It all started . . . oh hell, I honestly don’t know when it all started. Yesterday, maybe? It all started . . . in a bar somewhere? Wait, I’m getting ahead of myself, because where it all really started was on my Facebook page. I’m on it a lot. Oh crap, I’ll go ahead and admit it. I’m on in so much that a friend started humming The Eagles “Hotel California” to me and some other friends last night: [...]
Are we, as a society, better off as a result of Valentine’s Day? Does the expectation of receiving gifts and expressions of romantic love make us better humans? Is buying chocolates, jewelry or formulaic cards the best way to pursue happiness? Does another trinket or even mind-bendingly expensive piece of jewelry really make you better off than you were a day ago? I reckon the answer is a resounding No. We don’t need a holiday to remind us to love [...]
Lego has come out with a new line of gender-specific toys and it has enraged a group of women who collected more than 1,000 signatures overnight to protest it, according to an article in the New York Daily News.[1] The girl-themed Lego sets offer curvy figurines, a hot tub, beauty parlor and a rash of pink colors. Construction sets include: an inventor’s workshop, a splash pool, a hot convertible, a design studio and a dog show. Dana Edell, head of [...]
What if Santa is a woman? What if the idiotic Elf on the Shelf is a girl named Julie instead of a boy named Jack? What if Mary Magdalene was the 13th Apostle? Sigh, I apologize for this last question, I really do, but I can’t help it: what if God is a Goddess? Did I start asking these questions this morning? No, of course not. I raised my hand in Honors Comparative Religion and asked a few questions [...]