WriteGirl Creates Music

 You can't write all the time.  One of my other favorite activities is acting as a mentor for a beautiful high school girl, Cree Nixon.  There's a photo of her at the Grammy Museum.


I met her through WriteGirl, a nonprofit which links high school girls with professional writers.  Although almost half the students in the Los Angeles Public Schools drop out,  100% of the girls in WriteGirl go to college, most of them with scholarships.  Their slogan: Never underestimate the power of a girl and her pen.

Every month WriteGirl holds workshops in different genres.  Yesterday we went to the Grammy Museum where the girls learned the basics of writing lyrics.  At the end of the day, a group of professional songwriters put each of the lyrics to music.

So much fun.

Rush Limbaugh and His Prurient Interest in Sex Videos

Mr. Limbaugh has long called any woman who disagrees with him a feminazi.  This logic impaired spokesman for the ridiculous right recently said: “So Miss Fluke, and the rest of you Feminazis, here’s the deal, if we are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch.”

Mr. Limbaugh, two questions:  Do you have a prurient desire to watch sex videos?  And who's this "we" you're speaking for?  Are you speaking for men?  

Because here's the deal Mr. Limbaugh,  women don't need contraceptives to have safe sex. We only need them when we have sex with men.