October, 2008
Women’s equality under the law: nice while it lasted
People tend to think that the world they’re born into is normal, even immutable. That’s a big reason why young people in the West take women’s rights for granted. How could it be any different?
I’m just old enough to have experienced the world before women’s equality under the law was in place. [...]
Tonight on BlogTalkRadio: Chewing the Fat with Ophelia
The New Agenda is announcing a new BlogTalkRadio show tonight at 10pm EST! Here’s the post from The New Agenda blog:
Chewing the Fat with Ophelia
October 12, 2008
by The New Agenda
Can we talk?
Are you sick of these lying politicians? Are you tired of picking up the newspaper just to find more vile personal [...]
Larry Summers is advising Obama
Larry Summers. Larry Summers. Yep, that guy. Mr. “Mommy Truck and Daddy Truck.” The former President of Harvard who was fired after saying that women are intrinsically inferior to men in math and science skills (a statement he made, by the way, to an audience of women scientists).
And lo [...]
The Perfect Storm (an observation in passing)
My personal political memory only goes back as far as the early 1970s, so I’m not exactly the Voice of the Ages. But within that limited frame of reference, I note the following:
1. Barack Obama is the most corrupt national politician I’ve seen since Richard Nixon. Based on how he’s run his [...]
The Beavis and Butthead school of journalism strikes again
Last weekend Slate Magazine, a Washington Post subsidiary, featured on the front page of its website a cartoon showing Sarah Palin on a stool wearing a skimpy red dress, breasts popping out, with a bible squeezed between her bare thighs. In the accompanying article, The Sexy Puritan, author Tom Perrotta mused aloud that Sarah [...]
Racism is the new “why do you hate America?”
In the period following 9/11, the Bush Administration did its best to impose a police state mentality on the country, with any and all dissent immediately branded as “unpatriotic.” Remember? If you questioned the war, or criticized the administration, or suggested that perhaps it wasn’t a great idea to invade a country [...]
President of L.A. NOW endorses Palin
From The New Agenda blog:
At the rally in California, Shelly Mandell introduced Palin with these words: “I know Sarah Palin cares about women’s rights. As vice president, she will fight for you. She cares about our children and she cares about women’s lives.”
And then, as she handed over the microphone to Sarah Palin, Mandell [...]
Because we haven’t had one in four days
I thought Palin acquitted herself well last night, but I don’t have time to write about it today. I’ve just barely got a few moments here to do something much more critical, which is to post another ALPACA PICTURE!!!
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Feminists all over the world need to be pressuring governments to define rape as torture and persecution. Please sign this U.K. petition, and then post or email the link to help spread the word:
To: UK Government
Asylum from Rape Petition
Women and children are 80% of refugees and displaced people worldwide. International courts have recognized [...]
Just imagine: a woman in the White House who’s proud to call herself a feminist
From the CBS interview:
Katie Couric: Do you consider yourself a feminist?
Sarah Palin: I do. I’m a feminist who believes in equal rights and I believe that women certainly today have every opportunity that a man has to succeed and to try to do it all anyway. And I’m very, very thankful that I’ve been brought [...]
