young girls

Nashville antiracist Tim Wise calls out those pigmently challenged feminist Hillary supporters threatening to vote McCain:

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I was listening to NPR this morning about how Miley Cyrus is the latest in a line of role models for girls who have disappointed them: Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Jamie Lynn Spears,Vanessa Hudgens of High School Musical fame, etc. Of course there is the usual discussion about the oversexualization of children and the cult of celebrity in our society, but the real issue is that young girls look

Crone Speaks hits Congressman Jimmy Duncan for support of abstinence-only sexual education:

Nancy has a former coworker who had a boob job. These aren’t the kind of things that I normally express an opinion about to her. “No, I think they look GREAT.” or “Yeah, I noticed she could use a some enhancement.”

It is so fun when somebody "gets it."

thanks to the

I have a really weird writer’s block, and I don’t quite know how to wrestle my way out of it.

I’ve always been the kind of person who has three or four of anything going. If I’m knitting, I’ve usually got an intricate cabled pattern for the times when I feel like being deep and complicated and a sock or washcloth for the times when I just want to knit easy and mindless stitches. I’m also usually in the middle of two books at once–the

Ah, Hollywood. Source of our most finely-honed insecurities and holder-upper of the most horrifyingly perfect standards of appearance. Oh how we love to hate you for it.

Airbrush away, fair La La Land. We're on to you anyhow. And sometimes, you don't look so hot, despite having many millions and minions at your service.

For example, would any sane woman want beaut-ay advice from this super model?