Recently, 14-year-old Julia Bluhm presented editors at Seventeen Magazine with a petition signed by close to 25,000, requesting that the magazine start publishing just one non-Photoshopped spread per issue. In response, Editor Ann Shoket scheduled a personal meeting with Bluhm, showered her with praise for her efforts, then essentially ignored the part where Bluhm had [...]
Three years ago, we got some terrible news from our vet about my cat, Sesame. He was dying. Kidney disease. No way to stop it, and no cure. It’s very sad; the news was difficult to take. Except three years later . . . he lives! And here’s the part that makes me a bad [...]
It’s a little-known fact that this week is National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week. And even if you had heard that, you probably wondered just what the heck that is. It’s hug a 911 dispatcher week! I don’t know how we came to occupy an entire week of our very own, but we do like the [...]
Having lost ten pounds after my first successful diet at age eleven, I happily paraded my thinner self in front of my mom and grandpa in the family kitchen and announced my success. “Good for you,” my grandpa told me at the time. “You were getting a little heavy.” I was . . . wha? [...]
I don’t generally go around saying how proud I am to be a Minnesotan, especially after the Jesse years, but today I’m positively bursting my buttons over a group of knitters from my very own home town of St. Paul. Lead by Annie Modesitt (you betcha!), this group of middle-aged, mild-mannered, hotdish-loving Minnesota women founded [...]
Rick Santorum recently announced a “war against porn,” Rush Limbaugh’s war against “sluts” is well-documented, and the GOP’s war against birth control continues. We are about to pick the leader of this great democracy for the next four years, and it seems like all anybody wants to talk about is getting laid. I’m pro-sex. Truly. [...]
Would you trade your current IQ for bigger boobs? Apparently, one-third of women ages 18-25 said they would. A study conducted by a marketing company in the U.K. also reported recently that 41 percent of women this age would choose big boobs over a high IQ. Furthermore, 57 percent of the young women surveyed believed [...]
