March 1990 Teen Life: One-Night Stands, Pick-Up Lines & Mother Teresa

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Sassy embarks upon its third year with a fun, kicky feature on a girl whose parents committed her to a mental institution for what sure seem like spurious reasons. Christina gets heteronormative about one-night-stands, starting with the assumption that you, a girl, might not want to have one. A list of the 20 coolest women hasn’t aged well the whole way through (although “Mom” probably still rocks). All this plus another weird short story, Young MC abandoning his whole ethos to pretend he doesn’t use pick-up lines, all the ginseng news you can handle, and much much more!

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Episode Rundown

It Is March 1990

Spine Line

Feature: She’s Not Crazy

Feature: One-Night Stand Prevention Kit

Feature: Your (And Our) 20 Coolest Women Ever

Fiction: Maury The Mouse

Body Talk

What He Said: Do You Use Pick-Up Lines?

Help

Stuff You Wrote

Goodbye For Now

Episode Notes

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"Senators launch investigation into child abuse allegations at treatment facilities" at NBCNews.com
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“I Want To Disown My Demonic Daughter” at Slate’s Care And Feeding (subscription required)
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"Jodie Foster on her 'interesting and fraught' relationship with her mother and being the breadwinner from age SEVEN" on DailyMail.co.uk
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"N.Y. Charity Scandal Leads to Indictments" at LATimes.com
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Sylvia Plachy on Wikipedia
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"How HGH cheats hit the end of the line" at TheGuardian.com
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"Building dedicated to Barbara Jordan in the Texas Capitol Complex" at KVUE.com
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Barbara Jordan at the Texas State Historical Association
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"Why Mother Teresa is still no saint to many of her critics" at WashingtonPost.com
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The Maury Chronicles on Amazon
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"6 Strange Dangers of Blowing Your Nose Too Hard" on GetCareFreeMD.com
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"11 Revelations from the Live 'Cheers' Reunion with Ted Danson, George Wendt, and John Ratzenberger" at Cracked.com
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"'Simpsons' Showrunner Matt Selman Has Read Your Mean Tweets" at Cracked.com
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