Archive for August 2010
MW: Mission Accomplished, Almost (Sort Of)
Posted by: chatblu on: August 31, 2010
Today, our peripatetic President, freshly back from (another) vacation, is off to Fort Bliss to visit the troops. He will then will return to deliver a prime time (8 pm Eastern) Oval Office speech on the end of the combat mission in Iraq. The Chicago Tribune’s “The Swamp” says: Deputy press secretary Bill Burton said Tuesday that [...]
MW: Real Feminists Don’t Support Sarah Palin. Or, the Democratic Party.
Posted by: madamab on: August 30, 2010
- In: Current Events | Feminism | Hillary Clinton | misogyny | Morning Widdershins | Obama | Open Thread | Patriarchy | Politics | Propaganda | Sexism | Women
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fem·i·nism / ˈfeməˌnizəm/ • n. the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men. Source: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English, 2009. Widdershins, ever since I read about Sarah Palin’s Facebook post on the anniversary of women’s suffrage, I have been in an incoherent rage. Why? Because [...]
Lazy Sunday Evening: The Emmys
Posted by: chatblu on: August 29, 2010
Roll out the red carpet! It’s almost time for the Emmys. Hollywood’s finest will be in the audience anticipating the announcements of the best of the television genres. Here’s a site that will let you download a ballot. Grab one, and see how you do against the experts. Have a good evening, and I’ll BBL. [...]
Lazy Sunday: Best Beatles Songs
Posted by: chatblu on: August 29, 2010
- In: Morning Widdershins | Music | You Tube
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Rolling Stone magazine released their list of 100 best Beatles’ songs. The Beatles are a great group that really bridged any number of generations. I’m going to do my five faves, to leave plenty of room for commentary. Here they are, alphabetically: (1) Come Together (1969 -Abbey Road Album). The song was supposedly inspired by [...]
MW: Restoring Sanity
Posted by: chatblu on: August 28, 2010
Two score and seven years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his ringing “I have a dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial as a part of the famous March on Washington. This tem minute speech may well be one of the most important of the twentieth century, right up there with [...]
Feminist Friday: An Open Letter to Both Parties
Posted by: madamab on: August 27, 2010
- In: Feminism | Government | Hillary Clinton | misogyny | Morning Widdershins | Open Thread | Patriarchy | Politics | Sexism | Women | You Tube
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Dear Leaders of the Democratic and Republican Parties, Please allow me to introduce myself. I am an American woman of voting age. There are tens of millions of voters like me. I have voted Democratic in every Presidential election except 2008, when I voted Republican in protest against the Democrats’ sexist, scandal-ridden, elitist, unqualified and [...]
MW: The Real ID, Florida Style
Posted by: chatblu on: August 26, 2010
- In: Civil Liberties | Current Events | Democratic Values | Government | Open Thread | Patriarchy | Women | You Tube
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Florida residents were forwarned that we would need some more items to verify our identity when we renewed our driver’s licenses beginning in January of this year. We were told that we would need our birth cerificate (or some such proof of identity), our social security cards, and two pieces of verification of our address (utility bill, [...]
Activist Wednesday: A Tragic Anniversary, A Worthy Cause
Posted by: madamab on: August 25, 2010
- In: Class Warfare | Ecology | Morning Widdershins | Music | Open Thread
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A tragic anniversary is coming up, and it’s not September 11th. It’s August 29th, the day when the levees failed and New Orleans was drowned; when Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast. This will be the fifth year after the disaster, and not only is there still plenty of work to be done [...]
MW: Got No Political Home? Welcome to the Club.
Posted by: madamab on: August 23, 2010
As the 2010 elections approach, more and more people are saying they don’t know what they’re going to do this year. Former die-hard Dems have lost their enthusiasm for the Party; former Repubs have as well, and in fact, have already formed a “Tea Party” made up of the most radical elements of their base. [...]
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