Sit. Stay. No Begging.
or, How to Not be a Complete Jerk at the Dog Park One of the highlights of my day is taking Henry (seen below at Capehart Dog Park in San Diego) to our local doggy park. The sun is setting, the breeze...
View ArticleLilly Ledbetter and the tough girl’s guide to negotiation
This morning Barack Obama signed into law the first legislation of his presidency, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, extending the statute of limitations on paycheck discrimination for men and women...
View ArticleBreakup 2.0
Breakups have never been simple affairs. No matter how quickly we try to tear off the Band-Aid, there’s the inevitable period of disentanglement between the initial conversation (“We have to...
View ArticleA question on comments
As maybe you’ve noticed, I don’t post comments on my own blog. Sometimes I’d like to, to clarify a point I made, respond to another commenter or just verbally bitch-slap somebody who I feel like...
View ArticleOffice kitchen wars, take three
The vigilante crackdown on disgusting kitchen slobs continues. This is a bit hopey-er than my guillotine, but I feel like Barack’s expression is a bit menacing. As if he’s saying, ‘Don’t make...
View ArticleSteve Harvey wishes you weren’t such a slut
So I was browsing through Oprah.com yesterday, for, uh, RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY, and I came across O’s interview with one of the original Kings of Comedy, Steve Harvey. Being someone who occasionally...
View ArticleIn defense of Twitter
Recently, a colleague stopped following me on Twitter because, he says, keeping up with my feed is “emotionally exhausting.†Others have panned the practice as banal, self-indulgent, time-consuming...
View ArticleThe cow is not for sale.
I don’t generally write much about “the sex†in this space, aside from the occasional Chuck Grassley/boobies joke, because, among other reasons, several of my colleagues—and, god knows, by this...
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