I could have sworn I’d clicked “No, thanks.” But instead I must have clicked, “Hell yes! Sign me up now because God forbid I should have only 17 other points of access to all the mundane shit my friends (or should I say ‘friends’?) are up to.” Thanks to the shiny new Gmail Buzz, Google’s [...]
In Backwards and In High Heels, Technology, The Column, Writing on
16 February 2010 with 3 comments
Feb. 15 marks the last day that parents of children going into or already enrolled in the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) can apply for “school choice.” If you’re not a parent, you probably think this column doesn’t apply to you. But please. Don’t skip over to the medicinal-marijuana ads just yet. There’s valuable [...]
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2 February 2010 with 4 comments
As I begin preparing to go on Euro Gallavant 2010—also known as Debt Fest 2.0.1.0, or Reinvent Yourself: The 21st Century Edition—I’ve been making contact with a few other writers with whom I’ll be sharing prosecco toasts and sunsets over the Amalfi Coast. I sure hope they’re not talkers, boy. I like my sunsets lonely [...]
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1 February 2010 with 2 comments
An acquaintance of mine blogged recently about some things she’s sick and tired of, and her post inspired me to account for a few of my own. As I racked up my itemized list of grievances, the worst earthquake in 200 years struck the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Oh, Haiti. How you put [...]
In Backwards and In High Heels, Politics, Pop-Culture, The Column, Writing on
19 January 2010 with 10 comments
On the morning of New Year’s Eve, I woke up in my own bed for the first time following a week of hedonism in the Pacific Northwest. Unlike the lurching gray skies I’d left the night before, cheery sunlight poured through my curtain-less French doors forcing me to be happy-happy. Unable to sleep—what with all [...]
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5 January 2010 with 16 comments
At James Madison High School in Brooklyn a few weeks back, two teachers were busted for being naked in the classroom while students were at an assembly. And last week at Congress Elementary School in Milwaukee, a teacher lost her mind in front of her students.
First grader Lamya Cammon was playing with her braids, the [...]
In Backwards and In High Heels, Race, The Column, Writing on
22 December 2009 with 6 comments
Oy vey, did the newsreel trip the light fantastic over women’s healthcare last week, or what? Separated by a matter of days were two important recommendations pertaining to feminine health, both of which are dramatic shifts from that which American women know and expect and to which we’ve been trained to adhere.
On Friday, the American [...]
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25 November 2009 with 5 comments
It was the image of the bra on my computer screen that caught my attention. I was sure, on first glance, that the lady mannequin was wearing it backwards, what with the way her aerodynamic ta-tas were left uncovered by the absence of fabric that normally holds them in place.
But quite the opposite from being [...]
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10 November 2009 with 10 comments
Halloween is upon us again, and that means only one thing: We are a mere month away from the all-American phenomenon known as Black Friday. Yes, each year, to kick off the holiday season, millions of people will loosen their belt buckles and fight the effects of tryptophan to flood the Big Box stores in [...]
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28 October 2009 with 6 comments
I’ve been involved in a rather heated internet debate with some women I collaborate with on another website. We’ve been going back and forth, as part of a larger discussion, on the meaning of a loaded word. And I’d really like to know how it makes you feel, what it makes you think. I’m curious [...]
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27 October 2009 with 25 comments