Christine Keith, blogger at “Adventures of a Thrifty Mama“, her husband Randy, and her 14 year old son have been identified by the police as the victims of a “double murder suicide”.

According to police in Lansing the blogger’s husband shot her and her son, then took his own life. Friends of the family say Christine had long been dealing with domestic abuse, even taking out a protection order in the past. A fund has been set up for her three remaining children, who are now with relatives.

Mandajuice, don’t forget she’s skinny now, recently declared “I clearly drink too much”. Saying “if I only have 3 drinks in a night, I consider that a GOOD night. That’s… sobriety”, she went on to explain what she plans to do about the situation:

…I have ZERO intention of quitting. I will never join a 12-step program. I will never surrender my addiction to a higher power. I think AA is horse Crap.

Instead, Mandajuice will simply live around her drinking:

…I’d rather work on harm reduction – never EVER driving after drinking. Never drinking with strangers or on first dates. Staying “sober” around my kids. Always making sure someone else is around who can help if needed. Taking a thousand vitamins a day, drinking my body weight in water and pounding as many antioxidants as I can to counteract the physical effects. Eating well. Running.

She then announced she will, in fact, stop drinking for the month of November. Why? Well in addition to saving money and just to “see” if she “can do it”:

…mostly there is one BIG reason – I’ve gained weight. My clothes don’t fit. It’s making me uncomfortable. It’s that simple.

She hasn’t “made it longer than a week in, well, YEARS” and doesn’t believe in seeking formal help, so she’s asking everyone what to expect during her sober month. Because if there’s anything that has been proven time and again to keep people from drinking, it’s the internet.

There’s nothing I admire more than someone who declares themselves an alcoholic taking pride in refusing to stop drinking unless it’s for some month long vanity challenge. I’m sure everyone with experience with alcohol abuse finds her truly inspirational. If only everyone who couldn’t make it through life without booze could have her willpower without the “horse Crap” of AA. I guess all it really takes is some vitamins and some too tight pants to make folks put down the bottle. Someone should alert the rehab community that they’re doing it wrong!

Hugo Schwyzer, won’t let you forget he’s the real victim in all this, announced on September 30th that he would no longer be writing or blogging, saying he could “do no more serious good writing as Hugo Schwyzer”. In typical Hugo fashion his resolve lasted less than a week before he was back on his blog, publishing and deleting posts with all the natural passive aggressive flair of a 14 year old girl on LiveJournal.

Now Huggy has a new post up, a post that will surely make you see that he is the ultimate male feminist – because he has been the victim of men too!

The breakthrough came in therapy this week. I had been raped. It happened in 1986, a generation ago, when I was an attention-starved 19 year-old. My rapist was an older Navy sailor, a massive man.

Yes folks, he is now rewriting the story of an encounter he has apparently previously portrayed as “hot” and “consensual” as a brutal and violent sexual assault. And he’s not just your average assault victim – he’s a double victim because he’s a man!

Technically, I was a legal adult when I was raped by a man twice my age. Had I been a 19 year-old girl assaulted by a sailor in his 40s, there might have been more sympathy…

I don’t mean to be cynical here, but isn’t this a rather convenient moment for a sympathy inducing 27 year old rape claim? Wouldn’t this revelation have done more good back when he was running with the feminists and acting like men are terrible monsters? And how does he keep getting access to the internet?