I don’t do a lot of product stuff around here. It’s just not my thing. But when my friend Stephanie over at A Belle Reve offered me a chance to learn about the new Graco infant seat and get a…
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Questions I’d Ask The Candidates Tonight
Questions for Mitt Romney: We’re confused: do you like Romneycare or not? If not, why? How do you defend private sector wage stagnation? Come clean on abortion. You’re going to piss someone off no matter what. At least be straightforward…
Whatever Happened To…
OK, this post is pure, goofy fluff. I was watching The Breakfast Club the other morning and started talking about 80s movies on Twitter. That led to wondering what happened to all the characters when they grew up. Which led…
The VP Debate: What I Heard
Martha Raddatz: Welcome to the only vice presidential debate. This will be a discussion between two guys who will be one bullet away from the Presidency. What they say will probably never matter. In an ideal world everyone will be…
25 Things I Want My Daughter To Know
I’m back! As many of you know, last month I gave birth to a baby girl who shall henceforth be known as N in this space. As you might imagine, this set me into a feminist frenzy of dreaming of…
Death and Social Media
I wouldn’t say we had been friends in high school. We ran in similar circles back then: the self-appointed misfits who congregated in the literary magazine office, listened to college radio, and read a lot of the kinds of books…
This Week in WTF: People Suck
The news has been pretty same-old-same-old lately. You could turn on the 24-hours news networks and expect to hear something like “Blah blah blah, Romney campaigning, blah, blah blah, Obama explaining, blah blah blah, no knows what the fuck is…
Clean Birth Kits: Help a Mom in a Developing Nation
Ok, this is so full of awesome I can hardly stand it. The incomparable Lydia at Rants from Mommyland clued me into an effort to provide clean birth kits for women in developing nations to mitigate the risk of post-partum…
On Class Envy
You have no idea how much I DON’T want to be writing this post. The reason I don’t want to be writing this is because I’m wholly unqualified to delve into the whole concept of class envy. It strikes me…
I’m Not Outraged. Much.
I’m sorry that this space has been so inactive lately. I was on a real roll there for a while, able to write like the wind and post at multiple sites in any given week. But lately, I’ve fallen victim…
