Romney Taking Vaginas Into Consideration Regarding Running Mate

Word Search of Potential Romney VP Candidates
The names being tossed around as possibilities for Mitt Romney’s running mate are many and varied.

Actually, they’re really not … everyone under consideration holds pretty hard-core right wing views, which shouldn’t be much of a surprise considering that Romney himself has a past history of being fairly liberal on social issues, and the Republican machine obviously wants to keep that under the radar.

But what does Romney’s potential veep have to do with feminism?

There is this impression, see, that Romney needs to strongly consider a female running mate because he is woefully behind Barack Obama in the vagina-sporting demographic (unlike the House floor, we at Zelda Lily are very comfortable with the word “vagina”).  In other words, if they want to pump up Romney’s support among women, let’s get a woman up there with him.

Because, you know, that worked out so well for John McCain last election

Anyway, The Fiscal Times created a list of fourteen potential running mates for Romney, and three of those names are women: Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-New Hampshire), former Secretary of State …

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Boy Reportedly Killed by Mother

Computer Composite and Photograph of Camden Hughes

Sometimes we are reminded of the utter depravity that human beings are capable of.  Most of us shake our heads with disbelief at the atrocities of your Ted Bundys, your Manson families, your wannabe actors that kill their mothers.

While all murder is reprehensible, it is my hope that there is a special place in hell for mothers that kill their children.  Susan Smith, Casey Anthony, Andrea Yates … you can claim depression or a past plagued by abuse or that the devil made you do it or whatever, but the idea of a child being slaughtered by the very hand that brought it into the world …

It gives me the shivers.

And it pisses me off.

On May 14th, a Maine resident found the body of a young boy on the side of the road.  The little boy, whose death was considered a homicide from the get-go, was unidentified for days as police followed tips from all over the country with the help of a computer-generated reconstruction based on … well, you know.

The town of South Berwick, where he was found, rallied around this nameless child, creating makeshift memorials and holding …

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Murdered New Hampshire Mother: Victim, Scumbag, or Both?

Photo of Murder Victim Krista Dittmeyer

Tragic incidents and the often-horrifying accompanying details were once covered daily through newspapers, the morning and evening news, and AM radio (which I’m not sure even exists anymore). News updates occur via the internet far more rapidly nowadays; however, there seems to be a certain trade-off that has passed in terms of quality, whether it be accuracy, scope, or spin.

The frequency of news updates can really engage a reader, can personalize a tragedy … but there is a dark underbelly sometimes, when things aren’t exactly what they seem.

Take the recent death of 20-year-old Krista Dittmeyer, a single mother from Maine.

On a Saturday night in April, Dittmeyer’s car was found abandoned, flashers on, in the parking lot of a ski resort. Her 14-month-old daughter, Aliyah, was unharmed in her carseat, but there …

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Chad Evans, Convicted of Murdering Toddler in 2000, is Looking For Sympathy

Photo of Murdered Child Kassidy Bortner

When I became a mother at the age of seventeen, I could suddenly relate to news stories.  The Oklahoma City bombing.  Susan Smith drowning her little boys.  Everything suddenly touched me on an entirely different level when it hit me that I was suddenly responsible for raising a child—no, helping a child survive, when you think about it—in a truly frightening world.

The 2000 murder of 21-month-old Kassidy Bortner, though, is the one that will stay with me forever, a situation I still think about a lot.

Although I was …

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