Open Letter to Kenny Santucci and Evan Starkman

Dear Kenny and Evan, You might want to consider a new legal strategy. Having your lawyer, Usman Shaikh, Esq., send me a Cease and Desist Notice (see below) might not have been your best course of action. Here’s why: There’s this thing called “the Streisand Effect,” and it basically means that the more you try…

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Injustice is my Bitch

Let me tell you a little something about me. When I was a kid, (8ish) I gave my birthday money to Greenpeace. I remember doing it–we were at a restaurant, and on my way to the restroom I noticed a little donation box for the whale-saving organization. I dropped in my crisp fiver and went…

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Let the Toothbrushes Fall Where They May

On August 1, 2013, I received the following email in response to my post titled, MTV and Rape Culture:   Dear Ms. Garner: I represent Kenneth Santucci and Evan Starkman. It has been brought to my attention that an article on your website dated October 26, 2012 contains inaccurate and/or incomplete information relating to my…

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May All be Free

All beings deserve to be free. Yep, even douche-bags.* Although, I’m in full support of correcting or shunning them. But the truth is, if people prone to douche-bagism were more internally free, they would be less externally douchey. When we are free, really free in our minds and hearts, we have nothing to prove, nothing…

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Doing Gratitude All Wrong

Hard to believe I could screw up being grateful, right? I was. For years I’ve dipped in and out of doing gratitude lists. Sometimes I’d do a list of 100, others I’d come up with 5 things a day. The problem is that on days when it was hard, I’d cop out and write things like,…

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