Then we get the question—what does feminism do for men? The answer: a whole hell of a lot. –From Goddess Musings *throwing some water on the men who just fainted* By the mere (mere? ha!) questioning of gender roles in…
Disability & Queerness
Gender reaches into disability; disability wraps around class; class strains against abuse; abuse snarls into sexuality; sexuality folds on top of race… everything finally piling into a single human body. To write about any aspect of identity, any aspect of…
Something That Isn’t Political
Well, I suppose you could MAKE it political, but it isn’t overtly political. HOW COUPLES MANAGE PARENTING FORECASTS LATER MARITAL QUALITY, STUDY FINDS The results suggest that programs for parents-to-be should devote attention to how they will coparent together, Schoppe-Sullivan…
Revisiting the Employment/Economy Issue
Bush Allies, Falling Down on Jobs It’s also true that the jobless rate “is understating the labor market distress,” says Jared Bernstein of the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank. If you lose your job, it’s tougher to find…
The New Pentagon Papers
From MoveOn via mrpsyklops: “Salon.com has just broken a major story detailing how the Pentagon created a special office to manipulate intelligence data on Iraq and WMDs. It’s written by Karen Kwiatkowski, a military officer who watched this unit at…
The 14 Defining Characteristics Of Fascism
The 14 Defining Characteristics Of Fascism Posted April 7, 2003 thepeoplesvoice.org by Dr. Lawrence Britt Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14…
Today’s Miscellany
How Bush Helped My Marriage McClellan gets reamed about Bush’s service record From therevealerfeed—Unfortunately, I don’t read Hebrew: Too hum-drum? Max Gross recommends J.T. Waldman’s “180-page graphic novel [about] an orphan… taken to a brothel. She meets an alcoholic, lecherous…
Bush & Jobs
The following comes to you courtesy of rightchristians Jobs flatlined under Bush–a touch of the overseer’s lash It is all of that, but I’d go one step further: flatlined jobs are exactly what Bush wants. To them, the chart above…
Co-Abode: Single Mothers Share Housing
I’ve meant several times to mention this here, and keep forgetting: Co-abode: Single Mothers Share Housing I no longer remember where I first heard it mentioned, but it sounds like a great idea. Here’s the basic stuff from their site.…
Fundamentalism Redux
First—why does the Cobb library have a separate category for “Christianity—Controversial literature” in their catalog? Is that an official Dewey designation, their own thing, what? I’ve never run across it in any other system before. I’m into one of my…