Letters to my Editor
Just the letter, with minimal comment:I have lived under 17 presidents, since Woodrow Wilson. I don't know that I will see anothe r [sic]. Our present president's style is to stride purposefully to the...
View ArticleLetters to my Editor (Pt 2)
Another letter that kind of needs nothing but itself:My US flag now flies upside down as a protest of unacceptable, unconstitutional injustice when representatives did not represent the people they...
View ArticleJames Thurber
I have a horrible habit of not listening to my mother's recommendations, of avoiding reading the things she says to read or watching the things she says to watch or listening to the things she says to...
View ArticleHow I Became Who I Am: My Most Influential Reading List
I'm totally stealing this from a friend of mine, but I'm going to do that whole shebang ten thing. I'm doing it because at first I wondered what books, if any, helped influence who I became - how I...
View ArticleOh, Women and Their Emotionality!
"Look at Rachel Maddow. She comes at me on the basis of emotion. She demonizes me. I don't want conservatives to win on the basis of emotion. If we lower ourselves to the level they operate on, we hurt...
View ArticleWho Is Like The Beast?
Remember when Speaker Pelosi walked arm and arm in a Civil Rights March across Independence Avenue, from the House buildings over to the Capitol. In three years, I have never seen Nancy Pelosi cross...
View ArticleLong, Rambly, Stream-of-Conscious Thought
I'm not the hugest fan of J.K. Rowling. Don't get me wrong - I've read all of Harry Potter. I've read all of Harry Potter several times. One of the sweetest gifts my sister has ever given me was, using...
View ArticleJeans, and Consent
When I was around the age of twelve, I read a quote from some judge in some rape case somewhere that basically amounted to "girls can't get raped if they're wearing jeans, because you need help to get...
View ArticleBecause You're a Woman
It occurred to me, whilst I was showering (which is where a lot of my good ideas percolate and then go on to die quickly because I have no way of keeping them alive because there is NOWHERE TO WRITE...
View ArticleKeith Olbermann: Today's Worst Person in the World
Look, Keith, I like you. I listen to your show as I drive into work daily, and I would watch you live if I had access to a television at 8 o'clock on any night except mondays, when Chuck is on....
View ArticleQuote of the Day
And I don't know about you, Cristen, but swimming with weights on doesn't sound like much fun. It sounds like a recipe for disaster.- Molly, from "The Not So Skimpy History of the Bikini" episode of...
View ArticleMy Favorite Photo I've Taken
So, I went out the the Southwest. You know how you can tell where you belong? By going other places, seeing them, and experiencing them. I belong pretty much where I am, in New England, or at least in...
View ArticleA Post With No Real Title
**Disclaimer** This is not written to or about any guy in particular. But it is something I have been ruminating about, pretty much since I encountered the catalyst for this post.A little while ago, my...
View ArticleNecessary Reading: "What Kind of Card Is Race?"
Excerpts from Tim Wise's "What Kind of Card Is Race?", via Mandolin at Alas, a Blog:Asked about the tendency for people of color to play the "race card," I responded as I always do: First, by noting...
View ArticleIf This Counts as Anti-Religious, I Must Be The Anti-Christ
So, it's been nearly a month since I first heard episode 184 of Real Time with Bill Maher. And let me tell you, this was the episode that made me think, "Maybe I shouldn't be listening to Bill Maher at...
View ArticleSexism Impedes Good Grammar
Lightning kills girlfriendThat? Right there? Is a Real Life headline. Granted, it's in the Winnipeg Free Press, but this is a headline that exists out in the world, and in a print version!Now, reading...
View Article"High Expectations"
I’ve been hearing a lot about high expectations recently. Partially, it’s because I work in an office full of middle-aged women who find it funny that I expect a guy to cook and clean, and that I have...
View ArticleNotes From a Rally to Restore Sanity
This past weekend, my boyfriend and I went down to Washington D.C. to be a part of Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity. We left early in the morning, got delayed due to traffic, arrived after the...
View ArticleMy Road to Anarchy
Years in the future, when I'm asked when I became an anarchist, I'll be able to point to this paragraph in an incredibly powerful and moving piece by Laurie Penny titled Inside the Whitehall...
View ArticleRape and Wikileaks
This morning, I woke up, checked twitter, and had this:Rape is being used in the #Assange prosecution in the same way that women's freedom was used to invade Afghanistan. Wake up! #wikilieaksby Naomi...
View ArticleHere's The Thing:
I should be in bed. I should be sleeping. I just recently had my wisdom teeth out (like, on friday), and anyone who follows me on twitter or even just popped in over the last 2 days knows that I look...
View ArticleNews Flash: I Don't Care What You Think About My Fashion
So, you know those articles on Yahoo!, the ones that are forever promising to tell you how to get a date, how to keep your guy happy, the things your guy isn't telling you, is your relationship on the...
View ArticleKohlberg, Morality, and Rape
Two girls were raped in and around my home town a couple months back. I'm not going to link to the articles, because although almost no one who doesn't actually know me reads this I'm a little leery of...
View ArticleOn Yes Means Yes
Feminists who postulate that boys must obtain a spelled-out "yes" before having sex are trying to establish rules, cut in stone, that will apply to any and every encounter and that every responsible...
View ArticleA Few Thoughts On Trayvon Martin
When I first saw Trayvon Martin's picture, all I saw was my cousin. I have a cousin who, at 14, at 15, at 16, until he grew his hair out into dreadlocks, looks so much like Trayvon in my memory it is a...
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