Posted on November 17, 2009 by bostonboomer
Newsweek editor John Meacham has released an “official statement” defending the Sarah Palin cover:
“We chose the most interesting image available to us to illustrate the theme of the cover, which is what we always try to do,” Meacham said. “We apply the same test to photographs of any public figure, male or female: does the [...]
Filed under: Cost of Sexism | Tagged: Newsweek cover, Sarah Palin, sexism in the media | 108 Comments »
Posted on November 16, 2009 by bostonboomer
Good Morning Conflucians! I’m a little bit pressed for time this morning, because I have to get out of here earlier than usual to make copies of an exam for my class this afternoon. Nevertheless, I have a few stories to share with you before I rush out of here. You can [...]
Filed under: Barack Obama, Blogosphere, Clinton Derangement Syndrome, Cost of Sexism, Economy, Health Care Reform, Politics, morning news | Tagged: abortion, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, bowing to foreign leaders, China, currency policy, Health Care Reform, Morning News Links, Paul Krugman, protocol, Richard Nixon, Stupak amendment, trade deficit | 93 Comments »
Posted on November 13, 2009 by bostonboomer
Good Morning Conflucians! It’s a gloomy Friday the 13th here in the Boston area. I guess we’ll be getting hit with the tail end of Hurricane Ida over the next couple of days. I’m feeling a bit lethargic this morning, but I’ll try to locate a few interesting news links nonetheless. [...]
Filed under: Barack Obama, Cost of Sexism, Economy, Health Care Reform, Politics, broken promises, choice | Tagged: Blogosphere, Morning News Links, movies, Politics | 113 Comments »
Posted on November 11, 2009 by bostonboomer
No, I don’t mean the Catholic Church. I mean the super-secret, ultra-creepy fundamentalist sect that calls itself
“the Family,” or “the Fellowship,” and they consider themselves a “core” of men responsible for changing the world. “Hitler, Lenin, and many others understood the power of a small core of people,” instructs a document given to [...]
Filed under: Barack Obama, Cost of Sexism, Health Care Reform, Politics, broken promises, choice | Tagged: abortion, Barack Obama, Bart Stupak, evangelicals, fundamentalism, Health Care Reform, Jeff Sharlet, Jim Wallis, Joseph Pitts, Stupak amendment, The Family, theocracy | 154 Comments »
Posted on November 9, 2009 by bostonboomer
Good Morning, Conflucians! This morning more than ever, I’m so grateful for all of you, and so glad we have this blog where we can discuss, argue and rant about politics and news events. I can’t begin to imagine what I would have done with out TC and all of you Conflucians over [...]
Filed under: Barack Obama, Blogosphere, Cost of Sexism, Failbots, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gender Equity, Health Care Reform, abortion, broken promises | Tagged: broken promises, DINOs, Fort Hood massacre, Health Care Reform, Morning News Links, women's rights are human rights | 116 Comments »
Posted on October 5, 2009 by bostonboomer
Good Morning Everyone! Here are the latest news stories everyone is talking about.
Nobel Prize Announcement
The Nobel prize for medicine goes to Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak
Their work revealed how the chromosomes can be copied and has helped further our understanding on human ageing, cancer and stem cells.
Blackburn is from the University of [...]
Filed under: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Cost of Sexism, DOMA, Health Care Reform, LGBT rights, Politics | Tagged: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Business regulation, General David Petraeus, General Stanley McChrystal, GLBT rights, Health Care Report, Nobel Prize, Public Option, Second Amendment, Senator Charles Schumer, sports, Supreme Court | 22 Comments »
Posted on September 21, 2009 by Steven Mather
Gay-Lussac
The pressure of a fixed mass and fixed volume of a gas is directly proportional to the gas’s temperature.
This relationship is known as the Gay-Lussac’s Law and a pressure cooker is an example of the law in practice. Cooking under pressure creates the possibility of cooking with high temperature liquids because the boiling point of [...]
Filed under: Bad Bank, Barack Obama, Blogosphere, Campaign Finance Reform, Clinton Derangement Syndrome, Cost of Sexism, Democracy as a form of liberal goverment, Economy, FISA, Financial Meltdown of 2008, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gender Equity, General, Health Care Reform, Human Rights, Justice, LGBT rights, Liberalism, Politics, Recession/Depression 2008, Single Payer, Social Media, astroturf, big pharma, broken promises, choice, collective action, corruption, culture, feminism, financial bailout, foreign policy, government, racism | Tagged: bailout, civic virtue, civil liberties, civility, ethics, Health Care Reform, moral hazard, morality, Politics, recession, Single Payer, TARP | 18 Comments »
Posted on September 19, 2009 by Steven Mather
O’Keefe and Giles, in their portrayal of pimp and prostitute, reek of puerile classism. Were it not for the overwhelmingly noxious fumes emanating from the handful of ACORN employees who were apparently willing to enable a child prostitution ring exploiting illegal immigrants, the stink of the ill-informed moral superiority of O’Keefe and Giles would [...]
Filed under: Cost of Sexism, Gender Equity, General, Human Rights, Media, Politics, culture, domestic violence, feminism, sexism and misogyny | Tagged: ACORN, Big Government, child prostitution, Cotton Mather, Democratic Party, documentary, Fox News, Hannah Giles, illegal immigration, James O'Keefe, Obama, prostitution, Puritan, Puritanism, Republican Party, sting, US Congress, US Senate | 183 Comments »
Posted on August 4, 2009 by Steven Mather
While reading Dakinikat’s post on Geithner’s profanity-laced rant against Sheila Bair and Mary Shapiro I could not help but wonder how the dynamic would have been changed had either Bair or Shapiro been in Geithner‘s position and vice versa. This lead me to wonder if their gender might have influenced his performance tactic or if [...]
Filed under: Cost of Sexism, Economy, Financial Meltdown of 2008, Gender Equity, General, The Cost of Sexism, culture, domestic violence, feminism, financial bailout, sexism and misogyny | Tagged: capital accumulation, civility, family, feminism, gender division of labor, gender roles, marriage, Mary Shapiro, matriarchy, Mosuo matriarchy, Sheila Bair, Tim Geithner | 11 Comments »
Posted on July 24, 2009 by Steven Mather
Recent events in the United States and Canada, in which fathers and families treat their daughters in an inexcusable manner, compel me to release this draft of an incompletely distilled paper. I apologize for its length, but the topic is not amenable to a series of posts, and it may offer some understanding as to [...]
Filed under: Cost of Sexism, Gender Equity, General, Human Rights, Justice, Liberalism, culture, feminism, sexism and misogyny | Tagged: Aceh, adultery, honor killing, Human Rights, Ibn Khaldun, Islam, Justice, misogyny, stoning, violence against Women, Women's Rights | 110 Comments »
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