politics
Tenured Radical reports on Teabagger March on Washington
Tenured Radical gives an excellent first-hand account of her encounter with protesters at last weekend’s march at the nation’s capital.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )RIP Senator Edward Kennedy
via Historiann (and many others). I’ve been sitting in my office most of the day thinking about how to craft something that recognizes Ted Kennedy’s many flaws when it came to women (e.g. the Chappaquiddik accident), while also acknowledging his accomplishments, but as usual, Historiann beat me too it.
Here’s some other blog entries with which [...]
Thoughts on Whole Foods Boycott
By now, many of you have no doubt heard about the boycott of Whole Foods, launched by Single Payer Action in response to an editorial in the Wall Street Journal by Whole Food CEO John Mackey. I do agree that there are parts of this article that are aggravating (I made a smart-assed remark on [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Is This America — local edition
I was out of the country during the shit storm national discussion on race that ensued over the arrest of Harvard University Prof. Henry Louis Gates. The only reason I was aware of it at all is that CNN was the only English channel I could access in most hotels (some had BBC as well), [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Is this America? Whites Only Pool in Philadelphia
via ColorOfChange.org. Just returned from the SCHY conference to this ugly report. Is this America in 2009?
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Echidne on Palin « Feminist Law Professors
Echidne on Palin « Feminist Law Professors.
More sexist crapola from faux-gressive blogs. After I posted my last message on this topic, a friend of mine on Facebook asked if Palin’s resignation and the ensuing blowback has set back women in politics. My answer was that because Palin is a mass of contradictions it may not [...]
Sarah Palin goes to Seneca Falls
via Feminist Law Professors, who calls the visit “cringeworthy.” I’m not so sure — let’s keep in mind that these sound bites are often taken out of context. Also, let’s face it, a lot of so-called progressive columnists like to make Palin look like a stupid hillbilly. [who the hell cares about her pedicure -- [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Obedience/Resistance
In her sermon at Trinity Episcopal Church in Collinsville, our rector asked us to reflect on what obedience to God means to us. As a women’s historian, and this being Women’s History Month, I immediately thought of Susan B. Anthony’s statement after being fined for the “crime” of casting a vote, “Resistance to tyranny is [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Letter to the New York Post
Courtesy of Color of Change via Facebook:
Dear Friend,
Yesterday, the day after President Obama signed his stimulus bill into law, the NY Post ran a cartoon depicting the bill’s “author” as a dead monkey, covered in blood after being shot by police. You can see the image by clicking on the link below.
In the face of [...]
Just because you quote Abigail Adams doesn’t make you a feminist
In her budget address, Governor Jodi Rell used the following quote from Abigail Adams’ letter to her son John Quincy Adams, written on January 13, 1780:
“It is not in the still calm of life … that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call [...]
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