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.
I’ve been meaning to write about All American Muslim for a while. The show debuted on TLC right around the time I wrote about my misgivings about the Duggars and someone who commented on that post challenged me to compare the roles of of women in the families on All American Muslim with the roles of the women in the Duggar family to prove that I’m really about about women and not just anti-Christian. So…
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…
I didn’t really intend to watch Extreme Couponing. In large part, I objected to use of the word “coupon” as a verb. Not. A. Verb. “Couponing” therefore is not a real word. The proper way to verbally characterize the act of clipping and using coupons is to say “clipping or using coupons”. There’s no need to mangle the language and make up new verbs instead. (For the record, I feel just as strongly about the…
It’s official. I watch terrible television. I’m actually disgusted with myself whenever I get control of the clicker. And yet, I don’t ever flip over to PBS. No, I hover around E!, and Bravo, and TLC and Style network. Where I watch television programming guaranteed to reduce my IQ. Here’s a brief sampling of the garbage I put in my brain every evening: Bridezillas: I’m actually watching it as I write this. It’s the Where…
So, I guess there was another Bachelor finale. A guy proposed to a girl he picked out of a line-up, like a cross between the Moonlight Bunny Ranch and a Russian mail-order bride operation. And I guess she said yes because she doesn’t equate marriage with dignity. Or something. I mean, let’s be real about this phenomenon. It’s totally fucked up. Imagine if the progression of the Bachelor was happening to a friend of yours.…
The hiatuses (hiati?)of the Kardashians and the polygamist Browns have apparently left a gaping void in my life because I’m been channel surfing a lot lately. I get my weekly fix of my favorite matchmaking diva Patti Stanger on Millionaire Matchmaker, which is always nice. I would like to have coffee with her. And also with Judith Regan who she matched last week in an episode that was actually utterly charming. Usually there’s lots of…
I’ve been reading a lot of obituaries of the recently deceased Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke. This man is a. ma. zing. Seriously. He had been involved in every major foreign policy situation since Viet Nam. A graduate of an Ivy League university, he worked at USAID, the State Department, the UN, every Democratic White House since Kennedy, and for major private sector companies. He was one of the authors of the Pentagon Papers. He brokered…
Sometimes I get stuck in my blogging. I need the world around me to provide subject matter and sometimes it fails me. But then…then there are days like yesterday when I click on the Entertainment tab at Huffington Post and my senses are assaulted with stories that threaten to make the top of my head blow clean off. Usually, that’s my reaction to the Media tab where they quote Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly all…
I don’t even know where to start. Most of you know that I love me some E! network. I like Joan Rivers snarking about clothes, I like cavorting Kardashians, I liked watching tears drip down Janice Dickinson’s immobile face in her E! True Hollywood Story. But Bridalplasty? No. I can’t…I can’t. The concept of this show is a bunch of women compete to get plastic surgery procedures and a dream wedding. They have challenges each…
Part Two Welcome to the second half of our serious and important social commentary on the phenomenon of polygamy and Kody Brown as its public face. If you missed the first half of the transcript of our live chat during the Sister Wives honeymoon special, head over to stark. raving. mad. mommy. to catch up. Now, if you’re ready to pick up where we left off, we were discussing what Kody might smell like. ***…
