In lieu of Mother’s Day, Time Magazine has a feature on people’s favorite pop culture moms. Props to mentioning the ladies from The Joy Luck Club — both book and movie are a long-time guilty pleasure — and Dumbo’s mommy, whose cuddling scene makes me cry a little every time I watch it.
Except for [...]
Lifted from the comments, this short history lesson by the ever-brilliant La Lubu:
Here’s a thought: reinterpretation. Take this quote for example, “In 1999 congressional testimony, Isabel Sawhill of the Brookings Institution said that the increase in single-parent families—mostly due to unwed motherhood in the past few decades—”can account for virtually all of the increase in [...]
Judging from her latest piece, Emily Yoffe, Slate’s advice columnist, is going after Dear Abby’s job. Incensed that Dear Abby stole her advice thunder by insisting that the rape of one man’s sleeping wife is obviously a big ol’ lie, Yoffe tried to up the ante by writing a concern troll piece on single [...]
Good night/
Don’t let the bed bugs bite/
But if they do/
Take your shoe/
And beat them ’til they’re black and blue
[/ And smell like poo (optional)]
Obviously the big news of the day is the announcement by Jamie Lynn Spears, little sister of Britney, that she is pregnant. (See also: The Cleaver and Dadsmacker) The sixteen-year-old star of Nickelodeon’s “Zoey 101,” in which my son is thankfully completely disinterested, meaning that I’ve never seen it, made the announcement today, [...]
Auguste passed along this sad, bittersweet comic about a mother’s addiction to Animal Crossing. Maybe it’s my sour mood, but this little webcomic made me weep a little.
Sometimes a slang term pops into the cultural sphere that is so useful it crawls under the brainskin, no matter the historical stigma implied. For me this term is “baby daddy.” How else do you describe a relationship between you and a guy with whom you are no longer involved, to whom you [...]
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