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Women as Tropes

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The NY Times is a repeat competitor in the let's shove women into boxes olympics. This week's entry: the Magazine's article about people who remain abstinent into their teens...people at Harvard (gasp!). Melinda Henneberger* gets to the heart of my complaints on XX factor. In...

And again…

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Prisons are a feminist issue. Last week, the Supreme Court let stand a ruling from the Arizona Supreme Court that requires prisons to provide transportation for incarcerated women seeking abortions..

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Worst American Birthdays, vol. 43

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Michael Alan Weiner -- otherwise known as Michael Savage -- was born 66 years ago today. If Savage had been alive during the early 20th century, he would almost certainly have been among those calling for the lynching of Jack Johnson, the African American boxer...
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I was lucky enough to see Ornette Coleman at Town Hall last Friday, and as expected it was exceptional. It was remarkable at the begining to compare his frail, barely.

Hack Memorial of the Day

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You really have to hand it to people like Jules Crittenden, who refuse to allow Dith Pran's near-total total silence on Iraq to deter their efforts to use Pran's death.

Victor, Spoils, Etc.

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Jowei Chen, via Monkey Cage:In the aftermath of the summer 2004 Florida hurricane season, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) distributed $1.2 billion in disaster aid to Florida residents. This research presents two empirical findings that collectively suggest the Bush administration engaged in vote buying...
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