I won an award. It is a major award!
I am linking this from my friend Amy’s blog (lucysfootball.com) because I am just that lazy. I am sorry I have been neglecting you, personal blog. I love you, I really do. But I have been working very...
View ArticleHow I feel about atheists faith-baiting on Twitter: Stop it.
It’s never been any secret that I think poorly of the tendency of some atheists to combat theists head-on. Recently, a number of atheist Twitter users were blocked/banned/something or another for...
View ArticleThoughts on being a big sister, and then not being one.
If there’s a worse time of the year to have the cloud of a death anniversary hanging over you than mid-Februrary in the northern hemisphere, I’m not sure when it would be. All of the feel-good winter...
View ArticleHow to explain science using Law & Order.
So, yesterday I got into a YouTube comment argument (yes, I KNOW, I know, I shouldn’t be in YouTube comments in the first place, much less engaging anybody there) with someone about the non-link...
View ArticleWhat I don’t understand about the trans bathroom uproar.
Okay, I seriously love how that guy is holding the baby at arms’ length. It must have dropped a bomb in that diaper. This over-wrought “controversy” pops up from time to time: which bathroom, exactly,...
View ArticleThis is not America.
Until very recently, I was under the impression that I lived in the United States of America. I mean, my address is in the United States of America. Were I to have a passport, it would label me boldly...
View ArticleBut I’m trying, Ringo. I’m trying real hard to be the shepherd.
(Preface: It’s been awhile since I’ve written about what’s going on with me, job-wise.. I have a job now in a mall kiosk where we change watch batteries and such. Also, two personal blog posts in one...
View ArticleSex, U.S.A.: How girls are fucked before we ever get screwed.
I’ve been chewing on the idea of writing an essay about young women and sexuality for a long time now. The Steubenville rape case brought some of the ideas I’ve back-burnered up to a simmer; it’s been...
View ArticleYou can be made faceless, your fingerprints removed.
I didn’t grow up here, but my hometown is now Columbus, Ohio. I could give you a hundred reasons (only slightly hyperbole, there) why I can’t abide being from Owensboro, Kentucky. None of those reasons...
View ArticleFood Challenge: A month of real food.
Oh em gee, look how much fun this guy is having drinking The Dew. Today, when I left work, I was thirsty as hell. I was also tired as hell, and didn’t feel like making any extra stops (ie, McDonald’s,...
View ArticleReal Food Month: My plans for the first five days.
Look at this guy. He is beckoning me to healthy food. Beckoning. I’ve been thinking about how I want to attack real food month. Like I have said elsewhere, (in the previous post, on Facebook, and on...
View ArticleReal food month begins
We took an impromptu trip out of town this weekend, which meant that I was ill-prepared for today. For breakfast/lunch (I slept late), I ended up eating some wrinkly grapes and three tomatoes. I have...
View Article11 ways people are jerks when shopping.
The phrase “the customer is always right” is bandied around in a number of ways that may make it seem like… well… whatever the customer does, that is always right. Originally, that phrase was...
View ArticleThat time I had a car accident and I was too “wtf” to even be mad about it.
My poor, poor abused car. So, for starters, if this information is new to you, I AM FINE. I did not at all get hurt. I was not going much more than 25 mph (if over at all, but let’s be real, I could...
View ArticleWhy Bryant Miller should be the new @ColumbusYelp community manager.
Recently, our beloved Community Manager, Christina, stepped down from her position. (We’ll miss you, Christina!) The position of Columbus Community Manager is a spot that, in my mind, only one person...
View ArticleDear Parents With Special Needs Children
I wanted to title this post, “Dear Parents With Special Needs Children Who Are Active In Their Children’s Lives and Advocate For Their Kids”, but that was a little too long. Rest assured, though, this...
View ArticleWhy selfies deserve defense and click-bait is slowly ruining everything that...
OH SHIT IT IS A SELFIE, RUNNNN Writing a post about selfies was definitely not my intention. To be perfectly honest, I didn’t even read the original goddamn post that got everyone in an uproar. I...
View ArticleCreationists have more in common with toddlers than with scientists.
Mom leaves little Billy alone for just a few moments in the kitchen–someone has come to the door, maybe, or the laundry needs to be stuffed into the dryer. When she comes back, the lid is askew on the...
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