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A year ago, I boldly took my blackberry where it had no business going. Namely, a blind date. On Valentines Day (VD). With a Republican*. As Fate would have it, six months later I did find my current boyfriend, thanks to Twitter. We met each other by accident, bonding over Chuck Norris and Wu Tang [...]
An article on the Hotline crossed my inbox the other day – a lamenting blog post on how the Grand Old Patriarchy Party is short on recruiting women into their candidate bench. (Pardon me while I dissolve into a giggle fit.) Women are still vastly underrepresented in Congress – in fact in the 111th Congress, [...]
On January 30, 2010, young geek girls (particularly those of color) did a happy dance. Caressa Cameron, student at Virginia Commonwealth University and former ugly duckling, rocked it and became our next Miss America. She is also (for those counting) the eighth African American Miss America. This post originally was going to skewer the time-honored [...]
While many are fuming over the recent Supreme Court case lifting restrictions on political campaign contributions, I’m obsessed with a different kind of gross corporate advocacy. It’s no secret that CBS sold a Super Bowl ad spot to the arch-conservative group Focus on the Family. While they claim the ad won’t be overtly pro-life, I’m [...]
After 37 minutes of deliberation, a jury yesterday found Dr. Tiller’s murderer guilty of first degree homicide. I couldn’t watch the livetweeting of this case, but the verdict gave me a small and important measure of comfort. In a world that wants us to think the pro-lifers are winning the culture wars, its validating to be [...]
Happy Friday, everyone! I’d like to give Apple and the iPad a shout out for helping me remember why I ever started this blog. They were almost as motivational as Sarah Palin in front of a microphone. In honor of me getting off my lazy mental-couch-potato butt (and with hopes that I will actually be [...]
So besides the State of the Union, two on-going wars, Haiti post-earthquake recovery, and our country’s economy going down the shitter, Apple released a new electronic trinket. They call it … (and unless you live under a rock you already know this….) the iPad. That’s right. The unfortunate misnomer ranks up there with Crystal Pepsi, [...]
Unless you’re living under a rock, you probably know that Martha Coakley lost her bid to take Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat in Massachusetts. I’m just going to say it – I wasn’t surprised at the outcome. Much like Dukakis and Kerry, Coakley didn’t do what campaigns should do between winning a primary and crushing a [...]
It’s amazing how fast news travels in a 2.0 world. Yahoo officially responded last night for the female dancers at Taiwan’s Hack Day. Unfortunately, this is after the author of that letter tweeted about how the Hack Girls “perked up the hackers.” Other news outlets carried the apology as well as further criticism. What I [...]
