Open Letter to Kenny Santucci and Evan Starkman
Dear Kenny and Evan, You might want to consider a new legal strategy. Having your lawyer, Usman Shaikh, Esq., send me a Cease and Desist Notice (see below) might not have been your best course of action. Here’s why: There’s this thing called “the Streisand Effect,” and it basically means that the more you try…
Injustice is my Bitch
Let me tell you a little something about me. When I was a kid, (8ish) I gave my birthday money to Greenpeace. I remember doing it–we were at a restaurant, and on my way to the restroom I noticed a little donation box for the whale-saving organization. I dropped in my crisp fiver and went…
Let the Toothbrushes Fall Where They May
On August 1, 2013, I received the following email in response to my post titled, MTV and Rape Culture: Dear Ms. Garner: I represent Kenneth Santucci and Evan Starkman. It has been brought to my attention that an article on your website dated October 26, 2012 contains inaccurate and/or incomplete information relating to my…
May All be Free
All beings deserve to be free. Yep, even douche-bags.* Although, I’m in full support of correcting or shunning them. But the truth is, if people prone to douche-bagism were more internally free, they would be less externally douchey. When we are free, really free in our minds and hearts, we have nothing to prove, nothing…
Doing Gratitude All Wrong
Hard to believe I could screw up being grateful, right? I was. For years I’ve dipped in and out of doing gratitude lists. Sometimes I’d do a list of 100, others I’d come up with 5 things a day. The problem is that on days when it was hard, I’d cop out and write things like,…