

Renee James
ContributorRenee James writes social commentary and resolves daily to keep up with her blog: It’s Not Me, It’s You. Her essays have appeared in 101 Damnations: A Humorists’ Tour of Personal Hells and May Contain Nuts: A Very Loose Canon of American Humor. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Her opinion pieces have appeared in The Baltimore Sun, The Los Angeles Times, The Orlando Sentinel, The Morning Call and other Tribune newspapers, as well as The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Women’s Quarterly and Tango Magazine.
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What to make of the NFL-domestic violence link
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Is lowering the drinking age to 18 really such a good idea?
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Is college a waste of time and money?
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Mark Twain, Snooki, and the decline of American literature
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A nation of ‘slacktivists’
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The elephant in the room
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What’s next: Bob Dole’s Kansas?
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What would Ed(win) do?
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Don’t let the Grinch steal September 11th
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Enough with Eat, Pray, Love
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I blame Ted Turner
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The price of pretty feet
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Developing ‘female Viagra’? Start above the shoulders
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My family, the reality show
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Blago trial: The defense tweets
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Designer diapers, etc.: Ensuring a life of therapy and rebellion for our kids
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A eulogy for L&O
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Where did my kids come from?
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Calling time-out in the blame game
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Free speech is free speech, except when it’s not
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Childbirth as the ultimate pleasure
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Radical parenting not so dissimilar to lazy parenting
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Being queen of your own life (tiara sold separately)
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Short-lived adventures in bill-reading
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Taking Bedazzling to a whole new level
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Playtime waivers a new level of ridiculous
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2010 Academy Awards? I’ll pass
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Uniformity or flair? Skirting the issue
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Road to perdition not paved in Skittles
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Fifty years of man candy: Four Hughs and a Colin
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Moving one step closer to gender equality
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Mommy makeovers and oversharing with the kids
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Getting Grandma’s ring better than Grandma as a ring
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Gender roles, play and the phthalates in between
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Ensure years of psychotherapy for your child in one easy step