Washing & Ironing: How To Iron A Shirt This is a video I watched just recently, after a life time of bribing other people to iron my shirts for me.  It started in student Congress, circa age 15.  Before that I’d gotten my grandmother or mother to iron them, though the times I needed an ironed shirt were few & far between.  Since then I’ve bribed roomates, travelmates, and girlfriends...

Tomorrow night Mariah & I have a sitter, and we’re both going to a benefit concert.  The people organizing it are friends of ours, and in one of the bands playing (the Pistils).  Moreover, it’s to raise money for some seriously cool women’s issues causes, including Planned Parenthood and a Rock n’ Roll camp for young girls. It’s called Pick n’ Bitch How cool is that?...

I first got into blogging in 2003, when a group I was a member of started a group blog…  and I took the leap from there to reading political blogs early on. The first blog I started reading on a daily basis, and even posting comments and diaries on, was called My Due Dillegence, and there were primarily three writers who I read:  Jerome Armstrong, Chris Bowers, and Matt Stoller — especially those last...

I’m going to be doing some work helping out one of my favorite organizations around:  Planned Parenthood of Central NC. I was invited to a meeting with them the other day, and said something along the lines of: As someone who majored in Women’s Studies in college, being asked by Planned Parenthood to come give some advice… it feels a bit like being asked by the Chicago Whitesox to come show them...