Stop Wondering if you’ll Ever Meet Him . Ryan is a certified life coach and runs a worldwide dating and relationship consulting practice with [...]

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Health Care Reform and Choice

30. November 2009

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Health Care Reform and Choice

Despite all the coverage on the news, it can sometimes be difficult to figure out exactly where we are in the process of health care reform.  Very few of us have time to follow all the developments, let alone read through entire bills.  It’s helpful to know the basics of the process: the House [...]

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Poly in the News

25. November 2009

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Poly in the News

Much has been made on the internets about the CNN.com article that came out recently on non-monogamous relationship models. It’s a good article for the most part, fairly balanced and well-written, with a brief look at poly as one relationship alternative. The central question of the article, “Is Monogamy Realistic?”, can’t truly be answered in [...]

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It’s not rape-rape, part two

15. October 2009

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It’s not rape-rape, part two

So, apparently, if you want to work for certain government contractors (aka Halliburton or KBR), upon employment you must sign a contract which says rape allegations will be handled by private arbitration. Oh. Ok, sure, I will sign that. Because I completely trust that a company who has bothered to include a  rape clause in their [...]

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Not really rape-rape??????

2. October 2009

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Not really rape-rape??????

I am surprised. I am disgusted. I am shocked, really, that anyone would actually stand up in defense of a man who has been convicted of raping a 13 year-old girl. As a woman whose life was profoundly altered by being coerced into sexual behavior as a child, I am utterly in a state of disbelief that people [...]

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Ignorance is Bliss… till the test results come back positive

15. September 2009

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Ignorance is Bliss… till the test results come back positive

So, this was going to be a rant about Glenn Beck and how someone over at Fox needs to please, please for the love of decency get him some medication. (Probably they don’t have decent health insurance over at Fox… poor Glenn) But, instead I’m gonna talk about ignorance. Ignorance as a method for protecting children from [...]

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No, you can’t get your death panels in maple…

27. August 2009

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No, you can’t get your death panels in maple…

…but you can get them in blood.  (A response to Laurel’s post on health care reform) Federally run healthcare. Federalized. Healthcare. I sat down today, and I wondered- what does the government already handle related to healthcare, that they don’t fuck up? I am not a rich person. My family is not rich. Neither I, nor my [...]

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Adventures in Cyberland

20. August 2009

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Adventures in Cyberland

The Bloggess has been unblocked by Shatner and is back to saving virgins everywhere.  Or at least giving them good STD and pregnancy advice… Kal Cobalt is taking on kink, five incisive points at a time.  This week?  Needles.  Mmm.  Needles. Paula Abdul is not returning to Idol.  Yes, that’s old news. But it’s final this time. [...]

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Can I get my Death Panels in Maple?

18. August 2009

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Can I get my Death Panels in Maple?

Yes, it is a health care tirade. It’s been coming for awhile. It’s just that it’s taken me awhile to figure out my own thoughts in the midst of all this yelling and screaming and, well, let’s be blunt, flat-out, fucking lying. But last night, in the middle of a rainstorm that I couldn’t sleep through [...]

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Shatner is a Virgin?

14. August 2009

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Shatner is a Virgin?

No, no, no.  Or, maybe.  I wouldn’t personally know.  But Shatner’s been linked to virgins this week.  And MSNBC.  And SexIs. So what do William Shatner, virgins, SexIs and MSNBC all in common? The Bloggess, of course. Do you know anyone else at all that can end up on MSNBC for being blocked by William Shatner on Twitter? It [...]

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Teh Interwebz this Week

7. August 2009

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Teh Interwebz this Week

So we started out with a kink fiesta over on SexIs this week.  There was Dr. Dick with Guess What, Honey? I’m a Kinky Old Pervert! and Petra Wise with Sex and the Suburbs: Chips, Dips, Chains, Whips—Exploring BDSM and Kink. We had Luxury Holmes‘ interview with Mystrys Genevieve, The Sexis Interview: Mistress Mine, Part One—Birth of [...]

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Failure = Succeeding Beyond Expectations

6. August 2009

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Failure = Succeeding Beyond Expectations

Or Fox News rewrites the dictionary. By Laurel From Alternet.org: Last night, Fox News a clip aired of a woman at a Philadelphia town hall meeting over the weekend berating Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) about health care reform. “What I see is a bureaucratic nightmare, senator. … And you want us to believe that a government that can’t [...]

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DIY Plastic Surgery Fail

22. July 2009

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DIY Plastic Surgery Fail

One would think…  really, truly think…  that folks would leave a few things off their DIY lists. Things that really do require a professional. Things like plastic surgery, perhaps? THIS came into my feed reader via Jezeble the other day and it floored me.  It left me completely and utterly gobsmacked.  Go look.  I’ll wait… Can you say fail? [...]

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