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Dose of Social Issues
The Gap...try it... you'll like it...
January 17, 2009
Love the baseball cap, and the Helmut Lang Collection quilted down coat. Love the Gucci wire rims and the "get back" stare. Hey.. wait a minute... isn't that dude Bernie Madoff in the building's solar heated, Nagachampa-scented, roof splash pool?
Won't his ankle bracelet get wet in the water? Yes, that is definitely Bernie ordering in sushi from Massa??... Wait a minute, what's going on here? I thought he was arrested for the largest Ponzi scheme in the history of the world. What is he doing getting a seaweed wrap and chest wax in the sauna?...
and to that I say ... no f*&%^ing fair, people!! (READ ON)
November 22, 2008
The furor over Proposition 8 is a transparent, religion-fueled side show. While blaming the enormous voter turnout of Blacks and Hispanics for ultimately creating a wave of support for a ban on gay marriage, the media lacked the sophistication to assess the effect that class and education -- rather than race -- played in the outcome of this explosive vote.
It is not always about race. It is not always about race. One more time with feeling, it is not always about race. Sometimes it is about something else, that just looks like race ... but it ain't. (READ ON)
October 28, 2008
...ummm... how do I say this delicately?? I read the New York Times for intelligent, thoughtful and relatively objective news and news analysis. Unfortunately, after watching these two bloggers on video embedded within yesterday's NYT Online, I felt a wave of, well, confusion.
Why, you ask? Because, a discussion, by two adult women, two educated, sophisticated and opinionated women, with a global online platform, regarding the "girliness" or "femininty" of Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin is, at best, ridiculous. (READ ON)
Weekend Edition
October 25-26, 2008
I am sure you heard that Sarah Palin received at least $150,000 of the money raised for the McCain campaign by Republican donors for a clothing allowance. The somewhat annoying part is that she spent a good deal of that money on clothing from Neiman's. (READ ON)
Weekend Posts
October 3-5, 2008
As a new mother to a special needs child and a mother to four other children, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is becoming a symbol of the "Superwoman." However, there are certainly arguments as to whether she is truly a positive representation of a working mother or whether the Republican Vice Presidential candidate is a healthy, or even a truly realistic female image at all. (READ ON)
August 31, 2008
What should we expect of the National Guard and FEMA? Were all of the dollars allotted to disaster relief well spent on solid infrastructure and levies? Will they hold? (READ ON)
August 25, 2008
Is Barack Obama a purse snatcher?
During a discussion with a few Clinton supporters who are vowing to make a fuss at the Democratic National Convention in Denver this week..... (READ ON)
August 14, 2008
How do you know these women are standing by their man?
If I hear one more female media commentator say that she can't believe that John Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, is still standing by her man.... (READ ON)
August 12, 2008
Whose Missing Child is More Important?
Is there an unspoken human hierarchy of missing children in this country? (READ ON)
