The Republicans once again enjoyed the spotlight this week not for their sparkling rhetoric (maybe someday, Steve Doocy) but because of a hideous anti-Obamacare propaganda viral video, which depicts a young woman visiting a reproductive health clinic and getting sexually assaulted by Uncle Sam. [Scroll down to watch the full clip] The Maddow Blog wrote, … Continue reading
[This essay is originally hosted at LadyClever.com. Spolier alert: we were grateful to have made it out safely. We lost nothing, had generous family and caring friends to rely on, made new friends, and are happy in our new home. ] We knew we had to get out. My boyfriend was going to rush to the … Continue reading
[This essay first appeared at LadyClever.com.] “Did you think,” my boyfriend laughed, “that they’d think you came in to buy dish soap, but just decided to pick up a pregnancy test?” It was a valid point. But standing in line late that night at CVS, I couldn’t handle being that girl with a store brand box of pregnancy … Continue reading
[This essay was originally hosted at LadyClever.com] Counterculture king Joseph Gordon-Levitt makes everything look cool. And in the 2012 film Premium Rush, JoGo plays a bike messenger in bustling Manhattan, named Wilee. Other riders have a laugh at his expense because he’s nerdily fascinated with what’s colloquially known as his “fixie”: a fixed-gear, steel-frame bicycle … Continue reading
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