I am not a parent, nor am I ever likely to be one. But I know lots of them, and there are lots more who I just overhear in their parenting, so to speak, via various social media and conversations on mailing lists ( Read more... )

Leave a comment on the photo meme if you're so inclined ( Read more... )

Runway finale tonight. All I can say is that Mondo better damn well win. If he doesn't, in the words of Senor Bale, we are f***ing done professionally. I don't think there's ever been such a clear front-runner in Runway's history, though. And they don't give out surprise prizes just to be contrary and unexpected. Last year, the guy everybody ( Read more... )

I'm so proud to be a Dan Savage fangirl right now, I can't even tell you. The "It Gets Better" project is, I think, something that actually stands a chance of really helping LBTQ teens get through the horribleness ( Read more... )

theferrett linked me to this interesting article about why people become denialists, and reject fact in favor of mythos. I often despair of what I've called anti-science and anti-intellectual attitudes, especially among what you might tall the teabag demographic, but the article pointed out that there are many reasons their methods are compelling. They use ( Read more... )

I think I mentioned I had lunch with an old friend last Saturday. The friend was Dale, who used to be my general manager when I worked at Borders. He came to the store shortly after I did, in the summer of 2000, and was still there when I left (he's no longer there, or with the company). Needless to say we shared a lot of fond and not so fond ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to write about something that I've been thinking about for awhile, but I had to get it straight in my head what I wanted to say. It's about Hollywood and even the general public's reaction to Gabourey Sidibe. Namely, that I can't help but feel that there's an element of patronization in it ( Read more... )

Remember last week's rant about women as the Death of Fun?. There's another side to that coin, an entirely different but intimately connected rant, about how men are just as unfairly painted with unflattering colors in media and advertising. For every shrewish wife who's the death of fun there's an idiot man-child husband who does his level best ( Read more... )

It's Monday. It's butt-ass cold. Time for a rant ( Read more... )

So the other night, I had the Discovery Health channel on in the background while I was writing. I admit to sometimes being fascinated by shows like Medical Incredible and Mystery Diagnosis ( Read more... )