January 2005

I just got a form letter from Naral Pro-Choice America (which I assume was forwarded to many feminist bloggers, and all of those at the aggregate I belong to) asking if I’d post about their Give Us Real Choices campaign against “Chastity Week,” a “campaign” launched by the Pennsylvania State Legislature promoting chastity as a […]

Via feministing: Here’s some sample “advice” being given out to today’s teens in those abstinence-only sex-ed programs that my tax dollars are going toward. Here’s my problem: this “advice” not only goes against my personal values, but encourages male hatred toward women, female passivity and the squelching of desire, and worst of all – presents

My father was raised Catholic. Catholicism is why his mother had five children (my favorite story of my paternal grandparents’ marriage: when she went into labor for the fourth time in order to deliver my father – having given birth to three girls previously – and they were wheeling her into the delivery room, my

Worst. Protein bar. Ever. Sweet god, that was bad. Uh. Cardboard. Yuck. I bought a whole fucking box of these yesterday, shit. I need to switch these out. Bah. Blech. OK, OK, I’ll go back to playing Antz or something. Wonder why corporate America turns people into zombies? Because they either 1) hire people to

Wow. I get paid for this. Astonishing. Corporate America.

Fucker.

Great short story writer. Check out a selection of her stuff here.

Including the famous: Wild Cats of Babylon.

Older piece by Pollitt, very good: A long time ago I dated a 28-year-old man who told me the first time we went out that he wanted to have seven children. Subsequently, I was involved for many years with an already middle-aged man who also claimed to be eager for fatherhood. How many children have

Nice peice about the plasticisation of Hollywood stars, and it’s ripple-effect. Where are all the real people?