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Girl Talk: Why Do I Feel So Depressed Around The Holidays?

Jessica WakemanDecember 24, 2012 //
Stressed?
Here's how to avoid a holiday-fueled freak out. Read More »
Single For The Holidays?
How to survive. Read More »
Happy Holidays!
The Frisky is here for you for this holiday season. Need gift ideas? Moral support? Read More »
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The irony about people who cope with depression is that some of us are actually quite happy people. We are not, contrary to stereotype, slogging through life with the weight of one thousand sorrows dragging behind us. I may feel things intensely, sure. But I’m not someone whose blue-colored glasses see everyone screwed up and the world a terrible place.

That is, until the holidays come around. Keep reading »

NRA Hold Press Conference To Deny Any Responsibility For Newtown Shooting

Julie GersteinDecember 21, 2012 //
The Soapbox: Gun Control
newtown
You don't have to be a parent to be worried about guns. Read More »
Obama In Newtown
Watch the president address mourners at the Sandy Hook vigil. Read More »
On The Newtown Massacre
Thoughts from a woman who went through a violent attack at her school. Read More »

This morning, National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre held a press conference, meant to be the NRA’s response and “meaningful contribution” to the Newtown shooting that occurred one week ago. Rather than surprise the audience by actually taking some responsibility for promoting a gun-crazy, shooting-first-and-ask-questions-later culture, LaPierre did what was sadly expected: he denied any culpability for the incident and proposed that schools start hiring armed police officers to protect children. Keep reading »

Meet The Texas Town Which Allows Teachers To Carry Concealed Guns

Jessica WakemanDecember 20, 2012 //
Offensive Newtown Essay
Charlotte Allen of the National Review says men could have stopped it. Read More »
Fearing Guns
How a gun-loving West Texas girl learned to fear assault weapons. Read More »
The Soapbox: Gun Control
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You don't have to be a parent to be worried about guns. Read More »
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In the week following the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where 27 people were murdered, everyone everywhere has been yakking about their opinion on guns. Some people think more people should carry guns, so they can protect everyone else from the “bad guys.” Other people — and I myself fall into this camp — say the less access to guns, the better.

The most hot-button area of focus has been on guns in schools and whether more guns in the hands of security guards, teachers or administrators will make students more safe. Heh, remember being a kid and seeing after school specials about how we should keep guns out of school?!

So I thought it would be interesting to check in with one small town in Texas that allows its teachers to carry concealed weapons. Keep reading »

Radio Stations Pulling “Die Young,” “Pumped Up Kicks,” Over Lyrics Following Newtown

Jessica WakemanDecember 19, 2012 //
Ke$ha's A Feminist
Ke$ha
She just wants to sing rock 'n roll songs like the boys do. Read More »
Ke$ha's Memoir
It's the new "Feminine Mystique," she says. Read More »
Ke$ha Had Sex With A Ghost
And 7 other sexual encounters of the third kind... 8 Photos »
Ke$ha's Toothy Trinket
Would you wear a tooth as a necklace like she does? Read More »
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Liza Long, Blogger Behind “I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother,” Appears On CNN

Amelia McDonell-ParryDecember 18, 2012 //
"I Am Adam Lanza's Mother"
Thoughts on the essay that went viral. Read More »
How To Deal
Life is hard. Sometimes we all need help dealing. Read More »
Shooting In CT
Twenty-seven people were killed, including 20 children. Read More »
"It was a cry for help."

Liza Long, the blogger behind the post “I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother,” which went viral following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on Friday, appeared on CNN last night to discuss her motivations behind writing the piece, respond to critics who questioned whether she violated her son’s privacy, and to update everyone on how “Michael” (not his real name) is doing. Long said her post was a cry for help; though Michael is a happy, sweet child 97 percent of the time, he is prone to out-of-nowhere violent rages that doctors have yet to find an official cause for. Keep reading »

Mommie Dearest: Explaining The Newtown Massacre To My Son

Avital Norman NathmanDecember 18, 2012 //
The Soapbox: Gun Control
newtown
You don't have to be a parent to be worried about guns. Read More »
Obama In Newtown
Watch the president address mourners at the Sandy Hook vigil. Read More »
Shooting In CT
Twenty-seven people were killed, including 20 children. Read More »

“It’s unthinkable.” That’s what headlines are proclaiming and friends are telling me about the absolutely devastating massacre in Newton, Connecticut.

Unthinkable.

For me, it’s the complete opposite. I can’t stop thinking about it. Since the first moment the internet started buzzing with slips of information, my mind latched on and couldn’t let go. Days later and it still hasn’t. I’m not sure it ever will.

Why?

How?

Why? Keep reading »

Anonymous Hits Westboro For Threat To Protest Newtown

NewserDecember 17, 2012 //

Hackers from Anonymous pounced on the Westboro Baptist Church soon after the extremist group announced plans to picket Sandy Hook Elementary School to praise God for sending the gunman, Mashablereports. The online activists published the emails, phone numbers, and home addresses of Westboro members, taunted the group on Twitter about the hacking, and vowed to destroy the group for “breeding hatred.” Read more…

Bushmaster, Maker Of The Rifle Used In The Newtown Massacre, Equates Gun Ownership With Manhood

Amelia McDonell-ParryDecember 17, 2012 //

On the left is an ad for Bushmaster, maker of rifle used by Adam Lanza in Friday’s Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. It is part of a larger campaign which equates manhood with ownership of a firearm. The “Mancard” campaign lets users revoke a guy’s mancard (bottom right is an example of a revoked mancard for, seriously, an “Adam L”) for such offenses as using too much anti-bacterial soap, being a crybaby, ordering an appletini in front of another dude, and “being on a short leash.” However, the good news is that by buying a Bushmaster rifle, just like the one used to murder 20 children and six educators, your mancard is instantly reissued. Bushmaster will likely be pulling this campaign at any second, but the internet never forgets. [Bushmaster]

Shooting In CT
Twenty-seven people were killed, including 20 children. Read More »
The Soapbox: Gun Control
newtown
You don't have to be a parent to be worried about guns. Read More »
Scarborough On Guns
The shooting in Newtown made the pundit rethink his stance on guns. Read More »

Joe Scarborough Says Newtown Has Made Him Rethink His Pro-Gun Stance

Julie GersteinDecember 17, 2012 //
Obama In Newtown
Watch the president address mourners at the Sandy Hook vigil. Read More »
Not Just A Parent Concern
newtown
Everyone should be worried about guns after the Newtown shooting. Read More »
Shooting In CT
Twenty-seven people were killed, including 20 children. Read More »
QUOTABLE

“… We have become so gun loving, so blasé about home-grown violence that in my lifetime alone, far more Americans have been casualties of domestic gunfire than have died in all our wars combined…

I’ve always taken a Libertarian approach to Hollywood’s first amendment rights, and gun collectors second amendment rights, and i stood by those libertarian beliefs after columbine, after aurora and after Arizona. Those young men who slaughtered innocents were crazy after all, and they would have found another way to klil their victims if their guns of choice were not available…I knew that day that the ideologies of my past career were no longer relevant to the future that I want, that I want for my children.” Keep reading »

Thoughts On Liza Long’s Viral Post, “I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother”

Amelia McDonell-ParryDecember 17, 2012 //
Shooting In CT
Twenty-seven people were killed, including 20 children. Read More »

Chances are, if you spent any time on the internet this weekend, a blog post originally titled “I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother” came across your radar. The piece was originally posted on the personal blog of writer Liza Long (pictured), a mom living in Boise, Idaho, who is obviously not literally the mother of Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old man who has been identified as the shooter in Friday’s elementary school massacre in Newtown, CT. Long, however, is the single mother of 13-year-old boy she calls “Michael” in the piece, an apparently deeply troubled kid who has hard to diagnose mental health and behavioral and developmental issues that Long believes are similar to those had by Adam Lanza and the other young white men who have committed mass shootings in recent years.

“I live with a son who is mentally ill,” she writes. “I love my son. But he terrifies me.” A photo of Michael accompanies the piece, which has since been cross-posted on such high traffic websites as Gawker and Huffington Post. Keep reading »

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