It's the same train of thought as the whole "if you don't want to get raped, don't dress like you're asking for it" train of thought, isn't it? In the end, no matted how skewed the power-schematic, the onus of preventing sexual impropriety is ALWAYS on the woman.

A close friend of mine was a summer paralympian & met Oscar once or twice. I remember talking to him during the London Game about how groundbreaking it was that Pistorious was running in the regular games. Friend immediately piped up that there was always something off about him, gave him a weird vibe (and keep in…

There's clearly no "War on Women" when that phrase means restricting access to birth control, abortion, etc but as soon as the GOP can spin it to mean the Obama Administration is "failing" at something THERE IS A WAR ON WOMEN!

Wicked late to the party, but my rabbit was pretty much the best rabbit ever. He loved to cuddle, was 100% liter boxed trained, and once we accidentally left him chilling in the living room overnight with zero issues. If anything, he looked pissed off that he had to sleep on the crappy living room carpet versus his…

I went to exactly 2: one that kinda didn't count because it was a bunch of dorky math nerds hanging out at their frat house, and one at the "major" frat on my campus, which i think is now shut down. I spent a total of 20 mins there before saying "yup, nope" as I was handed a cup of putrid pink jungle juice. I walked a…

I work at a local PBS station and I have had SO MUCH FUN promoting this! It's going to be epic

BUT HER HUSBAND TOLD HER HE NEEDED IT. Apparently for all the "long nights" you need caffeine (which clearly means Dr. Pepper) and as we know, Duggar girls MUST do EXACTLY what their husband says.

If anyone's wicked bored and wants to listen to a crazy man with a skullet discuss the history of diamond advertising I highly recommend this lecture by UMass Amherst Prof. Sut Jhaly:

Fun fact, when he was dating Bridget, they wanted to move to my town (her family lives about 20 mins away) but the mayor refused to let him build a helicopter pad after months of arguing about it. Considering I live in Massachusetts it was BIG DEAL. I kinda like to think that my town aided in the emancipation of…

I'm going to be the killjoy who points out that the Holyoke St. Patrick's Parade (2nd largest) was the first to allow the LGBT community to march last year! Damn NYC'ers, taking the credit.....

I'm from MA, my boyfriend's from NYC. This weekend we were near Boston and he ordered a hot coffee from Dunks with milk & sugar. On the cup they put 3 & 3...which is the standard in MA. He was absolutely flabbergasted, and keep in mind he LIVED here for 4+ years while attending college. Amazing the little things you…

In college, I lived in the dorm that was home to the 2-in-20 floor (basically, a floor designed specifically as a LGBTQ+ safe-space with specially trained RAs & gender neutral bathrooms). On one of the many drunken nights in the building, "Airplane" and his BFF declared that I was awesome and was allowed to refer to…

I listen to sports radio everyday at work, and this story was huge yesterday. The local station had a "Sports Illustrated" analyst on ( I think it was Peter King but not 100% sure) talking about the upcoming NFL season and obviously, this story came up. He said something along the lines of "every year at the annual…

One of my good friends from college took a gap year (this is a kid who scored a 1500 of 1600 on his SATs after doing coke the night before) and spent a year in I believe Jamaica living and working on a Jamaican farm, helping them institute a modern irrigation system. After graduation, he spent a year in the US, then…

It's really heartbreaking that in a developed nation, either the resources/support were not there for the mother to continue on the drug therapy (money, transportation, education, doctor willing to treat her like a human and explain why this is good for her child) or the unwillingness to trust in the system. While 200…

I read something about this yesterday (I can't remember where, sorry!) that basically said both mothers had access to the drugs to prevent HIV transmission, they just didn't use them. One of the mothers was given the drugs during labor to try and prevent transmission of HIV (I think the Mississippi baby...which is why…

This is my lovable pup Felix, telling me it's time to go for a walk.

I was watching at work & literally yelling at my computer screen. When my boss looked confused, I claimed I needed to know the outcome as it was work related....we had a segment airing with Kasey Bellamy's family that night. She was speechless and it was awesome.

Western MA'er ringing in....save for a very few convenience stores and one whole foods, you have to go to the liquor store to get booze around here. And on Sundays, they close at 6pm.

Humblebrag time...I actually got to be a "taste tester" for this before it hit shelves. I'm not a huge fan of almond so I was kinda meh about it at first, but we ended up using it between layers of a cake and it was awesome! It's definitely not as decadent as Nutella and the nut flavor's not quite as strong, but it's…