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What I DON’T Want for the Holidays

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Lots of people are busy making lists of what they want for the holidays. Let me tell you what I DON’T want for the holidays: * “Funny” movies about accidental pregnancy. Earlier this year it was Knocked Up. This weekend it will be Juno. I don’t care if these movies are funny, quirky, or well-made. Now that our government is officially pro-marriage and anti-contraception, anything that excuses or normalizes unplanned pregnancy is unforgivable escapism or a political crime. Being drunk is no excuse for “accidents”; we’re ALL drunk when it comes to sex. * Endless “male-female” advice columns. Do women…

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Lick A Dog’s Butt, Go To Jail

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If you don’t already watch the Sarah Silverman Show, stop reading this and go to www.ComedyCentral.com to see when it’s on next, and watch whatever episode is playing. The half-hour show is very funny, very smart, and totally fearless. In its pursuit of tackling hypocrisy, idiocy, and plain human foibles, it holds back nothing. A recent episode, for example, had Sarah’s character (named Sarah) betting a black man that anti-Semitism was worse than racism. Another had Sarah joining this nice group of suburban women who wanted to stop murder—until she found out they were an anti-choice group who demanded she…

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Women Who Diss Women Who Wax

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Some women get tattoos or nipple rings, or bleach their anuses or shave their pubic hair, for the wrong reasons—say, pressure from a boyfriend, or a belief that their bodies are ugly or non-feminine. Some reasons aren’t wrong, just inane—“I dunno, we were all drunk and Mary did it, so I figured what the hell.” But plenty of women do this stuff because they want to—it feels good, or they think it looks good, it makes them feel sexy, it’s a form of rebellion, their sex partner likes it, it makes wearing a thong easier, whatever. Unfortunately, a rising chorus…

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If I Say “Blowjob,” Will I See Dental Floss?

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You’ve probably had the experience of going to Amazon.com and receiving suggestions about what you might enjoy next, given what you recently purchased. You like Frank Sinatra? Try Ella or Duke. You bought Season Three of American Idol? Here’s 10% off on a lobotomy. But now that’s so Old Thing. The Next New Thing is an internet phone service that will be completely free—in exchange for sending you ads while you talk. Special ads related to what you’re discussing on the phone at that very moment. As with Skype, consumers plug a headset and microphone into their computers, dial a…

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Memo to Southwest Air: Women’s Bodies Are OK

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If you fly, of course you hate to fly. As if air travel isn’t repulsive enough these days, Southwest Airlines has found a new way to make passengers angry. Southwest tried to boot a shapely 23-year-old college student off a flight recently because one person complained about the way she was dressed. A customer “service” (there’s an oxymoron) supervisor named Keith told San Diego passenger Kyla Ebbert that her miniskirt, high-heel sandals, and sweater-over-tank top (over a bra) was “inappropriate” for a family airline. After berating the woman and telling her to go home, change, and catch a later flight,…

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When Language Is More Important Than War

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Sixteen million Americans fought in WWII. A half-million of them died in it. That’s equal to the entire population of Washington, DC. Or of Wyoming. Very few of those 16,000,000 are still alive, and a dwindling number of Americans actually knows one of them. To create and preserve a record of what actually happened, Ken Burns has made a 14-hour documentary for PBS. It has exactly four instances of words you might hear—or say—if someone were trying to kill you. The Parents Television Council plans to scour those fourteen hours for the four words they don’t want anyone to say…

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