Is having a miscarriage a crime?
As if miscarriage isn’t painful enough, Salon’s Mary Elizabeth Williams reports that it could become a punishable offense in Utah:
“Utah still grants that there’s “no cause of action for criminal homicide for the death of an unborn child caused by an abortion” (yes, in Utah, abortion = “death of an unborn child”) but would now [...]
Let’s say no to violence against women
An article in Salon about girls suffering genital mutilation set my hair on fire. (Genital mutilation is a euphemism for several grisly procedures, often performed with unsterile instruments and without anesthesia.) Turns out, female genital mutilation — or FGM –doesn’t just happen in other countries. It’s happening here. In the United States.
The Salon piece, written [...]
After taxpayers bail them out, banks go back to paying record bonuses
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Will Obama make you stand before a death panel?
A lot of people seem to think he will.
But in this interview, Jon Stewart combs through the proposed health care bill with Betsy McCaughey to find out for sure. (Incidentally, Jon Stewart should be given some kind of award for his work here; unlike others in the media, he offers information, not sound bites.)
Here’s Part [...]
The best novel I’ve read all year
Have you ever read a book and said to yourself, “I could have done better than that?” I have, more than once. But after I finished Curtis Sittenfeld’s American Wife, I came away feeling I probably shouldn’t be allowed to handle pens.
I belong to a book club, which requires me to read a good deal [...]
Revolution, Death and Divorce: A theme of women’s triumph
Wow. What a week it turned out to be.
Last week started out as a run-of-the-mill busy week of professional obligations for me, but turned into a bizarre series of news “events,” stories of death, divorce and revolution. At first, I felt merely like a witness to a string of unrelated events, but then I noticed a [...]
If women ran the world, would there be fewer sex scandals?
It’s a theory former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino floated last week, that men are prone to cheating and women aren’t, so we should elect more women to office.
I disagree with Dana.
While I can think of many reasons why more women should be elected to office, a reluctance to
cheat isn’t one of them. I’ve [...]
Tell the U.S. government to prosecute U.S. sex tour operators
It takes a special kind of loser to take a vacation that includes sex with a stranger, but apparently, enough of these creeps exist to create a market for what is known as “sex tourism.”
Even worse, some of these pervs don’t limit their activities to adult women; Equality Now says that children can be included [...]
“Obama’s Supreme Court Pick Is a Woman, a Latina, and…Single!” by Dr. Bella DePaulo
A Bronx resident, and a woman, I fell off the couch when President Obama annuonced Sonia Sotomayor as his pick for the Supreme Court. Our friend, Dr. Bella DePaulo ironically interviewed someone who personally knows the hopeful Justice-To-Be.
Here is an excerpt of the post by Dr. Bella DePaulo was featured on her blog, Living Single on Psychology [...]
In support of ‘the black dyke’
I know I’m late to the party on this one, but I’m compelled to support Wanda Sykes, the comedian who came under fire by people with zero sense of humor for her performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
Full disclosure: I think Wanda is one of the funniest humans in the world. I try never [...]
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Sex and the single girl
Over the past couple of weeks, several women have asked me similar questions:
-What can I do to keep a guy interested after I have sex with him?
-Why do some guys assume I’m going to have sex on the second or third date?
-If I don’t have sex with him, I’m probably not going to keep him [...]
About that Michelle and Carla catfight…
Well, it didn’t happen, did it?
But if we believed the tripe in the mainstream media last week, First Ladies Michelle Obama and Carla Bruni were fated to clash in a “fashion face-off” (as if neither one of them had anything else to occupy her tiny mind than pretty clothes). And, then when it turned out [...]
Meghan McCain asks, “I’m too fat to write?”
In case you haven’t already heard, former presidential candidate John McCain’s daughter, Meghan, a writer for The Daily Beast, suggested that an extremist like Ann Coulter isn’t doing the Republican party any favors.
Conservative pundit Laura Ingraham rose to Coulter’s defense by doing an ugly Valley Girl imitation of McCain (which made Ingraham sound more of [...]
