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Whip `Em Out, Girls!

spingirl | 28 July, 2006 13:52

The female breast. Some humans find them attractive, some find them disgusting, and others find them to be a massive turn-on. Whatever your opinion on them, it's fair to say that the primary purpose for the female breast is to produce milk in order to feed the human young. Humans don't regurgitate already digested food for their wee ones, like birds or other animals; human females feed their babies by breastfeeding, preferably, though machine produced formula is also an option. In order to breastfeed, the female has to present the breast to the baby and allow the baby to latch on and suck. This is how it has been done since the beginning of mankind, and it doesn't look like it is going to change any time soon.

So why do so many people have a problem with women breastfeeding in public?

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Confessions of a Trainwreck Whore

spingirl | 02 July, 2006 12:34

I will admit it: I love a good celebrity trainwreck. Few things capture my attention in the way a tacky celebrity breakdown does. So, you can probably understand that right now, I am in heaven, sheer heaven. Between the Star Jones/Barbara Walters all-out brawl and the demise of Britney Spears' career, the air is thick with the fires of celebrity self-combustion.

And here I thought fireworks are only for July 4th.

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An Uncomfortable Truth

spingirl | 01 July, 2006 19:11

Last night, I went with a couple of friends to see the Al Gore/Global Warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth." It was actually a very good movie - very affecting and thought provoking. Leaving the theater, our group was discussing our own impact on the environment and energy usage. And that when it hit me, my own uncomfortable truth: the reason I have a nice roof over my head and a comfortable lifestyle is because of the energy companies that are helping to ruin our world.

My husband works for one of the largest manufacturers and maintainers of power generation equipment in the world. His job involves the maintenance of the majority of power generation equipment (think power plants) in the state of Virginia. Quite possibly, he may, one day soon, be in charge of the building a slew of new coal burning power plants in Virginia. The more energy that Virginians use (and waste), the more work my husband has. In essence, the consumption of fossil fuels and consequent pollution of our Earth puts food on my table. That's an uncomfortable truth.

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