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“Just A Parent”

I had an interesting experience the other day at the 8-10 year old basketball game here on the USAG. We were watching the game of the son of a friend of our family at which The Kid was cheering with … Continue reading

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Those Who Yell the Loudest…

A while back I was having a talk w/ The Guy. See, there were some related things that coincided with this little thing that happened where this celebrity you might have heard of, Amanda Palmer, together with her partner created … Continue reading

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Your Infinite Wisdom

While I was experiencing some technical difficulties I got a most interesting comment in my mod queue for this post. My first inclination was to delete it, but instead I decided that I would write a post about it, because … Continue reading

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APO

So, when you live overseas (and to be clear “choosing” to live overseas is like “choosing” to either have a root canal or loos your teeth) with the military you are issued an APO box, so that you can still … Continue reading

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Don't look back in anger…

Via The Red Queen I find this post from Antigone at Punkass Blog in my blog reader. I wasn’t able to get to the Washington Post piece (it’s behind a subscription wall) but I remember this at Feministe not long … Continue reading

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From the Moderation Queue…

comes this little gem on this post: Juanita *is* fat. She’s so fat, she’s at risk for diabetes and heart problems. Every time I see her in an episode I want to cry, because a child this fat will have … Continue reading

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Dear Everyone

Can we knock this shit off for the love of gods? Calling Nadya Suleman “Octomom” still makes you a big misogynistic ass hat, and an all around jerk. She has a name, and a nice one at that. And I … Continue reading

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There there, little girl…

Mzbitca of What a Crazy Random Happenstance wrote a post about the annoyances of trying to deal w/ a hyphenated name on official paperwork.  It’s not the name that is annoying, but the inherent sexism and incompetence of presuming that … Continue reading

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A few action items…

A dancer, identified as Roberta Busby, was set on fire outside of the club where she worked (h/t Renegade Evolution).  Feministe has information on what you can do to help, including links to photos of the suspects of this vile … Continue reading

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Fuck You of the Day

As I was reading this NYT Op-Ed about this craze known as “The Hookup Culture”, I was worried at first, and then almost relieved, b/c Mr. Blow seemed to be handling it rather fairly, until he consulted his “expert”.  His … Continue reading

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