Not My Mother’s Blog

“I have many, many votes and it’s been consistent. And I’ve got a consistent zero from NARAL throughout all those years. … My record is clear.” He has also bragged to the media that his record has “been pro-life, unchanging and unwavering.”
Who said it?
That would be McCain, who still thinks he can skate into the [...]

A post at Our Bodies Our Blog reminded me forcefully of my own experiences as a breastfeeding mom in the early 80s. Christine C. referenced this commentary by Aisha Qaasim at womensEnews. Qaasim talks about breastfeeding her two month old daughter and hearing a nearby woman loudly state “That is the most disgusting thing I [...]

Take 1 – the new Wal*Mart back to school ad (girl’s version)
Mom is sitting in the back of a classroom watching as teen boy grabs his laptop and heads for the front of the classroom. In the voice over, she talks about her son starting out in a new school, how she’d love to be [...]

One of my regular gigs is compiling and following up on stories about current asbestos exposure levels,which is how I started reading the SF Bay View. This landed in my mailbox today, and I’m passing the word along – the Bay View is currently not available in print because of funding and budget problems. If [...]

testing remote posting from scribefire

so we uploaded to wp 2.6 and what should have been a twenty minute process has taken all day. Lucky me – I actually took the time to back -everything- up. I usually trust WordPress so much that I don’t bother. Thank gut instincts that wasn’t the case today.

So that means if a person hasn’t seen a range of women’s genitals in real life there’s no way s/he is going to know what real women’s genitals look like. Everyone then starts to think all genitals should look like the airbrushed ones – which are really just frauds, and not half so interesting or [...]

Kudos to Ebony whose marketing chutzpah is matched only by the utter gorgeousness of the covers that they’re pimping. I can just see the editors sitting around with the photos of the 25 ultra cool brothers going “Obama? Come on, gotta be Obama.. he’s the most marketable brother across the media this year.. yeah, [...]

If you’re trying to take off weight, buy a diary. Researchers at Kaiser Permanente’s Center for Health Research in Portland have found that dieters who write down everything they eat lose twice as much weight as those who don’t. The study involved 1,685 men and women whose average age was 55. The group was also [...]

So I wandered by Huffington to see if there was any commentary there yet about Jesse Helms passing (and may eternity be kinder to him than he was to our world) and instead fell down the Old Guard vs. New Wave feminist rabbit hole. The quick recap:
Lizz Winstead, co-creator of the Daily Show, hosts a [...]

Is junk media making you sick??? Sound bytes are meant to be appetizers, teasers to whet your appetite for the full story. They were never meant to fulfill all of your daily requirements for real information. Unfortunately, Big Media seems intent on force-feeding us a diet of nothing but snack food. We’re being fed news [...]