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Megan Carpentier
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@BAngieB: You got me. I should drink more coffee before Moe and I start. I hadn't though of Kriss Kross in years, though I did dismiss Nelson because they were part of a band (right?). Read more

@BAngieB: Actually, that was my first thought, sadly, but I was trying to think of someone more contemporary than Wham!... Read more

@FlownOver: Um, have you missed, like, the last 6 weeks of these? They're all exactly like this. Also, way to be really annoying. Read more

@apollonia666, OldUrbanProfessional: I do understand this, but it feels like a legal tactic rooted in a patriarchal system in which a woman is valued for her womanness and her value to a man and not as an individual, which, i dunno, could be part of the problem? Read more

@heylady: I can't quite manage to do that because of where mine is posted, but I can put mine it on Facebook if you want to friend me there and see it. Suffice it to say, I look pretty dorky, but at least my bangs had grown out. I had a worse one with glasses but I wasn't that brave. Read more

@blueberrypancake: The convenant marriage thing that Huckabee did is indeed designed to make it more difficult to get divorced. It doesn't replace the other marriage, but it does, if I recall correctly, require one to get counseling and live apart for longer to be able to get divorced. Read more

@Hops: It's kind of high pitched and not-at-all-serious-sounding but simultaneously not at all demure-little-woman sounding. Also, it's probably more the topics of conversation I tend to choose that Moe and I were referring to. Read more

Thanks, guys! If I'm not going to be a lobbyist, I might as well not be anonymous either. But that's a task for Monday. Tonight, I'm drinking. Read more

@fatmammycat: The difficulty with calling it a civil rights violation is that the standard understanding of one's civil rights in this country include things like the right to vote and equal protection under the law regardless of age, gender, race or disability (and, hopefully, sexual orientation one day). If you Read more

@SinisterRouge: Well, but they vote Republican and they are women. I just don't think it helps anyone to basically write this huge story about single female voters as though we're all going to march to the Hillary drum without even talking about the other candidates. Read more