Occupying Wall Street from the Midwest
We have seen the force of Occupy Wall Street dwindle over the past months since the country has swung into Election Mode. However, that does not diminish it's initial impact.
read moreThe First Con—How To Handle It All
Conference season is almost upon us, and sitting here today looking at my own rather hectic schedule I had a flashback to the very first three day conference I went to. I did everything wrong.
read moreAll I Want for Christmas is a Gadget!
The big Christmas gift, if disgruntled teens on Twitter are any indication, was the iPad. It’s not just the iPad either, as Amazon has their e-reader, the Amazon Kindle, as their hottest gift of the season.
read moreI’m In Favor of Legal Prostitution
While, as a Christian, I do think that sex belongs in a marriage between a man and a woman, and whatever you do is none of my business. I think you have a right to do what you want to. I’m not the one to judge you.
read moreGovernment
There is a general agreement that the government should be able to enter the family unit in order to protect children, but under what conditions? Child abuse and neglect are the obvious intervention worthy offenses, but foster care has recently removed a child due to weight issues.
read moreGoon Diaries
Goon, Thug, or Scumbag, if you are against them! Enforcer and Policeman, if you are trying to glamorize them! Fighter, if you’re doing neither. Whatever your opinion of these warriors, and your stance on fighting in Pro and Junior leagues is, one cannot dispute that the fights not only have a negative and nasty physical tool, but...
read moreDear T.I.
So I curl up on the couch on Tuesday and open up the news searching for some juicy sex-related gossip. Google News, Reader, a couple sex sites and various tabloids are open in ten or twenty tabs in Chrome. It looks like a flurry of sex news chaos but lost among the mix are the maybes. This is my morning routine Tuesday through...
read moreQ&A with Becky Beaupre Gillespie and Hollee Schwartz Temple
Authors of Good Enough Is the New Perfect: Finding Happiness and Success in Modern Motherhood. 1. You talk about two types of working moms in your book: the Never Enoughs and the Good Enoughs. Who are these women? BECKY: We’re going to generalize here for a moment, but the Never Enoughs are the women striving for perfection at...
read moreThe View From Here
R.I.P. December 17 1930-October 20 2010 PENTHOUSE SWEET: A Tribute to Bob Guccione The realm of adult entertainment grieves the loss of magazine mogul and xxx pioneer Bob Guccione. His skin empire set the precedence for countless knock off publications, movie productions and signature toy lines. Adapting to Hugh...
read moreThere are Worse Things Than Dance. No, Really.
A troupe of young girls becomes a YouTube sensation due to an energetic dance routine to Beyonce’s “Single Ladies”, and triggers a moral panic across the nation, due to their costumes and dance moves. And frankly, the people that are worrying about how these girls performance is going to destroy childhood/the future of...
read moreWhy Arguing Does Not Suck
If you are like me, the endless diatribes and battles we’ve watched go on with healthcare the last year has left you exhausted. Are you tired of hearing how making any changes to the health care industry is going to ruin, bankrupt or lead this country to a new era of totalitarian fascism? Me too. I’ve lost respect...
read moreHealth 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 passes their version of...
read morePoly 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...
read moreIt’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...
read moreNot 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 are claiming this man...
read moreNo, 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,...
read moreCan 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...
read moreFailure = 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...
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