Archive for December 2009
MW: It’s Time for a New Nominating Process
Posted by: chatblu on: December 9, 2009
- In: Morning Widdershins | Obama | Open Thread | Politics
- 27 Comments
CNN reports that Democrats are considering changes to the nominating process. Plans are underway for a new primary calendar, and a lesser role for “superdelegates”. The 2008 process was controversial, and even James Clyburn acknowledged that while the contest “yielded a great candidate” (his words, not mine), problems did arise. Per Rep. Clyburn, “It was not [...]
Morning Widdershins: The Haps, and Activist, Uh, Tuesday!
Posted by: madamab on: December 8, 2009
- In: Current Events | Feminism | Healthcare | Hillary Clinton | Human Rights | misogyny | Morning Widdershins | Obama | Open Thread | Politics | United Nations | War
- 41 Comments
I’m sorry I jumped the gun, Widdershins, but there’s just so much going on I had to tell you all about it! First of all, the Massachussetts Democratic Primary election for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat is being held today. Martha Coakley, the Massachussetts Attorney General, is the frontrunner, and if she wins, she will be [...]
Morning Widdershins: Cherchez La Femme!
Posted by: chatblu on: December 7, 2009
- In: Economy | Feminism | Morning Widdershins | Open Thread | Patriarchy | Sexism | Women
- 35 Comments
For some months, I have found that the most unvarnished news might be found across the water in the British newspapers. Here’s a dinger that has not been addressed on the American scene: France is mulling a legislative move to force gender neutrality into the male-dominated French business world by compelling all corporations listed on [...]
Morning Widdershins: What’s The Plan, Man?
Posted by: madamab on: December 6, 2009
What’s going on with the latest health care kabuki theater in the “progressive” regressive blogosphere? Well, apparently quite a bit, in the last couple of days. Let’s review. Ezra Klein has already dutifully picked up on the cues I spoke of last week, and has begun asplaining to us dummies out here how the public [...]
Morning Widdershins: What Fresh Hell Is This?
Posted by: chatblu on: December 5, 2009
- In: Current Events | Morning Widdershins | Obama | Open Thread | War
- 48 Comments
The immortal Dorothy Parker was said to have answered both door and telephone with “What fresh hell is this?”. Ms. Parker was clearly ahead of her time, as that is now my automatic response to watching the news, reading the newspaper, and/or scanning the internet. The freshest of fresh hells is the escalation of the [...]
Feminist Friday: War (on Women) Is Peace
Posted by: madamab on: December 4, 2009
- In: Feminism | Human Rights | Morning Widdershins | Obama | Open Thread | Patriarchy | Sexism | War | Women
- 37 Comments
Lately, I’ve been hearing a lot of noise from lefty and women’s rights organizations about the next Big Thing: The rights of Afghan women and girls. Eleanor Smeal’s group, Feminist.org (yes, she’s one of the ones who helped with the infamous Obama Ms. Magazine cover), has a campaign for them. NOW and The Nation have also jumped [...]
MW: The Twelve Days of Obamamas
Posted by: chatblu on: December 3, 2009
Happy December, Widdershins. Almost everyone can find something to celebrate during the month. There’s Chanukah, Christmas, Solstice, Kwanzaa, and probably several more that I don’t know anything about. Here is my December kickoff song, to get us in the mood for merriment. On the first day of Christmas, Obama gave to me: the largest deficit [...]
Action Wednesday: World AIDS Day, Health Care Activism
Posted by: madamab on: December 2, 2009
- In: Feminism | Gay Rights | Healthcare | Human Rights | Morning Widdershins | Open Thread | Women
- 25 Comments
Yesterday was World AIDS Day. I can’t believe how long we have been dealing with this disease. I remember the first time I heard about it was when I was a sophomore in college in 1986 (yes, I’m 42, let’s just move on, shall we?). The ignorance was so palpable at that time that the one ”out” gay [...]
Morning Widdershins: Change You Can Xerox!
Posted by: madamab on: December 1, 2009
- In: Morning Widdershins | Obama | Open Thread | Politics | Snark | War
- 39 Comments
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Barack Obama is completely, utterly predictable. Just pick the thing you, as a liberal, are wishing with every corpuscle in your body he won’t do, and the DINO bastard will do it (and his enablers in the “progressive” blogosphere will pretend they think it’s mahhhhhvelous and [...]
L 2012 – Support Your Local Lefties!
Recent Comments