I'm a DC-area mother with an over-developed sense of irreverence, ADD, socialist tendencies and a blog. All my opinions are entirely my own and not representative of anything officially sanctioned by any political party, my mother, or arbiters of common sense and good taste.
So here’s an interesting question. If your teenager tweeted that the governor of your state “blows a lot”, what would you do? For me, it would depend entirely on who the governor was and if he or she really did blow a lot. For example, I would take real exception to a teen saying NY Governor Andrew Cuomo blows a lot because I think his engineering of the passage of same-sex marriage legalization was masterful…
So. The Super Committee. Yeah. Let’s stop calling them “super”, shall we? It was so nice to think of this bi-partisan group of Congressional budget experts, a super squad of deficit crusaders, sitting in a conference room in the Capitol with reams of paper and some adding machines, working diligently to assure our national financial future. We could all imagine them calling over to the Office of Management and Budget and the Congressional Budget Office…
In no particular order… Robert Reich Even Ensler My grandmother Matt Damon Henry Rollins David Sedaris Barney Frank Nancy Pelosi Hillary Clinton Madeleine Albright Robin Williams Richard Holbrooke J.D. Salinger Nathan Lane Jon Stewart Stephen Colbert Jen Lancaster Bill Clinton Ann Richards Michelle Obama Al Franken Wanda Sykes Aaron Sorkin Jeff Koons Jim Henson
I would like to thank the GOP for this post because they were like the gift that keeps on giving this week. Let us begin with the wacky antics of the current raft of Presidential nominee contenders. They’re funnier than a clown college these days. To begin with, we have our favorite Midwestern darling, Michele Bachmann. Representative Bachmann made a speech wherein she hinted that her opponents are not really conservatives at all but instead…
I’m going to come right out and say it: I DON’T approve of the Duggars. I don’t mean I disapprove of their choice to have their 20th child. That’s on them and I don’t care much about it. What I disapprove of is some of the fundamental tenets of their religion and their decision to put their kids on tv. When I hear people defending the Duggars the two arguments I most often hear are…
There are not a lot of things in life and that utterly black and white. Life is full of shades of grey, infinitely confusing, with all levels of nuance available for interpretation. Except for this: if you ever, EVER see an adult abusing a child, call the police. I am incensed by this story coming out of Penn State University. Apparently an assistant football coach was sexually abusing young boys he came in contact with…
Dear House of Representatives, In God We Trust? Really? That’s the best you could come up with? Listen, I know things are shitty for you now. Your approval rating among the American people dipped down to 9% recently and I strongly suspect that the 9% who said they approved of you were actually stoned at the time and meant to say they approved of the new Beavis and Butthead cartoon. Your overall productivity, in terms…
Y’all knew I had t weigh in on the Kardashian divorce news. Today’s So Here’s the Thing column over at the Washington Times Communities is all about that weirdness and marriage in general. And let’s face it, folks: we didn’t marry Prince or Princess Charming. We married frogs. Hot, sexy, smart, funny frogs who are great parents and partners but frogs nonetheless. And those frogs married frogs. None of us are the people we look…
