Boy howdy, has this been a busy week for me! I’ve been all over the interwebs talking my fool head off. Often before I should have because I’m finding that I’m reversing myself on second consideration of a few things. I started there week off here at home, trying to get my head around new [...]

Do not let the title of this post fool you; I’m not planning to sit here and babble nonsensically. At least not any more than usual. Rather I wanted to share the exciting news that, beginning on February 1, I will be a new contributor to the Being Pregnant blog at Babble. Wheeeeeee meeeeee! I [...]

Yesterday, stark.raving.mad.mommy. and I gave you the Special Douche Categories that we invented for people who were too evil to be mere douches. We know douches and the folks we discussed yesterday are not just your average feminine hygiene accessory.They are more like some sort of torture device and I wouldn’t be sad if all [...]

We asked for your nominations for the biggest douches of 2011, and boy did you come through. In a joint production of  Mom-In-A-Million and stark. raving. mad. mommy., we bring you the Top Ten Douches of 2011. (Cue jazz hands.) If you can’t remember who the biggest douches of 2010 were,  here’s our list. This [...]

Oh, the magic of the holidays! The music! The twinkle lights! The latkes! The totally whack shit available on the open market for your gift giving pleasure! If we ever needed any more evidence that we live in a free market society that rewards creativity and free expression, this list should confirm it for us. [...]

To the tune of You’re a Mean One Mr. Grinch: You’re a douchebag, Mr. Douche. You’re a douche0y douche-y douche! OK, parody song lyrics clearly aren’t my strength. But I know a lot about douchebags! And stark.raving.mad.mommy. and I are ready to call a douche a douche again this year. So I hereby open nominations [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I have a post about bullying up over at The DC Moms today! There should be a very basic rule in life that you don’t get rewarded for being a dick. Obviously, that rule does not exist, which is why Mel Gibson still gets to make movies. But in the compulsory world of public school, [...]

My new gig as an unemployed person leaves me a whole lot less time to peruse the news (ha! I’m a poet!). I catch headlines on the fly and hear snippets in passing rather than listening to CSPAN and MSNBC all day the way I used to at my old job. This new fragmented awareness [...]