Update: You can carry on with hating Sean Avery without feeling even the slightest twinge of guilt for snarking at him. The attention whoring douchebag that hockey fans love to hate is, as advertised, a straight attention whoring douchebag who was just not-denying rumors because that’s what attention whores do, try to get attention. Like […]
Author Archives: Kathryn Brightbill
An open letter to Michael Farris and ParentalRights.org
Dear Michael Farris, For the last week you have had your supporters bombarding the German embassy with calls, emails, and Facebook comments about the German homeschooling family who lost custody of their children. You have demonstrated your ability to motivate thousands of your American supporters to come to the aid of parents in other countries. […]
Is it just me or is the crow with a top hat and cane a minstrel show reference? And if so, why is Tootsie making candy in 2013 that still has that reference?
Was reading the book “Covering” by Kenji Yoshido when I came across this line about “closet fans of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.” Man, we really can’t get respect. @raysbaseball
Nerdy Homeschooler
Note: I wrote the following for Homeschooling Positives Week on Homeschooler’s Anonymous. *** I’m a nerd, a geek, though I suppose not enough of one to get caught up in the arguments over which of those terms is positive and which one is the insult. I was a female computer geek back before there were enough of us […]
In which TLC gives fundamentalist Mormon polygamists a half hour to lecture on Purity Culture
The TLC reality show Sister Wives has always been a guilty pleasure show of mine. Don’t ask me why, I can’t explain it, especially since my reality TV viewing preferences generally run towards the kind of over-the-top camp that Tyra Banks gives us with America’s Next Top Model. This week they delved into purity culture […]
Another Disney starlet uses the VMAs to shed wholesome image, rinse, repeat
Is American culture this gullible that hardly anybody seems to realize that Miley Cyrus’ VMA performance was intentionally provocative for the same reason that generations of pop tarts before her went and did “controversial” VMA performances? Just like Britney Spears and Christina Aguliera raunched it up at the VMAs when they were trying to move […]
Wichita anti-abortion activists need to stop calling themselves “pro-life”
If you call yourself “pro-life” you need to actually be just that–pro life. As in, you don’t support killing people. As in, you believe in a culture of life, not one of death. That you care about the lives of more than just those who are yet to be born. You know what it doesn’t […]
Why I can’t even get mad about The Gospel Coalition’s gay marriage and “gag reflex” piece
The Gospel Coalition, a site whose relevance to the Christian community and legitimacy as a voice for Christianity and the Gospel should already be called into doubt by their continued association with the abuse-covering-up C.J. Mahaney of Sovereign Grace Ministries, ran a piece by Thabiti Anyabwile titled The Importance of Your Gag Reflex When Discussing Homosexuality and “Gay […]
HSLDA, the Parental Rights Amendment, and Enabling Child Abusers
I’m sick, I’m really sick. When I wrote back in May about what I suspected was a legal strategy by HSLDA to make homeschooling a fundamental right, I said that I hoped I was wrong. I hoped that HSLDA’s end game wasn’t giving parents the right to do almost anything to their children short of […]