Saturday, June 23, 2012

A Song for Saturday

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Dar Williams and the war on women:
Friday, June 22, 2012

More Thoughts on Blogging

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I have a post in the oven about this furor-provoking  Atlantic Monthly opinion piece .  "In the oven" sounds considerably more ...

Friday Fun

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1.  From George Takei's Facebook page: Note the second from the top.  It's the reigning mood of the Twilight series. 2. This...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

Foot-in-the-Mouth Disease Among Michigan Republicans

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Remember the Michigan Vagina Control Monologues? The ones in which Democratic State Representatives were not allowed to join: State Reps....

The Right To Work

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Those euphemisms are really funny.  Because the Right To Work laws pretty much should be called the Right To Workers laws.  Michigan, the s...

A Baby in the Briefcase! Look What Feminism Did!

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Here's something for you to ponder:  The role of the Atlantic Monthly in the gender wars.  I first spotted it when Caitlin Flanagan ...
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Life Is Complicated

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Sometimes I despair of people's desire for very simple solutions to complicated problems.  Life is complicated, human behavior is compl...

Let's Drop Ron Paul Into A Jungle

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Armed with a machete (I'm kinder than he would be) but nothing else.  That's the sort of world he desires, the sort of world he th...

Mitch McConnell: Lying Accidentally On Purpose?

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McConnell is the Senate Republican leader and he doesn't like the US tax system.   It's too progressive! In an interview that air...
Monday, June 18, 2012

Today's Picture

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From the Michigan State Capitol, on the reading of the Vagina Monologues.  Thanks to knuckles for the link: Credit. This links to ...

More On The Labor Market Sexism Study

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After thinking about the results (i.e. that men with stay-at-home-wives have more sexist views of women in the labor force) I believer that...

Are Men With Stay-At-Home-Wives More Sexist Than Men With Wives in the Labor Force?

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An interesting study missed my snake-eye view in early June.  It's really a group of studies , done in different ways, but all on the ...
Sunday, June 17, 2012

A Guest Post by Anna: A Feminist Literary Canon, Part Three: 1900-1950

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Adeline Virginia Woolf   ( 1882 –1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist  literary figures of the twe...

A Lullaby

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This is a Carelian/Karelian folk song If I understand it correctly, it was originally sung by Larin Paraske, a most interesting woman...
Friday, June 15, 2012

The Vagina Control Monologues

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Remember this , from yesterday? State Reps. Lisa Brown, D-West Bloomfield, and Barb Byrum, D-Onondaga, were told today that they wouldn’...

On Tipped Female Workers

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Getting your earnings mostly from tips is the lot of many in service industries.  It turns out that the usual gender gap in wages can be f...
Thursday, June 14, 2012

Meanwhile, in Michigan, Only Anti-Woman Politicians May Speak

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About this new Michigan House bill : The House bill, passed on a 70-39 vote, provides for sweeping new regulations and insurance require...

The-God-Made-Me-Do-It Initiative Failed in North Dakota

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North Dakotans voted down a law intended to reflect the desires of conservative Catholics: Now, another conservative state has deliver...

My Migraines

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Have a caretaker role.  Echidne goes traveling, for instance, visits lots of people, some of them fierce wingnuts, eats lots of unfamiliar ...

The Icelandish Miracle

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I bet you never read that before!  There has been the Irish miracle, of course, but not an Icelandish miracle.  Krugman reminds us that the...