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

I will kill you.

Cats: The Perfect Killing Machines

“The reason cats are so pissy is they’re God’s perfect killing machines but they only weigh 8lbs and we keep picking them up and kissing them” - Da

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BREAKING: Purity Rings Don't Work

30% of girls who took purity pledges experienced pregnancy before marriage. To put that into perspective: only 18% of non-pledgers experienced pregnancy before marriage.

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Schools Get Apple-Averse Students To Eat Fruit With Classic Simple Fix

This kind of lunchtime alchemy is why "creative lunches" is such a popular search term on Pinterest. And it’s also why there’s an apple industry renaissance happening as we speak.

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Rumors around Capitol Hill at the end of last week suggest that the Republicans are close to being finished with their AHCA bill, and they also think they’re close to having enough votes to pass it. (Image Credit: Flickr/Gage Skidmore)

Senate Republicans Are Planning Their AHCA Legislation In Stealth Mode

There is a working group of 14 Republican men and one Republican woman (the woman was added after the outcry about the original all-male revue-style workgroup got loud enough) who are creating the Senate version of the bill in secret. Behind closed doors. No hearings to discuss major points of the law. No input from stakeholder groups like hospitals, patient advocacy groups, doctors, or insurance companies. No input from Senate Democrats.

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It’s entirely possible to have a top tier of campaign staffers that looks like a frat party in a sausage factory.

Guess How Much Women Make On The Campaign Trail? (Not A Lot)

Women are a big topic in politics. Whether you’re the first viable female presidential candidate, stumping for paid parental leave, campaigning on reducing access to abortion, or — if you're Donald Trump — talking about female reporters being on their period, the topic of women is inescapable on the campaign trail. You can't win an election without women. Well, women voters.

But can you win an election without any women on your senior staff?

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"Your Body Does Not Want You To Lose Weight"

Your body is smart as hell and it does not want you to die. If you start depriving it of fuel, it will slow down the rate at which you burn fuel and step up the desire to provide it with more fuel. In others words, you’ll burn fewer calories and you’ll be hungry all the time.

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Hold onto your hats, ladies & gents. Because the sheer ubiquity of spiders is staggering.

#RavsRadar: How Many Spiders Are Alive & Well In The World Today? WAY TOO MANY

We interrupt this dumpster fire that is the United States of America in 2017 to bring you what is probably the most horrifying news in the history

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Hurricane Harvey is a catastrophic situation. Houston needs our help.

Houston Needs Your Help - Here's How You Can Give It

If you answered can, please go to Houston. People need your help. Hurricane Harvey is a catastrophic situation.

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"Dogs, as we all know, are awesome." Image: Instagram.com, early_alert_canines

Meet The Next Frontier Of Service Dogs

The human-dog relationship has been mutually beneficial for centuries... Now there’s one more truly amazing thing we can credit dogs with doing for people — they can be taught to sense when a diabetic person’s blood sugar is in the danger zone and alert the person to take action.

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Donald Trump thought BEING PRESIDENT would be EASIER than his regular life. Oh America, what have we wrought? (Image Credit: Flickr/Gage Skidmore)

#RavsRadar: Donald Trump - The Man Who Thought Being POTUS Would Be 'Easier' Than Regular Life. LOLSOB

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders and Jeb Bush and so many other candidates were imperfect and problematic in their own ways, but they were also career public servants who knew the risks and the responsibilities of the office. They expected it to be hard. They were ready for it to be hard. We should have elected one of them.

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