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“Karen” and “Becky” are two neologisms with opposite meanings for the enjoyable life. Here’s your field guide. Karen: a person, often a white woman, who feels entitled to lecture perfect strangers about their behavior. Synonyms: “Co-op Board President”; “Hillary Clinton”; “Portland ‘Moms’” Becky: a white woman who calls the police on a suspicious black male. Synonyms: “Still alive”; “Breathing” Karens used to be known as “bossy,” but then Sheryl Sandberg said “bossy” was patriarchal, misogynistic and sexist, so a new word had to be invented to describe the exact same conduct. — A Karen will walk across the street to...

In case you live in a cave and are unaware: butts are the new boobs. Every young woman wants big ones in the 21st century. Some want them bad enough to have augmentations.There’s just no explaining some people’s taste and delusions. On an objective basis (i.e. da Vinci’s golden ratio) disproportionately large butts are not attractive.But(t) like so many issues, many of them far more important that the size of boobs and butts, pop culture has dictated what people accept as objective reality. Hence young women have been brainwashed into believing they need to haul around a big booty in...

'Idol' Singer Bared Most for MagazineBecky O'Donohue posed with her twin for Maxim February 22 2006 Becky O'Donohue got her biggest TV exposure to date Tuesday night on "American Idol," where she performed as one of the 12 female semifinalists. The key words there being "TV exposure," because O'Donohue has exposed some other things in the past. O'Donohue and her twin sister, Jessie, posed for laddie mag Maxim back in 2004, long before people who weren't fans of Niagara University's women's basketball team (where the twins played from 1998-02) were familiar with them. For those whose local public libraries don't...

I don't have a lot to report, friends. She's just gone... Please pass on your prayers for Becky Atwood who has died. Please include Linda Atwood, Helen-Green eyes, and Tommy-Jo, and all their children

They’re back. The Ballad of Becky and Sean continues as our erstwhile twentysomethings take on Fahrenheit 911, the political conventions, and people who are just plain MEAN. "Becky’s STEPDAD was going to vote Republican because he drove an SUV and wore SUITS to THE OFFICE. And her STEPDAD was WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING and HE NEVER LISTENS. She wasn’t going to vote Republican, no way. “You can’t make me if I don’t want to,” she thought. Becky and Sean thought the Democratic convention was cool, because it talked about HEALTHCARE and how OIL was being shed for BLOOD. Or maybe it...