We had a lovely lunch today at Jaleo in Bethesda with my parents and my cousin David and his fiancee Jess. Avi brought the car around so the kids could finish eating their ice cream from the ice cream place next door. He commented that there were a lot of police cars near the Apple store a block away, and we wondered if there'd been some iPad- ( Read more... )

I logged on to write about a kerfuffle in the atheist/secular humanist community that will sound very familiar to you...but the pertinent video has been replaced with one where there's only music and you can no longer hear the speakers in question. ::eyeroll:: Way to fix the problem, folks ( Read more... )

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ldragoon points us in the direction of yet another Photoshop disaster on the part of Ralph Lauren: OH RALPH LAUREN NO!::boggles:: And in the comments, someone points to an article suggesting that the victim of the first Photoshop disaster might have been fired for being overweight. I mean, geez, she's 120 lbs and 5'10". ::eyeroll ( Read more... )

Oops, I totally meant to repost heatherly's post earlier.

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::nods firmly:: Count me in as a member of the Open Source Women Back Each Other Up Program. If I see a woman who looks uncomfortable, who's being groped, who's being bugged, I'll back her up. (Heck, same goes for a man, but we know the numbers don't tend that way ( Read more... )

I'm pleased to announce the official opening of shakydismount, a community about parenting and feminism and fandom and the intersections thereof. cereta was kind enough to allow me to be a co-mod, and I'm really looking forward to some good discussion.

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