Privacy Versus Career: Deathmatch!

I wonder a lot if posting the things I post, here and at Geek Girls Rule!, and owning them with my real name and all, hurts my chances when I’m looking for jobs.  I wonder if I should tone down the rhetoric and play a little nicer, take out the swears, and be more “friendly” to my...

Podcast: “Nice Guys” and How Not to Rape

So, I try not to do this very often, but this is an important subject.  On my other blog Geek Girls Rule!, I had two guys on the podcast to talk about “Nice Guys” and about how not to rape.  The reason I did this is because Geek Culture has a lot of problems, particularly with “Nice...

War on Women Ramps Up.

So, Arizona passed a bill stating that a doctor can refuse to disclose VITAL medical information to a woman if he thinks telling her means she might get an abortion.  What this means is that women who get pre-natal testing to find out if there is something wrong with their fetus, that will impact either...

What Birth Control Is, Isn’t, Does and Doesn’t Do.

For a medication that 95% of American women take at one point or another in their lives, an awful lot of America sure doesn’t seem to have even half an idea as to how it works.  So I’d like to talk about what birth control pills do. But first, I’d like to point out the CDC’s webpage...

Polimicks Podcast #3, Part I – A conversation on Birth Control

  Ok, then, I recorded  Polimicks 003 Part I, a conversation with Ann Hinch who you may remember from the guest post about two back where she talked about vetting political candidates and holding them accountable for their past actions, particularly when they acted in opposition to what they claim to...

Calling a Homophobic Bigot a Bigot, is not the same as Calling a Gay Man “Faggot.”

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 painful death for the...