"journal" Articles & Blogs:
The Wall Street Journal Runs Front-Page Picture of Elena Kagan Playing Softball, of All Things
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This morning’s Wall Street Journal featured a photo taken 17 years ago of Elena Kagan playing softball. Various gay and lesbian groups—and Politico’s Ben Smith—have cried “innuendo!” but the Journal has denied any sly subli...[Read on] |
Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave: How to Escape the Internet
| Today’s Wall Street Journal exposes the growing trend of the Internet being used as a tool of procrastination. (Surely you, person reading this on a Tuesday at four p.m., have not heard of anything like this.) Easily distracted novelists seek solace in ...[Read on] |
Parker Spitzer, Cable’s Favorite Duo, May Be Disbanded
| Middling cable network CNN may dispose of one half of the Parker Spitzer team. Guess which half? “CNN is considering replacing Kathleen Parker,” according to today’s Wall Street Journal. Rumors of a Parker departure have been swirling since as early...[Read on] |
Lost, Found: Abby Sunderland, Teenage Sailor
| Photo via Abby's Blog.Good news! A rescue plane made contact with Abby Sunderland, the 16-year-old California sailor who set out to complete a nonstop solo trip around the world. (Had she succeeded, she would have been the youngest person to do so.) On Th...[Read on] |
Medical Journal: Pope 'Distorted' Condom Science to 'Promote Catholic Doctrine'
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Pope Benedict XVI under fire once again for saying condom use just aggravates spread of HIV/AIDS; some blast Church for being out of touchPope Benedict XVI on Condoms | Today 11:05 am
Pope Benedict XVI has been receiving scads of bad press as of late.
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Quick Hit: Films for the Feminist Classroom
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Check out this great new resource for gender studies professors and feminist facilitators, an online journal called Films for the Feminist Classroom. It's being edited and produced by the Rutgers-based editorial offices of Signs: Journal of Women in Cultu...[Read on] |
Mad Men women writers part whatever
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I don’t know why this is one of my bugaboos but every since Mad Men put all its female writers out in the Wall Street Journal before last year’s premiere and declared the show was basically written by women I’ve been watching the women writers on ...[Read on] |
Worst A.P. U.S. History Project Ever Involves Wearing K.K.K. Outfits to School Cafeteria
| A Georgia teacher with simply terrible judgment is experiencing quite a bit of backlash after she allowed students to wear Ku Klux Klan robes in a high-school cafeteria. It was a lesson about racism, and how destructive it is, obviously. “You cannot dis...[Read on] |
A Story of Survival – Joan Hyler
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One of the first “Hollywood” people who reached out to me when I started writing the blog was Joan Hyler. That totally made my day. Joan Hyler is one of the legendary female managers in the business. She’s the shit. Some of her long time cli...[Read on] |
Women Shown as Better Legislators
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This post was submitted by Tatenda Musapatike, WCF Communications Fellow
The American Journal of Political Science will soon release a study that shows that women politicians are more effective...
This is a content summary only. Visit Women and Politics ...[Read on] |
War Watch: October Deadliest Month for Americans in Afghanistan
| • Taliban gunmen attacked a guest house in central Kabul this morning, killing six U.N. employees, one of whom was an American security guard. (New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, BBC) • On Tuesday, eight American soldiers ...[Read on] |
Does Best Buy Own the Word “Geek”?
| Electronics giant Best Buy issued a cease-and-desist letter to a Web site, Newegg.com, that was encouraging users to “Geek On.” Best Buy offers the services of a team of uniformed tech savants, known as the Geek Squad, who will assist customers in set...[Read on] |
The Proposal: To See or Not To See
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The Proposal, Sandra Bullock’s first movie in two years opens today on a little over 3,000 screens. That is a mega wide release. We are talking big mainstream Hollywood film release numbers. I haven’t seen the film. I tried but couldn’t get ...[Read on] |
Supreme Court Weighs In on Janet Jackson Wardrobe Malfunction
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Janet Jackson’s notorious wardrobe malfunction continues to cause uproarPost | Today 2:50 pm
The Supreme Court today sent the case on Janet Jackson’s infamous wardrobe malfunction back to an appeals court. A court last year ruled that CBS sh...[Read on] |
Study: Exercise Helps Reduce 'Bad' Cholesterol in Women
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Just one more reason to get off the couch and hit the gym or the great outdoors — your heart will thank you!Exercise Health Benefits for Women | 07/31/2009 10:30 am
We all knew exercise was good for our health, but we’re now finding out hitt...[Read on] |
2010 Green Car of the Year to be awarded at Los Angeles Auto Show
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Now in its fifth year, the Green Car of the Year(R) award honors environmental leadership in the automobile field and recognizes vehicles that are readily available to consumers during the award year. The prestigious award will be announced on Thursday, ...[Read on] |
Buy Me Love: Beatles Songs Reportedly Coming to iTunes
| Hot on the heels of Facebook’s quasi-resurrection of Google Wave—“It’s not e-mail”—comes an announcement from Apple. Though the big reveal is not scheduled until 10 a.m., last night, word broke that Steve Jobs might soon be welcoming the Beatl...[Read on] |
O.K. Sarah Palin Might Be Stupid, But Why Is That Bad?
| The neocons have a problem. The neocon wing of the Republican Party is the egghead wing, the foreign policy wing, the Jewish wing. So what to do about Sarah Palin, who is, relatively speaking, the antithesis of all of those things? An answer or, at any ra...[Read on] |
The Apple iPad: What Does It Do, and Why Would I Want One?
| The author holding an Apple iPad at today's event. A couple of days ago, I wrote a short piece for this site about what I expected the then-mythical Apple “tablet” to be. In a nutshell, my prediction was that this would be not an earth-shatter...[Read on] |
Michelle Obama - Get Girls Active in Sports to Decrease Obesity
| I'm the type of person that wants tangible results. And if I don't get them doing something one way, I'll stop and find out a better way to accomplish what I want. And my mindset is obviously a bit perplexing to people who just do as they are told an...[Read on] |
Mississippi River Poject: Highway 61 visited
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Artist (and good friend) Eve Beglarian is paddling, biking and hiking the length of the Mississippi River in search of musical inspiration. This is one in a series of journal entries.
Mac and I are now happily ensconced in the public library in Wabasha...[Read on] |
Mississippi River Project: Land of cotton
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Mississippi River Project: Go with the wind
| (Editors Note: Composer – and good friend – Eve Beglarian recently embarked on a year long odyssey kayaking the length of the Mississippi River from its source at Lake Itasca in Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. This is one in a series of journal en...[Read on] |
Could your pooch be the Luckiest Dog of NASCAR?
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I always enjoy seeing drivers pull up next to us at stoplights and do a double-take when they catch sight of Chaucer's happy face on one of our door magnets. Some read the words out loud ("Come Adventure with Me!" and Chaucer's website address). Others c...[Read on] |
Morningstar Commission Event: Inside the Hollywood Jewish Noggin
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The stories of Hollywood’s founding are legendary. The twitter version for the uninitiated: A bunch of jewish immigrants migrated from NY to LA and created this new industry. If you want the real story read Neal Gabler’s How the Jews Invented Holl...[Read on] |
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