Category: elsewhere

Stigma, Weed, and Taxes (Hold On To Your Hats)

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Recently, LA city voters passed a proposition that will shut down roughly one thousand law-abiding, tax-paying businesses in its greater metro area. Business which contributed roughly 2.5 Million dollars to the local economy in taxes ALONE over the past year, not to mention the contributions made via payroll, mortgage/rents, suppliers, and the like. As you may know, Los Angeles is grossly… Read more →

How The WSJ Took A Giant Dump On Women

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{Image via The Wall Street Journal.} {I know, right?} It’s weird, I recently wrote a piece about cursing and motherhood and yet, here I am sitting down to write THIS piece and all I can think of are expletives and whatever the opposite of a euphemism is. Oh, Wall Street Journal, SHAME ON YOU. This morning the Wall Street Journal… Read more →

This Is Why Our Collective Body Image Is In The Shitter.

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Kelsey is a dancer for the OKC Thunder Girls with an enviable physique. But this week, she’s not getting press for her moves between quarters. Rather, she’s the subject of ridicule by the CBS Houston (who alleges that they’re simply reporting the ‘word on the streets of OKC’) for being too chunky to cheer. Or is she. Claire Crawford, the… Read more →

“Moms Who Drink And Swear”: Can We Talk About This Modern Mom As Frat Boy Image?

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This month, Nicole Knepper released her hilarious book “Moms Who Drink And Swear” based on her blog of the same name. It’s insanely funny, which isn’t surprising if you’ve read Nicole before. But it also got me self-reflecting a bit. As I looked at her book sitting a top a pile on my nightstand of other recent releases in its… Read more →

Casual Fridays: Blogging Life Is Hard And I’m Freaking Exhausted.

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{Molly Ringwald photographed by Andy Warhol, Circo 1985… …and I’m pretty sure that’s The Bangles lead singer Suzanna Hoffs on the left.} This week has done me in good. I’m wearing a dark blue sweatshirt and my favorite lounge pants that Scott gave me for Christmas the year we got married, but I can’t take a picture for you right… Read more →