News Flash: Girls don’t get pregnant by themselves

Teen pregnancy rates in the United States are up for the first time in years. The New York Times attributed this sad finding to a study by the Guttmacher Institute, a nonpartisan nonprofit research group:
While teenage pregnancy rates for whites remain far lower than for blacks and Hispanics, the pregnancy rates increased for all three [...]

‘Desperate Housewives’ to get even more desperate

Last season, Desperate Housewives, bugged me.
First, there was that wacky voiceover from dead Wisteria Lane resident, Mary Alice Young, admonishing viewers that polite people are wolves in sheep’s clothing, while rude people have our best interests at heart.
Which irked me. I mean, what are you teaching my kids? (And, no, I’m not going to forbid [...]

Meghan McCain asks, “I’m too fat to write?”

In case you haven’t already heard, former presidential candidate John McCain’s daughter, Meghan, a writer for The Daily Beast, suggested that an extremist like Ann Coulter isn’t doing the Republican party any favors.
Conservative pundit Laura Ingraham rose to Coulter’s defense by doing an ugly Valley Girl imitation of McCain (which made Ingraham sound more of [...]

Joy Behar interviews Ann Coulter

Friends and I headed to Manhattan Tuesday to watch a live broadcast of my guilty pleasure, The View.
In a segment featuring singer Tom Jones, host Barbara Walters asked if he’d been “exemplary” in his 52-year marriage. Tom looked uncomfortable, so Joy piped in that he had been “on the road” and suggested — in [...]