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Category Archives: politics
Boys Being Boys (on this debt ceiling “crisis”)is Very Ugly
I wonder: has everyone else following this manufactured crisis about raising the debt ceiling noticed that it’s just a bunch of men playing a high school game of chicken? Each side is racing their car towards the other and hoping … Continue reading
Posted in politics, Women and Feminism
Tagged feminism, men behaving badly, the boys club
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Michele Bachmann is Not a Feminist but She is Running for President
Michele Bachmann is not a feminist but she is running for President. Michele Bachmann, a congresswoman and a lawyer, is running for president. Michele Bachmann is a mother and a foster mother and a wife and she is running for … Continue reading
Posted in politics, Women and Feminism
Tagged empowerment, feminism, Michele Bachmann, president, women
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What the Rally for Sanity and Obama Have in Common
On the bus ride home to the Shenandoah Valley with some of the nearly two hundred people who made the hours-long journey to the Rally for Sanity, October 30, we were fired up. We were talking politics, the Democratic Party, … Continue reading
Why Are We in Afghanistan? And Other Pressing Questions
Bill Press had a discussion on the “war” in Afghanistan on his radio show this morning. I put the word “war” in quotation marks because it remains difficult for me to decide whether this is an actual war or another … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Essays, politics
Tagged afghanistan, existential despair, peace, sex, Snooki, the media, war
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What Do You Believe?
Belief systems are a funny thing. They’re hard felt, hard won and nearly impossible to shake. And unfortunately, most of them are often built on things other than facts. Polls frequently tell us what the American public “believes.” We “believe” … Continue reading
I Am Giving Up Hope for Lent
In the Christian tradition, Lent is a period of forty days, beginning today, Ash Wednesday, when the observant go into a period of denial, penance, and prayer, and, more commonly give up something important to them until Easter. While, as … Continue reading
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What A Difference A Year Makes
Arianna Huffington ‘s headline in HuffPo Tuesday was “Obama One Year Later: The Audacity of Winning vs The Timidity of Governing.” On Wednesday’s Hardball MSNBC pundit Chris Matthews was pissed: he thought Obama had already become an incumbent insider who … Continue reading
The Shriver Report on Women
I don’t think I or any woman I know needs to read “The Shriver Report: A Women’s Nation Changes Everything” by Maria Shriver and the Center for American Progress. Although the Report is being highly touted as important on several … Continue reading
Women’s (and Men’s) Work Still Not Done
I don’t think I or any woman I know needs to read The Shriver Report: A Women’s Nation Changes Everything http://www.awomansnation.com/ by Maria Shriver and The Center for American Progress. Although the Report is being highly touted as important on … Continue reading
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