Was Adam Lanza Anorexic?
[I originally wrote and published the material below this paragraph on DailyKos a year ago 2014-11-26]. The new report by the Office of the Child Advocate of CT (Shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary...
View ArticleProtest "Date Grape Kool-Aid" on Bar's Menu
I'll keep this short. A bar in Spokane is selling a drink called "Date Grape Kool-Aid." Feminists in Spokane have protested, both online and in person, and the bar has not yet changed the name. Please...
View ArticleWim Wenders: Opinions Are Violent?
In an interview about their intriguing sounding new book, Inventing Peace, the acclaimed German film-maker Wim Wenders (of "Wings of Desire" fame) and the Australian philosopher Mary Zournazi, opined...
View ArticleBergdahl, Selective Objection, & the Right to Quit
The Bergdahl case raises a number of questions about the rights of military personnel. What can members of the military do when they face a crisis of conscience? How should laws and regulations be...
View ArticleBob Fosse: Feminist Analysis Wanted Here
Fosse, a biography by Sam Wasson, is a very good show-business and personal biography of Fosse (the brilliant dancer, choreographer, director of stage and screen, and film editor) but the focus is too...
View ArticleVerizon Ad: Ignoring Burning Woman 4 Football is Funny?
My ten-year old is a football fan, and so watched some of the first football game of the season tonight on TV. We repeatedly saw an ad telling men and boys to ignore a woman in horrific pain and pay...
View ArticleWhat to Get Putin for His Birthday
Putin's birthdays have routinely been used by his supporters as opportunities for propaganda trumpeting his swaggeringly aggressive masculinity.Valerie Sperling, the author of a new book: Sex,...
View ArticleInterview: Bill Maher Goes Full Frontal Misogynist
I'll keep this brief.In response to Sony pulling "The Interview," Bill Maher tweeted:#TheInterview Is that all it takes - an anonymous threat and the numbers 911 - to throw free expression under the...
View ArticleMove To Amend - Nightmare Attack on Free Speech?
I just received an email from an activist I admire greatly, urging me to support Move To Amend, an amendment that would attempt to reverse the damaging impact of the Citizen's United Supreme Court...
View ArticleScalia's Originalism Opposed by Madison/Jefferson
Scalia's cramped view of the US Constitution, which he describes as being rooted in the original intent of the Constitution's authors, was explicitly opposed by the primary architect of the US...
View ArticleRacist Comment vs. Arab Child in NYT Film Review
The movie “Theeb” centers around a Jordanian child fleeing the impact of war in 1916. I was reading Stephen Holden’s admiring review of the film in the New York Times (2015-11-05) but was brought up...
View ArticlePulse Massacre Horrible. Not Largest Mass Shooting in US History.
Many of us are filled with horror, shock, and outrage at the homophobic mass shooting in Orlanda targeting LGBT partiers and allies at the Pulse nightclub. At the same time, many U.S. media outlets,...
View ArticleSongs That Ask Beautiful Questions?
Today I was reading about Warren Berger’s book, A More Beautiful Question, and came across his thought (and question) provoking blog post, “50+ Question Songs.” He compiled a great list of songs which...
View ArticleIs Trump The President We Want for our Sons?
Hillary Clinton’s instant-classic “Mirrors” ad:youtu.be/...features girls looking into the mirror while listening to a few of Trump’s misogynist insults. The memorable tag line: “Is this the president...
View ArticleWhen we're threatened by despair...
… Hope BeckonsI usually don’t write cut and paste diaries lauding another writer’s work. But in this case, I’m writing because it’s easy to fall into despair when faced with the multitude of crimes...
View ArticleSign Women's March PledgeOfLiberation
The Women’s March has issued an inclusive Pledge of Liberation and is seeking signatures. I just signed. This is just a quick diary to make the DailyKos community aware of it, because I didn’t see...
View ArticleQuick Reactions to Ken Burns'"Vietnam" ep 1
I just watched Burns’ and Novick’s first episode, and, predictably perhaps for a mainstream take on the US war against Vietnam, it was jarring, upsetting, infuriating, impressive, appalling, and...
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Solidarity Across Racial and Gender Lines - 1867-style
Brent Staples, in his “Editorial Observer” column for the NYT, “The Racism Behind Women’s Suffrage” makes vital points about the racism of sectors of the women’s movement for suffrage. Staples rightly...
View ArticleHelp Change AL Law that Gives Child Visitation Rights to Men Who Rape
Donate to Help Change the AL LawSemDem wrote a diary describing the horrifying case of a woman in Alabama whose uncle raped her multiple times. The man who raped her has succeeded in ordering the court...
View ArticleNYT: US Diplomat Confirmed Trump Blocked Ukraine $ To Obtain Political Dirt...
The NYTreported tonight that Bill Taylor, the top US Diplomat in Ukraine, texted Sondland, the US ambassador to Europe, and the US special envoy to Ukraine Volker, saying:“I think it’s crazy to...
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