Not My Mother’s Blog

Thank you Mary C. Curtis for writing it down. In an article titled The Loud Silence of Feminists, published in the Charlotte Observer, Curtis articulates her own, and my frustration at white women for their lack of support for Michelle Obama in the siege of negative media that has been thrown at her since Hilary [...]

I’m in love with TV this summer. How could I not be? Now that TNT’s added Dr. Temperance Brennan to their lineup and USA has countered with Mary Shannon, I’ve got a full house of smart, sassy, quirky, independent women who are not twenty-something hot babes… but are still plenty steamy. Here’s my picks [...]

So I’m watching Dr. Who because the kids happen to love the show and I catch the most delightful little bit of dialog between Dr. Who and a complete blowhard of a ‘master of the house’.
Dr. Who: And why aren’t the flags flying here, sir?
Man (to his wife): There you see, I told you. Get [...]

I don’t spend a lot of time at the pediatrician’s anymore – not since my kids stopped running into slides at the playground (five stitches in the chin), falling off of front porches (broken wrist), and rolling down hills (double arm fracture with splintered bones AND poison ivy) – so I’d forgotten the kinds of [...]

Not even two months since the Sean Bell verdict, young New Yorkers, the Hip Hop Generation, and hell… anyone who has the good sense to look around, has another reason not to trust the notorious NYPD. According to Rosa Clemente, on Defuse News:
Bronx Hip Hop Heros Rodstarz & G1 were walking down the street and
observed [...]

As if I wasn’t already completely overwhelmed by the lack of real issues being discussed in the “mainstream” media, now we have to contend with the assumed Democratic candidate and his wife on the cover of glorified tabloids next to Angelina Jolie’s pregnancy sex?

The Huffington Post reports that Michelle and Barack Obama will grace the [...]

McCain announced Tuesday that he favors lifting the ban on offshore drilling and allowing states to decide whether or not to allow oil drilling offshore. Bush is expected to ask Congress today to lift the offshore drilling ban. Quotable quotes from both sides of the issue from the CNN.com story:
¥McCain said:

“I’m all for recycling [...]

I love me my coffee, so this article was happy news for me. According to a new study, drinking two to three cups of coffee a day may decrease my risk of dying of heart disease by up to 25%, and my risk of dying from a cause other than cancer or heart disease by [...]

The bottom line is our society does not yet provide women in the workplace with the type of social supports, like high-quality subsidized child care or extended parental leave, that allows them to fully go for it, and the impact this has on the scope and depth of a career is profound. Right or wrong, [...]

Absentee Daddies Obama delivered a message in his Father’s Day address that’s not a new one – and I found it interesting to note that the NYT acknowledged that it’s a message that most white candidates could not address without raising ire in the black community.
The speech was striking for its setting, and in [...]

They won the right to marry in Massachusetts… but Margaret Chambers and Cassandra Ormiston, who were married in 2004 in Massachusetts can’t get a divorce in Rhode Island, where they live. The Rhode Island Supreme Court ruled last year that the family court couldn’t grant a divorce to the couple because the state only recognizes [...]