Justice Sonia Sotomayor at Ain’t Too Proud

Tonight I wondered when the next time a celebrity would come see our show. It’s been a while since I’ve seen someone come backstage. Then…BAM!! Out of nowhere comes this woman. Justice Sonia Sotomayor. When we get done with the show, I walk from upstage then  make my way to the basement through stage left…

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Skip Child Support. Go to Jail. Lose Job. Repeat.

An excerpt from HERE: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/20/us/skip-child-support-go-to-jail-lose-job-repeat.html?smid=fb-share There is no national count of how many parents are incarcerated for failure to pay child support, and enforcement tactics vary from state to state, as do policies such as whether parents facing jail are given court-appointed lawyers. But in 2009, a survey in South Carolina found that one in eight…

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Historian Says Don’t ‘Sanitize’ How Our Government Created Ghettos

Fifty years after the repeal of Jim Crow, many African-Americans still live in segregated ghettos in the country’s metropolitan areas. Richard Rothstein, a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, has spent years studying the history of residential segregation in America. “We have a myth today that the ghettos in metropolitan areas around the country…

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The Great American Gender Debates of 2013

  A VERY interesting comment from the bottom of this article: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/12/the-great-american-gender-debates-of-2013/282419/ Mortarmouth Let’s see… gay marriage, women, women, women, women, women, women. Ad nauseum. All I see in most of these debates is a lot of bitching and moaning predicated on dubous feminist doctrine as to what’s “good for women”. Leaning in? Great! Opting out?…

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The Great American Gender Debates of 2013

  A VERY interesting comment from the bottom of this article: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/12/the-great-american-gender-debates-of-2013/282419/   Mortarmouth Let’s see… gay marriage, women, women, women, women, women, women. Ad nauseum. All I see in most of these debates is a lot of bitching and moaning predicated on dubous feminist doctrine as to what’s “good for women”. Leaning in? Great! Opting…

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Gender Neutrality

Why do parents attempt to fit a square peg in a round hole? When new parents try their best to force a child to be gender-neutral, I find it to be totally ridiculous. Boys and girls are inherently, fundamentally, and irreconcilably different. In this article in Newsweek, Jesse Ellison wrote: In 1978, the year I was born, feminists like my…

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