I'm going! It feels a little weird that my first weekend trip away since becoming a mom will be to a fetish "Summer Camp"... now I just need bunk mates, so to speak, lol...

Me and my clay babies will be on WLTX's "Friends @ Five" tonight! Eep ( Read more... )

Men's Health magazine recently published a very pro-circ article full of misleading information that needs to be addressed (claiming the US has lower rates of HIV and STDs than noncircumcising Europe and Japan). In response to a reader's letter to the editor, saying something along the lines that just promoting condom usage and not circumcision is ( Read more... )

Here's a fun link with current American film stars who are intact (most actors born outside the US are intact, of course). I was pleasantly surprised that many of my favorites were here: http://www.circumstitions.com/Famous2a.htmlRead more... )

So I attended a "Yes We Carve!" party last night to carve a pumpkin to show my support for Obama. I was afraid it was a disaster when I looked at my work in daylight, but when I popped a candle in it and took it to a dark room, I have to admit I'm quite pleased ( Read more... )

Watch Sasha dance to techno! His best moves are about 50 seconds to a minute into the video. Excuse Aleks trying to nap on the couch and the general disarray of our currently baby-centered house. Poor child is going to have my inability to properly distinguish song lyrics, as instead of "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life," Sasha obviously hears, " ( Read more... )

This boy does not let up about Elmo... it's crazy because he's never even seen Sesame Street. Our neighbor has a Hokey Pokey Elmo, but that's it... it was love at first sight (ok, fear and attraction at first sight). He took a little plastic Elmo figurine from the gym daycare, and we walks around with that clutched in his hand most of the time. ( Read more... )

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(Except when the chorus goes "Low, low, low..." Sasha says, "No, no, no...")

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I love this. A brilliant rethinking of what it means to be a feminist, a woman, and especially a human being despite our culture. Considering that the US has the highest infant mortality of any industrialized nation, and that our adjusted incomes have not appreciably increased since the 1960's, despite the fact that we've moved from a single ( Read more... )