The Wussification of American Kids
Which mom out there contacted the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) about the dangerous Fisher-Price brand high chair that scratched your child? There were 13 of you so fess up. We moms want to […]
September 2010
America! Let’s Take it Down a Notch!
Yes, I’m stealing John Stewart’s plea to restore sanity. Pop Star Katy Perry performed her hit song “Hot and Cold” during a taping of Sesame Street last week, wearing a dress that some felt was […]
Give Women An Inch and They Take a Whole Country
Switzerland had to be dragged up the steps of equality, kicking and screaming before it finally had a federal referendum allowing women’s suffrage in 1971. Although some cantons allowed women’s suffrage prior to that, much […]
Harry Reid Is NOT A “Hottie”: Open Letter to Senator Gillibrand
Dear Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, How rude! Who does Harry Reid think he is calling you a “hottie” in front of an entire audience of politicos at Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s home. Asked to clarify his comments, […]
ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY September 20, 1973: Billie Jean King BEATS Bobby Riggs
Billie Jean King won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, 16 Grand Slam women’s doubles titles, and 11 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles, she was the first woman in professional tennis to make over $100,000 a […]
“Sell crazy someplace else, we’re all stocked up here.”
That’s one of my favorite lines from “As Good as it Gets.” I’ve often wondered how much space is actually between sane and crazy. My guess is not much. In fact, I think that people […]
Are Burqas Just Another Form of Peeping?
Belgium’s liberal MP, Daniel Bacquelaine, is a leading force in his country’s movement to ban women wearing burqas, “We cannot allow someone to claim the right to look at others without being seen.” To date, […]
China: “We graduate 7 million university students a year. We’ll either make it ourselves or buy it from somewhere else.”
Those are fighting words delivered by China’s Commerce Minister Chen Deming in an interview with Washington Post reporter, John Pomfret, regarding the U.S. administration’s challenge to China’s currency devaluation. What Chen doesn’t realize is that […]
FROM THE VAULT: John Glenn Sucks
“My mother could probably pass the physical exam that they give preseason for the Redskins, but I doubt if she could play too many games for them.” John Glenn, (July 18, 1962) testimony before the […]
It’s not adultery if you murder your husband first and then…
Iran isn’t know for its compassion for women. These days, the public face of cruelty to women is Sakine Mohammadi Ashtiani, a woman who was accused of having an illicit relationship with two men while […]
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She was dumped like trash in the outdoor prison yard
Take a good look at Marcia Powell’s face; look at her eyes. She never knew her mother or father and at the age of 14 ran away from her adoptive home and spent the next […]
"Let's hope that the key conferences aren't when she's menstruating or something" – G. Gordon Liddy on Supreme Court Justice nominee Sonia Sotmayor
You spend your entire life scraping and scratching for every opportunity, a difficult task after your father suddenly dies when you are just nine years old and your mother is tasked with being the sole […]
MOM ALERT: DAUGHTERS LACK ROLE MODELS
My daughter’s sixth grade class participates in an annual tradition in her school called “The Wax Museum.” The children choose a person/character they would like to represent, and then dress up during a special day […]