Archive for February 2010
Morning Widdershins: Something’s Gotta Give
Posted by: chatblu on: February 28, 2010
- In: Current Events | Economy | Healthcare | Morning Widdershins | Obama | Open Thread | Politics
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Washington is an absolute mess, and the states are not far behind. Health care continues to struggle, although the President has indicated that he is nearing the end of his tether, and he wants to move forward. (Cue the brass band.) Today, Rasmussen reports a new low – his approval rating is -21. I watched [...]
Morning Widdershins: This is Our First Post About Bulgaria!
Posted by: madamab on: February 27, 2010
- In: Feminism | Morning Widdershins | Open Thread | Patriarchy | Politics
- 32 Comments
No, seriously. I have a friend who’s a political science professor. His lifestyle allows him to travel a lot, and he’s been all over the world. One summer he actually thought he’d plan a trip to Bulgaria, but when he found out what it was really like, he quickly discarded that notion, and we’ve joked [...]
Feminist Friday: This Too Shall Pass?
Posted by: madamab on: February 26, 2010
- In: Current Events | Ecology | Economy | Feminism | Healthcare | Human Rights | Morning Widdershins | Obama | Open Thread | Patriarchy | Politics
- 53 Comments
I am now going to say something odd: The actions of government actually matter to the citizens of that government’s country. This is an odd thing to say these days, because our media culture seems to feel otherwise. The talking heads, instead of talking about policy, harp on alleged “winners and losers,” as if we’re [...]
Morning Widdershins: Health Care Summit LiveBlog
Posted by: chatblu on: February 25, 2010
Today we will do our best to live-blog the health care summit, which will be televised on major cable networks from 10 am until approximately 4 pm. The President has agreed to meet with the Republicans on this matter, to quote POLITICO, “………to make congressional Republicans look like a bunch of whiny, cynical, ideologically bankrupt [...]
Activist Wednesday: The Assumption of Bad Intentions
Posted by: madamab on: February 24, 2010
- In: Healthcare | Morning Widdershins | Obama | Open Thread | Politics | Propaganda
- 37 Comments
First, the activism: Tomorrow is the much-vaunted and anticipated bi-partisan health care summit, televised for our delectation and analysis. (We’ll have a liveblog that day – I hope some of you will be able to watch it, because I’ll be at work and will have to depend on you!) Not so shockingly, Physicians for a [...]
Morning Widdershins: Miss Me Yet?
Posted by: chatblu on: February 23, 2010
- In: Economy | Morning Widdershins | Obama | Open Thread | Politics | Snark | War
- 36 Comments
Well, the short and Southern ladylike answer would be “No, sir. Can’t say as I do”. The actual, somewhat expurgated response follows: Jeebus frickin’ Christ, man, are you kidding??? I think of you every single day as I look at the mammoth debt, both public and private, that you left in your wake. I think [...]
Morning Widdershins: Through the Looking-Glass
Posted by: chatblu on: February 22, 2010
- In: Current Events | Economy | Healthcare | Morning Widdershins | Open Thread | Politics
- 71 Comments
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!” –Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There I honestly thought that we had lived through the looking-glass during the 2008 campaign – up was down, experience was bad, cooperative [...]
Activist/Feminist Friday: Defining Feminism, Part Deux
Posted by: madamab on: February 19, 2010
- In: Feminism | Hillary Clinton | misogyny | Morning Widdershins | Open Thread | Patriarchy | Sexism | Women
- 55 Comments
Monday’s post got quite contentious, and sadly, a bit nasty. I was even called a “white middle-class cultural imperialist” for trying to define feminism. This bothers me a lot, mainly because “cultural imperialist” is a somewhat less obvious way of saying “racist.” Hooray! I haven’t been called that for almost a year! (Oddly, I didn’t [...]
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