The Snob Talks Latina Vote, Talkin' to Teens 'Bout Sex & Magic Mike on NPR

The cast of "Magic Penis" ... I mean, "Mike." Yeah ... Mike.The Snob returned to NPR's Tell Me More program Wednesday to talk about possible White House "pandering" to the Latina mommy vote. (Are Latinas the new Soccer Moms, aka Futubol Mommies?) As part of the Beauty Shop segment with guest host Maria Hinosoja, we also discussed Kris Jenner recently admitting that when her famous daughter Kim Kardashian was a teen she put her on birth control and briefly discussed all the hype surrounding the bro-tastic, but "ribbed for her pleasure" hit stripper melodrama "Magic Mike."

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No Apologies: On The Killing of Trayvon Martin And Being "Good"

In the tragic murder of Trayvon Martin, there's no safe place. There's no real excuse to cling to. None of the usual dismissals work or fit. It's just bad. Real bad. And sits there and stares at you with it's cruelty and unfairness and ugliness and says, "Take this."

Take this load. And pick it up.

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The Case of The Missing Teen Mistakenly Deported to Colombia Makes My Head Hurt

A grandmother searching for her missing, runaway teenage granddaughter found the kid in Bogata, Colombia, where our immigration enforcement agency had deported her. Only the kid isn't Colombian, doesn't speak Spanish and had never been to the country before.

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Ten Percent of D.C. 8th Graders Have Considered, Attempted Suicide

About 400 eighth graders in Washington, D.C. public schools claim to have tried to kill themselves, according to a recent middle school survey reported in The Washington Post. That's 10 percent of the district's 4,000 eighth grade students. The WaPo says D.C.'s teenage suicide rate has consistently been almost twice the national average, which is around 6 percent. Administrators say this reflects the bleakness many area teens face, dealing with real world stressers while navigating public school.

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Hell Is A High School That Never Goes Out of Session

The cast of season 7 of Oxygen's Bad Girls ClubRecently a friend of mine got me to start watching two equally horrible, but hard-to-look-away from reality TV shows. One is Basketball Wives on VH-1 (both original flavor and LA). The other is Bad Girls Club on Oxygen. The first time I sat down to watch Bad Girls Club I almost had to leave the room because the women on there reminded me too much of all the things I'd tried so hard to forget about my childhood and teen experience, triggering a public school PTSD response.

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