Gluten Free Girl, did not get her eating tour, has been trying to adopt a sibling for her biological child for a couple of years now. After many "possibilities" that didn't work out due to things like having to refuse an interested birth mother "because we would be in Italy when the baby was born", Shauna finally got an email about a newborn in the ICU: By the time we were home, 5 minutes later, I knew that this was a reparable condition, in most cases. It meant weeks, if not months, in the ICU and hospital but, in most...

Meanwhile, on tumblr, people are still waiting to see if Elaine will get her horsey. Back in March Elaine posted a plea to the internet: I tumblr! My name is Elaine. You can see me in this picture! That is me holding the sign, HI! Well my hubby said that if this gets 1 MILLION notes, he will buy me a horse. I would love a horse I grew up on a farm where I rode and ate horses til i was 15 when I moved. I have not seen a horse since, not even a picture! Only one painting...

Frederick Light, dude who makes those bodyrock workout videos all the HLBs make so much panty pudding over, put up a post yesterday that claims his ex-wife Zuzka Light abused him. Saying that his life "had become a nightmare of abusiveness", full of "hot cups of coffee in the face, punches and kicks, electrical cord cuts, and numerous affairs" Freddy says he had to leave the marriage: Just over 21 months ago I returned from LA in this broken state. Aside from family and close friends, very few people know the full story. My relationship was over...The choice for me...

Today in slow news days Heather Armstrong, of the Hangin' Tuff Armstrongs, visited the east coast over the weekend. After months of lame hints and instagram crushbarfing, she finally acknowledged on her blog that she took a "non-work related plane trip involving (you guessed it) this guy" - effectively putting to rest any remaining speculation that Matt Tuff is not her manpiece. (more…)

The Cluttered Wife, certainly looks old enough to pronounce on what constitutes feminism, is pregnant. As a pregnant married woman, this gives her the right to give you "women's rights" ladies a big ole truth bomb: Sorry that I am not sorry, but abortion has absolutely nothing to do with “women’s rights". It is not like gaining the right to vote. This is about ending a LIFE. The life of a child that has not yet been born. We need to stop using terms such as “fetus" to dehumanize these babies. Call me conservative if you wish, but the fact...

After India-Jewel Jackson, Holocaust expert, caused an internet flurry of WTF with her pro-tips on how to survive genocide XOJane decided to promise to work on community guidelines. Janestowners quickly filled up disqus with comments about how XOJane is the most awesome and welcoming community like omg ever u guyz. One commenter even wishes all the other websites on the internets were XOJane, saying "Recently I tried commenting on slate and then--and this is true-- I got sad that you guys weren't there to back me up and I just left." In order to prevent such a lack of Janestowncentricity...

Bloggers are ordering their new moo cards and dusting off their sense of entitlement in preparation for the Blogher 2013 conference. In between tweets whining about google reader and how omg summer is so hot, hundreds of middle class women are emailing any company they can think of begging for a sponsorship while others assert their expertiness by posting blog conference how-tos. "The Next Martha" has graciously provided the Chicago Sheraton with just such a how-to guide, full of handy tips on how to treat the blogeratti: What should I expect from bloggers? You should expect from them as you would any...

Darlene, the "Time Warp Wife", is tired of the modern world being the modern world, full of displays of flesh that constantly tempt every man. I mean her friend Lisa's poor son can't even go shopping: Temptation can be found anywhere. Even in Target. Target? Yeah, I know. That's what I thought too. Until one day we popped in to pick up some flip-flops for the summer and I remarked how he kept bumping into things. What is your problem, Son?? "I'm just looking down, Mom," And with a nod, he indicated the ads placed strategically above us. Billboards for...

Over at XOJane, bastion of the meaningful, India-Jewel Jackson wrote a meh piece about Paula Deen and "apology culture". Thankfully she managed to spice it up in the comments when she more or less started up a Who Has Been More Oppressed contest. Hint on who won - not Jews! ith the slavery vs. holocaust debate, it's a bit different, as it was ultimately based upon race vs. religion, as in, Blacks were enslaved for hundreds of years, because they were Black. They couldn't change or alter the appearance so as to escape and fly under the radar. Jews were...

Instagram, home to millions of images of food and children, is apparently home to a new kind of image fun - "baby role play". It seems certain kinds of people enjoy "adopting" other peoples' kids and creating fantasy stories. According to  Marco Chown Oved: In conversations in the comments under each photo, the adopter can describe normal situations like playing with or feeding the baby, but sometimes the fantasies veer into sexual games...Even a cursory search brings up dozens of baby role plays on Instagram, many which describe sex in front of or with babies. Stealing photos is not a new...

Jenny, of the He-Man can't-you-people-take-a-joke club, is not sorry for her previous post. What previous post, you didn't ask but I'm going to tell you about anyway? This post: you know what i think sucks? that paula deen got fired. i think it's bullCrap is what i think. i am not a paula deen groupie, so let's get that out of the way. nor am i a racist. and i don't think she is either. in fact, I KNOW she isn't. i don't believe saying the 'n' word in a joke makes one a racist. She blathers on for far...

When In Doubt Just Add Glitter, most annoying blog name ever, is doing a really odd blog giveaway. How do you giveaway 6,000 followers??? Well I'll tell you... it's a little secret businesses use to increase their online presence, gain credibility, and look more established.  They pay someone to help them get their business out there. That's right - your prize,  valued "at over $2,000", will be 6k fake twitter followers. According to her, having a high twitter follower count means you "are considered to be more influential by your peers". Because nothing says influence like winning a bunch of...

The Christian Domestic Discipline Network, "Loving Wife Spanking in a Christian Marriage", wants you ladies to know your role. To that end, they encourage "domestic discipline" in marriage in order to help you get over your feminist ideas and help you gals help yourselves by letting your man raise his hand: It always makes me sad to see young women taken in by the lies of feminism. By the time many are old enough to question and see for themselves what a mess it makes out of their lives, it is too late to escape from the feminist-created rat-race. And why...

Sunshine Mary, "a concealed-carry kind of a girl", is taking a stand against colleges creating a "rape culture" - but not in the way you might think: Sexual assault centers and programs have only increased in visibility and campus involvement in the years since I’ve been out of college.  And oddly, according to them, campuses are even rapey-er than ever before.  They say there is an entire rape culture on campus. I don’t believe it, though. According to Mary there's not really that much rape happening on college campuses. Apparently it's mostly just drunk girls feeling bad about boozey sex, and being tricked...

Erin of Two Thirds Hazel, has "throw on a tutu" in her "about me", wants to do a giveaway like every other blogger on earth. But since she is a bold pioneering type, she decided to do a different kind of giveaway: I rounded up a group of ladies who have been around the ballpark a time or two when it comes to blogging in order to put this one of a kind giveaway together. We all have some tips, tricks, advice, and guidance that we'd love to shole out in order to help you grow into the best blogger...

Less than a year after announcing she was closing her blog Mckmama, pill shiller, has now announced that she will announce a new blog soon. A new internet venture is unsurprising to everyone who watched her writhe as her domain was cruelly confiscated last year by The Man, and speculation has begun on whether this will be another personal-for-pay blog or something connected to shilling the supplements she once claimed could help special needs kids.

Joining the ranks of Sami and The Paper Mama, Running to Africa has taken to the internet to implore strangers for baby money: We are weeks away from traveling to Ethiopia for Court, the first of two trips required for the adoption process.  In order to complete the final steps in bringing our daughter home, we need to raise $7,000 in a matter of days. They are "asking each of you to give $10 and then to pass this on to 25 of your friends, asking the same thing". In addition to money they "need a twin size bed for our daughter. ...

Kelly Oxford, seriously does anyone have any idea what she does besides twitter, made a never-done-before joke about America at the conclusion of her special "excuse for skinny white lady to post bikini pics" vacation. Namely, that Americans are fat and spread trash around. Shortly after ending her trip home on what appears to be a private plane, Kelly instagrammed the above pic with the caption "These fat basturds just threw all their trash on the road. WELCOME TO AMERICA!" Ya know, I think litterbugs suck as much as anyone else. But I don't see the need to post their...

Today in slow news days, Nat The Fat Rat, part of the NYC Mormon Mommyblogger Club, has finally somewhat admitted she did not actually just pull all of last month's cross stitch brags from her skinny jeans covered behind as she previously implied. Originally responding to a comment asking "do you just free hand it? or follow some sort of a pattern?", Nat claimed simply that she "freehanded these, which is actually easier than you'd think when you're doing counted cross stitch". Recently a Ratter found strangely similar patterns for sale in an etsy shop, and links to the patterns were posted...

The Warrior Eli Hoax Group, the nickelodeon.com for adults, has been recently uncovering the story of childhood cancer blog "Remembering Reilly". It has now been revealed that the site, which claimed to be the online journal of the cancer struggle and eventual death of 3 year old Reilly Bowman, was started by a teenage girl: I’ve heard from the person who is behind this hoax.  She’s a junior in high school and she says she started the blogs after hearing Taylor Swift’s song Ronan...We’ve discussed why what she did was harmful and wrong, and I truly believe she is sorry....