Archive for July 2010
MW: Cultural change at the barrel of a gun?
Posted by: bluelyon on: July 31, 2010
- In: Afghanistan | Human Rights | misogyny | Morning Widdershins | Patriarchy | Propaganda | Women
- 10 Comments
Peter Daou’s heart is in the right place when he tweets: Negative reaction from (male) liberal peers when I suggest oppression, rape & slaughter of women/girls might justify military intervention And: Keep getting asked if we should also consider intervention to save raped and ravaged women/girls in Congo and elsewhere. Answer: of course. I understand [...]
Feminist Friday: Saddest. Headline. Ever.
Posted by: madamab on: July 30, 2010
- In: Democratic Values | Feminism | Healthcare | Human Rights | Morning Widdershins | Obama | Open Thread | Patriarchy | Propaganda
- 14 Comments
To wit: “Abortion provision threatens Dems.” This headline implies what we all know to be true, now: that the Democrats are no longer the party that protects women’s rights. How else could they be threatened by anything to do with abortion, which is (barely) still a legal procedure protected by the Supreme Court’s 1972 decision [...]
MW: The Easiest Solution
Posted by: bluelyon on: July 29, 2010
- In: Civil Liberties | Government | Religion
- 25 Comments
It seems to me the easiest solution would be for everyone to pray in their offices or cars before they got to the meeting. I go to business meetings all the time at work and we never pray before those. I also participate in non-profit meetings outside of work. We never pray before those either [...]
Snarkalicious Wednesday: Oh, No, MoDo!
Posted by: madamab on: July 28, 2010
- In: Morning Widdershins | Obama | Open Thread | Propaganda | racism
- 26 Comments
There’s been a lot of activism around here lately, and we really deserve a snark break. And who better to skewer than the Woman Who Hates Everyone, Maureen Dowd? Everyone in the universe has now weighed in on the Shirley Sherrod situation, which means that of course, our dearest MoDo must not be left out. [...]
Obama, FDR, and Santa Claus
Posted by: bluelyon on: July 27, 2010
From the DSCC fundraising email I received the other day: Dear friend, This week, Democrats shattered the Republican unemployment insurance filibuster, and President Obama signed the most sweeping reform of Wall Street since the Great Depression. [ . . . ] Some observers say no president and Congress have accomplished more since FDR. Say what? I [...]
MW: Plumes, Seepage and Action
Posted by: madamab on: July 26, 2010
- In: Breaking News | Ecology | Government | Morning Widdershins | Obama | Open Thread
- 13 Comments
BP’s well at Deepwater Horizon has been capped and re-capped, and unpopular President Tony “I want my life back” Hayward is finally being replaced. August, and the completion of the drilling of the relief wells, are both fast approaching. The corporate media seems to be giving off an air of “Move along, folks, nothing to [...]
MW: Lazy Sunday – Julie!
Posted by: bluelyon on: July 25, 2010
My love for Julie Andrews goes back to when I was eight years old. It was 1964 and mom had promised to take us to the Royal Theater in Waikiki (not the drive in!) to see Mary Poppins. I remember racing home from school for fear that if I was late, there’d be no movie. I was [...]
MW: INOF! (It’s Never Obama’s Fault!)
Posted by: madamab on: July 24, 2010
The convolutions and pretzelifications of the corporate media, the “progressive” blogosphere and the Obama Administration itself with regard to the Shirley Sherrod affair, are becoming desperately hilarious. Yesterday morning on CNN, the author of “The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing our Culture,” Andrew Keen, promoted the idea that only “professional” journalists [...]
Feminist Friday: Outsourced!
Posted by: madamab on: July 23, 2010
Widdershins, I hope you’ll indulge me in my tale of woe today. It’s not exactly about feminism, but last time I checked, I was a woman; and this is my story. Although it seems strange, I, though already a contractor, was outsourced yesterday. It happened like this: I’ve been working at this firm since December of [...]
MW: In a nutshell
Posted by: bluelyon on: July 22, 2010
- In: Current Events | Obama | Politics | racism | Sexism
- 31 Comments
The recent flap over the Shirley Sherrod firing is a crystal clear example of everything that is wrong with the Democratic Party, as it stands now, and why there appears to be no hope for it whatsoever. Krugman nails it: What’s shocking here isn’t the behavior of the right, which was par for the course. It’s the seemingly limitless [...]
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