As China continues to move forward, to gain ground economically as well as in various social issues… there are growing pains. Women’s rights have come a long way, but the old still clashes with the new. If you’ve been to China you’ll likely have the right perspective to read this foreignpolicy.com story, but if you [...]

I’ve talked about this a few times in the past, but the New York Times recently published a pretty extensive article on it. This is another of those reasons my anonymity is important — I could never talk about my girls in this manner if anyone knew who they were. TwinkleToes is ahead of GlitterGirl [...]

Here is yet another story about pollution in China. One of the many reasons our factories moved overseas is because it is so expensive for companies to be responsible from a pollution standpoint, and that’s pretty much a requirement in the US, while not so much in countries like China, India, Mexico, and Pakistan. I’m [...]

In case you don’t go somewhere today that is protesting the upcoming censorship legislation, I’d like to point you to some trusted sources who can explain it to you: google.com/landing/takeaction/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page mozilla.org/sopa/?WT.mc_id=strike wordpress.org If you go to Google.com today you’ll see a big black square over their logo. Wikipedia is closed for the day. A [...]

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would be 83 years old, if his life hadn’t been cut short, and if he’d managed to live that long. What would he say about our world today? How much of his Dream has come to pass? A good deal of it has, but we aren’t quite there yet. If [...]

This post isn’t about politics, even though I’m showing an attack ad. I’m showing the attack ad because this just goes too far. Way too far. I know that since he’s a politician and has put himself into the spotlight that he has no legal recourse against this kind of thing… but I really wish [...]