I recently adopted a baby. Lately, one family member in particular has been getting on my case about how to do and not to do things, being very critical, spouting off statistics etc -- all under the guise of "help." It comes off as very grating and almost insulting. This is a person who lives in my town, whom I see a fair amount. How can I nicely get her to stop? I'm sure that some of you DL'ers must have children, plus sarcastically witty retorts.

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Oprah is expanding her online empire by teaming up with the Huffington Post for a section that they claim will engage her audience. The Huffington Post Oprah section will launch in August, and will curate content from Oprah.com, which features the motto "Live Your Best Life" and accompanies Winfrey's OWN TV programming with videos, articles and advice on health, fashion and culture. The section also will develop original content with Oprah.com, OWN and Huffington Post editors, and interactively engage with readers.

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One of the more amusing things revealed last week when Arizona’s secretary of state came out as birther was that Hawaii officials just simply don’t believe he’s qualified to investigate Barack Obama’s birth certificate. “Hello Jill. I just left you a brief voice mail message,” Arizona Deputy Secretary of State Jim Drake wrote in an email to a Hawaii attorney on May 1. “I am wondering whether you can give me a ballpark timeframe on our request. As you know, the closer we get to November, the more my phone rings. I believe that having Hawaii’s response on hand might help to quell the inquiries!” Deputy Attorney General Jill Nagamine’s response? “We need more information to substantiate that you are eligible to receive verification.” In an interview with the Associated Press late Friday, a spokesman for the Hawaii attorney general said Bennett still has yet to show that he legitimately needs a verification of Hawaii’s birth certificate despite numerous emails back and forth. Hawaii has been overloaded for years with requests for verification of the president’s birth certificate, getting as many as 50 new requests a month. Hawaii officials have passed laws and filed sworn affidavits to deal with the matter. The White House has even gone as far as to release a copy of the president’s long-form birth certificate to the public. Yet requests like Bennett’s still keep coming.

Hawaii state officials give birthers a taste of their own medicine

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I have a confession to make: I am a fag hag. If you are not familiar with the phrase, it means that I, as a heterosexual[i], have a disproportionate amount of homosexual friends in my inner social circle. For a while I was collecting lesbians and gays like barnacles. It wasn’t like they were a clique that I became part of, most of them were from completely different parts of my life and only knew each other through me. Two of them were grooms-people in my wedding. One was my Best Lesbian instead of a Best Man, a title she found singularly embarrassing (like this would ever stop me from using it). My pet theory is that I exude a pheromone that puts homosexuals at ease around me and they just kind of latch on. But really, it’s less bizarre than that. You know how most people tiptoe around the subject of homosexuality? I don’t do that. I stomp on their toes and tease them about it constantly. That’s the kind of person I am. I’m forever joking with people about one thing or another. Are you short? I make terrible size puns. Are you Hispanic? I make deportation jokes. Are you gay? I make jokes that are completely unsuitable to be repeated here. The first time someone called me “El Diablo Blanco”, I thought it was the funniest I had ever heard and referred to myself as such for years. I still do, on occasion. No one ever takes offense at this because if they’ve known me for more than five minutes they know none of it means anything to me. Sexual orientation means about as much to me as race, skin color, height, musical taste or any other aspect of a person does. I could care less if you sleep with a man, woman or blow up doll. It’s all the same to me and has been since I was old enough to know better. Ok, the blow up doll thing might be a bit too much for me, but I don’t judge (much). I suppose that utter indifference can be very appealing to someone who has struggled with the burden of being gay in America. If you don’t think it’s a burden, you don’t understand what being gay in America entails. It means you are despised by a good deal of the country for something that is outside of your control. You are bombarded, at every turn, with the message that you are not the norm and, hence, not normal. Think of being Jewish after Bill O’Reilly wins his imaginary War on Christmas. Everywhere you look, nativity scenes, Santa Claus and only “Merry Christmas” is allowed as a greeting. Lighting a Menorah is frowned upon as deviant. Now imagine that all year round. Billboards for men’s products display half-naked women, perfume ads show women seducing men and every single advertisement having to do with marriage shows a man and a woman. Same sex marriage is not only demonized by conservative politicians and pundits, it’s simply not legal in two-thirds of the country. That’s right; your love for your partner is legally prohibited from being expressed formally. THAT’S what it’s like to be gay in America. And the right thinks being gay is a choice? Who the hell would choose that?

Culture Wars: Episode One – The Gay Menace Or ‘Why Are Conservatives So Afraid Of Homosexuality?’

If you’ve seen Jason Andrews (right) on Sean Cody, you better commit his image to memory: The 28-year-old porn actor is going away for life for the murder of Florida tattoo artist Dennis Abrahamson. According to Adult Video News, he and fellow porn star Amanda Logue agreed to join Abrahamson for a sex party in May 2010, but instead the couple bludgeoned and stabbed the 41-year-old to death and stole his credit card, cash, video camera and laptop. The killing was notable for its brutality and the callousness with which the killers planned and executed the crime, including exchanging lurid text messages in the hours leading up to the attack. Logue had been hired by Abrahamson to have sex with him on camera during the party. After they were initially released by authorities for lack of evidence, Logue and Andrews fled separately. But when new evidence emerged, Andrews was arrested in Chattanooga, TN, where he was working at an upscale cigar bar. He plead guilty in exchange for taking the death penalty off the table. Aside from his careers in porn, homicide and bartending, Andrews was known in the Chicago nightlife scene as DJ Veritas.

Ex-Sean Cody Model Jason Andrews Gets Life Sentence For 2010 Murder

BURBANK, Calif. (KTLA) -- Legendary Burbank photographer and former boxer Otto Jensen, 101, was struck and killed by a vehicle driven by a 91-year-old woman in Burbank Wednesday morning. The accident was reported at 8:17 a.m. Wednesday on Olive Avenue at Griffith Park Drive. Jensen was crossing Olive Avenue in an area where there is no crosswalk, but where it is legal to cross, Burbank police said. Officers who responded to the scene and found Jensen injured in the roadway. Burbank Fire Department personnel began life saving measures and transported Jensen to St. Joseph's Medical Center. Emergency room personnel continued life saving efforts, but Jensen ultimately died from his injuries. The driver has been identified as 91-year-old Mary Beaumont, also of Burbank. She stopped after the accident and was interviewed by investigators before being released. Jensen, who was originally from Denmark, was a former boxer and beloved photographer. He had been running his photography studio on Olive Avenue since 1952. During his long career, he shot everything from family portraits to boxing to Hollywood celebrities. Jensen was featured in the City of Burbank's "Voices" series a few years ago. As a boxer, he went by the name Otto "BoneCrusher" Jensen. He described himself as Manny Pacquiao's biggest fan, and he got to meet his idol in 2011. The Los Angeles County Coroner's office and the Burbank Police Department Traffic Bureau are continuing the investigation. Anyone who may have witnessed the collision or who may have information is asked to call police at 818-238-3100.

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The daughter-in-law of Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman, who has served as a volunteer high school track and field coach in Oregon, was fired on Monday after an investigation proved that she escorted a 17-year-old member of her boys track squad to the school's prom. As reported by the Associated Press, 41-year-old Melissa Bowerman, the daughter-in-law of waffle-sole inventor Bill Bowerman, escorted an unnamed 17-year-old on the Condon (Ore.) High track team to the school's prom after the runner told her he lacked a date for the prom. Bowerman, who is married to 73-year-old co-coach Jon Bowerman and also has a son on the same team, told the AP that she offered to take the student to prom in part to motivate him to improve his grades in his English class. "If they go on [academic] probation and suspension, then they can't go to the track meets," Melissa Bowerman told the AP. "I said, 'OK, I will go with you, but we've got to talk about English first. You're going to do better in English.'" Bowerman insisted that she and her date only danced to "a couple" of slow songs and spent the rest of the evening playing ping pong and foosball. The student's father also said he was OK with the coach escorting his son because, "Melissa has been like a surrogate mom to these kids for years." The handling of Bowerman's dismissal wasn't done in the most tactful manner, either. With the Condon team preparing to load a bus for the state track and field meet, the Bowermans were told that Melissa could not ride on the team bus with the athletes, her husband and other parents. In the meantime, Jon Bowerman has said he will consider resigning from the program if his wife is not allowed to return, a stunning turn of events just weeks after the school officially inaugurated a brand new, state of the art track that was made possible by a trade of the family heirloom Bowerman waffle iron that Jon's father, former Oregon track coach and Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman, used to make running shoe soles for Nike that provided better traction. "The only thing we've done wrong is build them a new track and get uniforms and build them a powerhouse program," Jon Bowerman told the AP. "If she doesn't come back, I'm not coming back."

Track coach, daughter-in-law of Nike co-founder, fired for taking senior to prom

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