At the Momfy Blog, we pride ourselves on asking the tough questions and delving into the issues that matter for our loyal readers: in today’s post you will be forced to look deep inside yourself and answer a straightforward yet vexing question. Here’s the poll: Do you choose Eternal Happiness or a clean kitchen? We probably … Continue reading »
When the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) – the definitive guide to diagnostic criteria used by U.S. mental health professionals – is updated next May (for the first time in 13 years) one of the new conditions in consideration to be among its pages is hypersexual disorder (HD). Known informally, if not entirely accurately, as “sex addiction,” HD’s inclusion in the … Continue reading »
The STOP SOPA / NO on SOPA / NO on PIPA movement has become an unprecedented online show of solidarity, demonstrating to Congress that individuals working together are just as influential as well-funded corporate interests when we put our minds to it. If you know about SOPA or PIPA but don’t know how you can make … Continue reading »
This is a letter I sent to Senator Al Franken on 12 January 2012. I live in Minnesota, the state for which Franken is a senator. In 2008, I was a campaign activist for Al Franken’s senate campaign, operating volunteer call operations on behalf of his campaign and canvassing door-to-door to solicit votes on his … Continue reading »
[Christopher Hitchens was and is one of my favorite writers of all time... I stand in awe of his courage as a thinker; his intolerance for hypocrisy; his willingness to challenge long-standing assumptions; his commitment to truth, logic, intellect; and perhaps most of all, his ability and unrelenting determination to speak truth to power. -- Jonathan … Continue reading »
By Joe Myxter, travel editor: msnbc.com A passenger on a US Airways flight said he was forced to stand for seven hours after he was squeezed out of his seat by an obese man sitting next to him. “I didn’t fly from Alaska to Philadelphia on Flight 901,” Arthur Berkowitz told Christopher Elliott, a consumer advocate who … Continue reading »
From Michael Gershon’s blog at The Washington Post online… Michele Bachmann is a candidate of whopping internal contradictions. Earlier this month, I heard the Minnesota congresswoman give her Christian testimony at a church service in Osceola, Iowa. She told the story of her father leaving her mother, of the economic struggles her family faced, … Continue reading »
A central Texas gun dealer ran radio ads advising “Socialist” liberals, those who voted for President Barack Obama, Arabs and Muslims that they need not apply for his concealed gun license class. Crockett Keller, who owns Keller’s Riverside Store, ran the ads on the radio station in his rural hometown of Mason, Texas, which is … Continue reading »
Following eight months of consumer testing, J.P. Morgan Chase [JPM] has decided that it won’t charge customers who use their debit cards to make purchases… J.P. Morgan joins U.S. Bancorp [USB], Citigroup Inc. [C], PNC Financial Services Group Inc. [PNC], KeyCorp [KEY] and other large banks that have said in recent days that they won’t … Continue reading »
