Drive Shaft – um, Whoops, Penis Shaft??? – on Aisle 14!

So tell me, if you’ve ever fantasized about sex in public, did you have a solo effort in mind? And if so, did you imagine just how mind-blowingly sexy it’d be to whack off in your local Walmart? That’s a scenario I’ve never seen in Cosmo. In fact, I think it might even invalidate Rule [...]

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Parenting Caturday

If you haven’t seen this sweet kitteh hugging her very young baby, you probably haven’t been on the Internet this week. Watch for the real hug about halfway through: If the hugging mama kitteh is already old hat, then you’ll want to proceed straight to these three clouded leopard cubs, born in the Nashville Zoo [...]

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The Cheekiest Student Email Ever – or, “Professor, Can You Spare a Prayer?”

No, I wasn’t raptured. Didja think I might be on the short list, with my oh-so-pious ways? Thank you for your prayers! But I guess I may carry more of a pious rep than I’d realized, judging from an email I received this week from a student; maybe he just noticed that I teach a [...]

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The Opposite of Oppositional Sexism

Yesterday, the Tiger asked me: “Mama, what’s the opposite of ‘boys and girls’?” Me: “Do you think there has to be an opposite? Well, some people think boys are the opposite of girls, but are they really?” Tiger: “No! They’re all just people.” Leave it to a seven-year-old to dismantle oppositional sexism.

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My Mother’s Day Wishlist

The kids are asleep, as of 11:55 p.m. EDT. I’ve got candles burning in the same tealight candelbra that did a job on Grey Kitty’s whiskers, lo those many years ago. I sit on the front porch as the rain cascades around me, letting me and my candles burn. Oh, and I’m wearing a bathrobe, [...]

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Osama’s Dead – Are We Feeling Safer Yet?

I’m surprised we haven’t heard more about the Hitler-Osama connection. Only a couple of the pundits I’ve read have remarked that the announcements of their deaths both came on May 1. When Hitler died, there was a little less evil in the world. The same is true for Osama. But the parallels don’t stretch much further. [...]

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Sunday Funnies: Bachmann-Palin Overdrive

“Oh, b-b-b-baby, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet …” The other day on Facebook, I told an old friend (who lives near Bachmann territory, woe is he) that the only reason to look forward to a Palin candidacy would be the chance to use the phrase that I already blew in the title of the post. [...]

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