Like a Boss: Voting Your Voice in 2012

A native of Kenya, Mr. Alex Armagoha (Ar-ma-GO-uh) was the instructor of my Government 2301 class. With an audience of fifty students a night twice a week, it would’ve been easy for him to recite statistics, discuss the levels of leadership and test us students on the most tried-and-true aspects of local and national politics.… Continue reading Like a Boss: Voting Your Voice in 2012

The Birth Control Billing Backlash

Here are not one, but TWO unenlightened letters received from folks who felt it was their duty to inform me that women need to suck it up and pay for all birth control (as if men have no duty to do so). I shut them down faster than a bootleg Gucci/Prada swap meet. Another mic hits the stage.

Viagra? All Day. Contraceptives… No Way?

http://www.dallasnews.com/lifestyles/columnists/lorrie-irby-jackson/20120503-womens-right-to-parent-or-not-at-stake-in-debate.ece   Whether you have a teething baby, a sulky preteen or a college freshman, parenting is a difficult, demanding, never-ending job. Executing its many duties requires consistent doses of patience, maturity, discipline and a constant influx of money and time, even when they’re grown and gone. And because that daunting task shouldn’t be attempted… Continue reading Viagra? All Day. Contraceptives… No Way?