* The new Hillary Clinton, New York Senator-to-be Kirsten Gillibrand, already has jealous Congressional wolves circling her freshly appointed carcass in the hopes of gaining the seat that is not yet officially hers, in 2010 [via Newsday].
* The New gay tells President Obama what to do. TNG was also nice enough to profile the Sexist [...]
For today's Dear Prudence, Slate's advice column, Prudie a.k.a. Emily Yoffe takes on a doozy: A man who carried on a years-long affair with his stepmother and now struggles with how to tell his father. The son, 15 years his stepmother's junior, began sleeping with her when he was 17 years old, but continued the [...]
* Chelsea Schilling of WorldNetDaily—which appears to be some sort of Ann Coulter-9/11-Real America news outfit—reports on former Washington City Paper staffer John Cloud's condemnation of Barack Obama as a "bigot" and a "problem for gays" following Obama's Rick Warren nod. A "homosexual" reporter versus our terrorist communist Leader? This is like some sort of [...]
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Well, hello, there. Sorry if things have been sparse here as of late. I awoke yesterday with peculiarly large lymph nodes and inner ears that seem to have gone scuba diving without my permission. But I'm hopping off to one ye olde urgent care center cold & flu mill this morning, where a medical doctor [...]
* Daily Intel has some answers on why Alex Kuczynski's New York Times spread on her experience with a surrogate mother made her out to be a "vain," "self-centered" "Lady of the Manor" (really, check out the photo that ran with the story, it's a doozy). From NYT Public Editor Clark Hoyt's column:
Kuczynski, who said [...]
Kelly McEvers, who wrote a great series for Slate about her attempts—and failures—at finding pirates in the Strait of Malacca, chatted online today at the Washington Post about her experience getting the story. She had an interesting comment about the gender politics of reporting from the sea. Who has the advantage in locating swashbucklers—men or [...]
* The New Gay reveals an "an exciting new way to internalize homophobia": It's not gay, it's g0y! G0ys (pictured) hate anal sex, femininity, and gay dudes, but love God and casually bro-ing out with other dudes and blowing them. And they spell their sexuality with a zero. Sign up here!
* Slate tapes an interview [...]
Slate's year-old female blog, the wonderful XX Factor, will come of age this spring when it blossoms into a beautiful full-fledged Web 'zine. The project shall be known henceforth as Double X, and those who want to offer up ideas, writers, or a managing editor can make their case at doublex.slate@gmail.com. A full description [...]
Slate's Bonnie Goldstein has an essay about the middle-aged career woman who's financed her own life but still wishes that she could inherit a little somethin' somethin' from her fathers when he dies. I found the piece pretty alien for a few reasons:
- By wishing they would fork over the cash at their death bed, [...]
* New Columbia Heights reports on a rash of violence that hit an underground Petworth brothel this month. According to an Examiner piece on one incident, wherein a robber lost his thumb to a machete-wielding victim after trying to lift cash from the bordello and gambling house. Earlier, two men were shot inside the brothel, [...]
