Daily Archives: July 10, 2013

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Coming SOON: A Movie Trailer Roundup

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Are you getting Pacific Rimmed this weekend, hunty? Maybe Conjuring up a few haunted house cliches next week? You gotta do you, but let’s also see what flickering dreams the cinegoogolplex will be selling you in the months to come. Porn stars and westerns and remakes, oh my! Hit the jump to view some trailers that have recently hit the web. Continue reading

Super Squats Challenge

Welcome back, Super Squaters! I bet you thought you would take the summer off! So did I! My trainer had different plans for me. He told me that I needed a new fitness goal for the next 12 weeks, and he was right. I managed to deal with some pretty big things in the top half of this year and not let my health completely fall to the wayside. However, I still have not met my long time weight goal and my butt still doesn’t look like Ivet Lalova’s (google her, I’ll wait). Continue reading

This Year in Anti-Choice Tomfoolery: The Northeast

Welcome to the third installment in this series on anti-choice politics in 2013. The northeastern states haven’t had as much success in passing most of the proposed anti-abortion legislation this session, though not for lack of trying. Highlights include the loss of the entire Women’s Equality Act in New York, a stalled bill that would require crisis pregnancy centers to tell the truth about their services, and Gov. Chris Christie’s refusal to include additional funds for family planning in the New Jersey state budget.

Let’s see what’s happening in your state! Continue reading

QOTD: What’s Your Extreme Weather Story?

When I was eight years old, my family spent the month of July visiting my stepfather’s parents on their farm outside of Wichita  Kansas. One evening, my sister and I were bathing, supervised by our mom. We had just noticed lighting through the bathroom window, when my step-grandmother burst into the bathroom grabbed my sister out of the tub and told my mom to wrap me in a towel and follow her. Continue reading