Required Reading for the 4th
Anne revamps the Declaration of Independence 1776 for 2005. Rana does a similar exercise.
...read moreIWF and the mile-high club
Amanda blogs on a sickening op-ed by Charlotte Allen from the “independent” women’s forum about longing for the days when air travel was a bastion of sexism: Why are Airline Flight Attendents so Awful — and so Ugly? (yes that is actually the title). An excerpt: Frankly, even as a woman, I miss the old [...]
...read morePro-Life? Go fuck yourself.
You know it’s a bad day when Dan Savage is totally and completely wrong. A young woman writes in: Q. My boyfriend and I are 18, and we’re in love. We’ve been together for almost four years. He recently decided that he is against abortion, to the point where he won’t have sex with me [...]
...read moreWhy, Sandra, why???
I have been away from the internet for a few days, and when I opened my gmail today I was shocked to find a semi-frantic email from my friend Julie about Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s resignation. Why is this important? MoveOn breaks it down: Below are just a few examples of landmark cases [...]
...read moreFeminist Men
Jim of Feminist Men emailed me a few questions about my views of male feminists, which I found to be very interesting. He’s looking for even more viewpoints, so if you have some spare time, answer away: 1. What can men do to end sexism? 2. Do men have a place in the feminist movement? [...]
...read moreTrackbacks
I have no idea why all the trackbacks are porn sites. I had nothing to do with this. I suspect Lauren didn’t either. I blame George Bush.
...read moreLa Bella Vita
Hey, wanna see a whole bunch of pictures of Italy? Ok! (Warning: There are, indeed, a whole bunch of pictures after you click “more.” This may be exceptionally boring). Sailing near Villasimus:
...read moreMending the church-state split
Noah Feldman, will you marry me? My favorite NYU Law professor, author of a handful of fabulous books (I would enthusiastically recommend After Jihad: American and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy and What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building) and one of the many reasons I would love to attend NYU [...]
...read moreLiving in the Green
President Bush claims that signing onto the Kyoto protocol would “wreck” the U.S. economy. And the lovely Portland, Oregon — one of my personal favorite U.S. cities — is proving him wrong. Newly released data show that Portland, America’s environmental laboratory, has achieved stunning reductions in carbon emissions. It has reduced emissions below the levels [...]
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