Rebekah Kuschmider

Rebekah Kuschmider

Bio

Rebekah Kuschmider is a DC area writer with a background in non-profit management and advocacy. Her work has been seen at Babble, Scary Mommy, Huffington Post, The Mid, Redbook online, and The Broad Side. She is the creator of the blog Stay at Home Pundit and is a contributor to the upcoming book Love Her, Love Her Not: The Hillary Paradox (an anthology, SheWrites Press, Nov. 2015). You can follow her on Facebook and Twitter.

Rebekah Kuschmider Articles

Butter: still food.

Butter's Officially Good Now, But As Far As I'm Concerned, It's Always Been Good

Yesterday, the big news in food science was that BUTTER ISN’T BAD FOR YOU AFTER ALL! It turns out that butter, like other saturated fats, isn’t the health demon-food that we were once told it was. I think now we’re supposed to do Kermit-arms and dance around rejoicing that we can butter our toast with impunity.

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Image: Pixabay, Claudia14

National Aquarium Dolphins About To Retire To First-Of-Its-Kind Sanctuary

Who doesn’t dream of retiring from their day job and relocating to the Caribbean? Well, soon the dolphins at the National Aquarium in Baltimore will get to do just that.

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Source: www.courant.com

Senator Murphy Holds Groundbreaking Gun Violence Filibuster

Of all the weird powers granted to various branches of the government, the right of U.S. senators to conduct filibusters — to keep talking as long as they want — is one of the weirdest.

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"Capybaras are the world’s largest rodents and they look sort of like jumbo-sized guinea pigs."

Florida Is Experiencing A Literal Cute Invasion

Normally, when I think of invasive species, I get a pretty grim picture in my mind. The wilds of Florida are no stranger to terrifying invasive species either — 16 foot Burmese pythons, anyone? — but their latest case of exotic pets gone feral is less horror-movie and more “ZOMG I WANT TO SNUGGLE THEM!”

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BREAKING: Children Of Same-Sex Couples Are Totally Fine

For a long time, there was this idea floating around that same-sex couples shouldn’t be parents because it would be bad for the kids.

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This Outrage At Old Navy's Twitter Is Just... *Eyeroll*

Yesterday, Old Navy sent out a tweet to alert us all to a sale. Woohoo! Cheap summer clothes! Everyone likes cheap clothes! Right?

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CATS EAT FLIES. AND LICK THEIR OWN BUTTHOLES. MULTIPLE TIMES A DAY.

Would You Buy Your Cat This $300 Food?

We all spoil our pets, right? I’m certainly guilty of it. My dog’s favorite things are bully sticks, which are literally dried bull penises. They cost about $1 a pop and that’s kind of splurge for an animal who can amuse herself by licking her own butt.

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Americans Spent $60 Billion On Their Pets In 2015. (Worth It.)

I got a puppy last fall, and I’ve spent about a zillion dollars on different things for her to chew. She really likes bully sticks, which are dehydrated bull penises. It cracks me up every time I give one to her and say, “Here. Go eat a dick.”

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Budget proposal, yes. Force of law, NOPE. (Image Credit: By Office of the Speaker via Wikimedia Commons)

#RavsRadar: Trump's Budget Is Garbage, But Don't Panic - Congress Will Probably Ignore Most Of It

I’m going to start today’s Rav’s Radar with two words: Don’t Panic.

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Bernie Supporters "Make It Rain" $1,000 On Hillary Clinton's Car

Attendees of the Sanders event stood along the street when Clinton’s motorcade arrived and threw 1,000 $1 bills at her vehicle. Twitter was alight with notices about “making it rain” on Hillary’s car. I have questions.

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