A Short Illustrated History of Clarissa’s Blog, Part II

Since we’ve been talking about mothers-in-law recently, I thought people might enjoy this old post about the phenomenon of the obsessive mother-in-law.

Talking about mothers, this is a hilarious true story that happened to me.

This is the first post I ever wrote about the mail-order-bride business, and irate consumers of mail-order brides persecuted me for a long time for it.

This stupid book almost ruined my personal life, and when I wrote a post criticizing it, its author had the gall of coming to my blog to defend it. That jerk.

And this post angered organizers of a certain conference so much that they offered to pay for me to travel to their event and see for myself that it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was. Of course, I didn’t take them up on the offer.

And this is my very first post on the silliness inherent in the word “privilege.” Since then, I have had to elaborate on this topic dozens of time because people don’t want to give up on their favorite pastime of privilege-scratching.

I try not to discriminate against groups of people. This, however, is one group that I dislike vehemently and profoundly. Oh, I can’t wait for my Fire to arrive. 🙂

Horrible events at Yale University prompted me to write the truth about the place.

This was a very popular and controversial early post where I ridiculed a column on a famous feminist blog that dispensed really idiotic advice about sex. I still love this post. This is the kind of post that makes me feel sorry that I have already written it and can’t write it again.

Hilarious stories from my first semester of teaching at my current school.

This post on mothers and weddings includes a funny story about my mother and my own wedding (the first one.)

An example of how an angry exchange between bloggers can lead to something great. It also demonstrates that even if I go off at you aggressively the first time I discover your existence, we can get to like each other eventually.

(To be continued. . . )