Editor’s note: We began to discuss the name issue in a previous comment thread; I thought this would make a great topic for discussion. Thanks, Salie, for throwing it out there. I’ve also added a poll. By popular demand ; ) A diary on post marital naming practices. This topic is a slight bending of […] Continue reading →

posting this for a friend – I hope that’s okay! I know many of you are in CA. Hi all. I wanted to share about a friend of mine, who I met at church. She is lesbian and is embarking on an amazing journey. She is WALKING from San Diego to San Francisco to raise […] Continue reading →

that damnable netscape popup actually contained something interesting today – who knew?http://channels.netscape.com/… kids, parents, and an interaction effect, oh my!the write up: You’re in the grocery store, mindlessly stocking your cart. You notice a child–all alone and wandering down the aisle. Get a good look at that kid’s parents and chances are they’re ugly. At […] Continue reading →

I’m assuming pretty widespread knowledge of Senator Bill Napoli’s depiction of what a “legitimate exception” to the SD abortion ban would be: A real-life description to me would be a rape victim, brutally raped, savaged. The girl was a virgin. She was religious. She planned on saving her virginity until she was married. She was […] Continue reading →

as though women required evidence that our worth is calculated financially, and only in reference to our vaue to men, Forbes has covered a paper appearing in the Journal of Political Economy that caculates the value of prostitutes – in direct comparison with wives. I can’t even work up feigned surprise that the theories of […] Continue reading →