Media and the Election Process – Guest Blogger A.M. Hinch

Today’s post is brought you by my friend A.M. Hinch, because electoral politics have me so enraged, I really can’t do much more than bang my head on the keyboard and howl in anger. Where, you may be wondering, is my regular writer today? And why has she left us with this yahoo we don’t even know if we’re going to like, trust, or listen to? Well, if Mickey is not quietly drinking herself into comfortable numbness over in the corner in an effort to do the same thing most of us would really enjoy – escaping the political madness in our everyday news – she should be. Perhaps...

Women’s Bodies and Disor...

Posted on 9 Jan 2012

So, today I saw this on my Yahoo homepage, with the link title “Christina Aquilera defends body.” Basically, she’s getting blasted by the tabloids for being “fat” and is saying, “So, what?” which is amazingly refreshing. I...

Out With the Old, In With the ...

Posted on 1 Jan 2012

Here’s hoping that I am not nearly as sick as I think I am. As it is, I don’t think I’m going to be going to a punk rock show tonight. I think I’ll be hanging out at home on the couch watching documentaries on Netflix and drinking tea. 2011...

Happy Whatever You Celebrate!!...

Posted on 24 Dec 2011

On Christmas Eve. I’ve spent the day knitting on the couch, with cats. My husband’s been baking and roasting things all day. We’re giving my mom a loaf or two of lavender artisan bread, and my dad a couple dozen snickerdoodles. Tomorrow after...

Socially Conscious Gift-Giving

Posted on 13 Dec 2011

Well, it’s that time of year again. The time of year when media screams more than usual for us to “Buy! Buy! Buy!” Faux News has started their yearly war on the non-existent “War on Christmas,” pretending that saying “Happy...

Calling a Homophobic Bigot a B...

Posted on 30 Nov 2011

So, I got involved with a little dust up in a friend’s Facebook the other day. (No! Not you, surely!) Anyway, he posted about this Christian group who, upon hearing that singer George Michael is reportedly ill, called for their followers to pray for a long and...

RIP Anne McCaffrey – You...

Posted on 23 Nov 2011

Anne McCaffrey, author of the Pern books among many others, passed away Monday night. She was 85. When I met her at DragonCon, she was confined to a wheelchair, but still feisty as all get out. When I started to cry, she scolded me: “Don’t you cry! ...

Where “I’m not a f...

Posted on 21 Nov 2011

So, in the last post I referenced Captain Feminism who came in to tell a bunch of feminists how terrible we were at feminism. I would like to thank Captain Feminism for illustrating something. I’ve railed about “I’m not a feminist, but…”...