Dear Brooke Hogan,

I don’t usually read the celebrity gossip section of MSNBC.com, but I was appalled at what you said in an interview with Access Hollywood in regards to Hillary Clinton’s bid for president. In case you were too busy thinking about how best to pose your “ladies” for your possible upcoming shoot with Playboy to remember what I‘m referring to, here is what you were quoted as saying:

“You know what? I am actually not that much into voting. I think it’s kind of crazy that a woman is running because I think that women deal with a lot of emotions and menopause and PMS and stuff,” Brooke said. “Like, I’m so moody all the time, I know I couldn’t be able to run a country, because I would be crying one day and yelling at people the next day, you know?”

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I’ll admit: I’m just a bit of a lurker. I often end up on some random message board, Facebook group, etcetera dealing with some issue and become completely entranced for hours on end. Recently, I came across a Facebook group calling for a return to “being a lady”.

I’ve never been the most feminine of a person; I do many things that are more characteristic of males than females. I’m one of only three girls in the computer/information sciences curriculum at Kansas State University. I rarely wear dresses or skirts and I wear make-up just as rarely. Read the rest of this entry »

I apologize for all of the mess that you might have saw this morning (and the mess that my fanlistings are still in). My site was hacked because I had a Coppermine installation that I had not used in over a year and had completely forgotten about – until I saw the mess this morning, looked in my raw access logs and tracked down the culprit… Please let this be a reminder to everyone: delete any scripts that you do not use, update any scripts that you do use with the latest updates, and update any plugins you use. Because I forgot to delete that crappy Coppermine installation, I now have to look through every single PHP file and delete a section of code that the hacker appended to every single PHP file. I have at least 10 PHP files for each of my 52 fanlistings on top of all of the Wordpress files I’ve already updated that I still need to fix.

I’m going to use my handy ReminderFox Firefox addon to remind me to check things for updates once a month or so. I would advise everyone to do the same.

[Edit 1:52AM Sunday, April 20] I’ve managed to clean up everything, I think, from this site to all of my fanlistings, my Q*bee quilt, and my portfolio. If you see any weird things going on please let me know. [/Edit]

I got up around 10 a.m. so that I could get some homework done (and that I did – around 50 pages of Archaeology and two chapters of Psychology), and then I made some macaroni and cheese for lunch. I sat down at my computer to see what was in the news, and lo and behold, I find this: Obama’s Religious Rhetoric Puts Faith in Spotlight.

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