By Richard Black of The Unfit Father Hello, my name is Richard Black. I’m running for President, and I’d like your help in making America pretty good again. I’m also running because I’ve got a lot of time on my hands, which really can’t be said for my opponents. My […]
Politics/Community
How Brock Turner Can Stay Safe Now That He’s Free
By Leslie Gaar of Pails & Fires Dear Brock Turner, I imagine you must be feeling a little nervous after having been released from jail recently. And with good reason: you served only half of a sentence that already fell woefully short of what any decent person would consider acceptable […]
Hillary’s Humans of New York Picture Is Going Viral for All the Right Reasons
By Joanna McClanahan of Ramblin’ Mama Humans of New York, a popular Facebook photo blog, ran a photo of Hillary Clinton yesterday which is going viral. The photo included the presidential candidate’s story of taking her admissions test at Harvard and how her life experiences have shaped the person she […]
Republican Candidate Told Journalist He Hoped She Got Raped Because Why The F**k Not
When journalist and Daily Beast staff writer Olivia Nuzzi shared an article on her professional Facebook on Labor Day, she expected to receive some backlash because the article was about Donald Trump. Because the article was contentious, and because, according to Nuzzi, her “Facebook page is a cesspool of trolls […]
An Open Letter to My Black Sons About Racism
By Sheila Qualls of Real Moms Don’t Judge… We Just Suggest Dear sons: I fear I’ve failed you by teaching you skin color doesn’t matter . . . when clearly it does. I fear I haven’t prepared you for this current racial chaos. I fear I’ve been naive. Skin color does […]
My Trip to the Gun Store
By Carrie Tinsley of Carrie On Y’all I can make this funny, I thought. Sure, I’m a little scared, but I’ll be okay. The nervous-mother-of-three in the gun store making sarcastic observations just has to be comical. In early June — before the nightmare mass shooting in Orlando, before the […]
What Brock Turner’s Release Means for Parents
By Whitney Fleming of Playdates on Fridays Brock Turner gets released from jail Friday, September 2, 2016, after serving three months in Santa Clara County jail. For those of you not familiar, Mr. Turner, a scholar athlete and Olympic swimming hopeful, was convicted in March of three felony counts: assault with […]
Colin Kaepernick: Un-American or True American?
Colin Kaepernick, quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, is the new John Carlos or Tommie Smith of 1968. Carlos and Smith raised a fist in support of the Black Power movement during the playing of our national anthem at the Olympic Games that year. Two athletes who benefited from the rights […]