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  • Dahlia Lithwick Uses Recipes to Write a Legal Column About..

    ... ABORTION. Lithwick's very idea that women do not have reproductive choice, if they cannot extinquish the life growing in their own wombs, is in and of itself faulty. I mean, my God, did the female have sex with the guy, or did she not? As to being ''for change'' in everything but pro-Abort American policies at home and abroad, not everyone ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard2 on August 21, 2008

  • Hitch On Helms like White on Rice

    Gee Hitchens, why don't you and the Queen of England tell us how you really felt about that North Carolinian champion Senator Jesse Helms? I did not know him very well, living in the Midwest among Chicago Democrats and Suburban ''Collar County'' Repubs early in life, and then moving to New England, where both the Democrats and the Republicans have ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on July 7, 2008

  • Said it, Meant it: bridges among feminists?

    In response to Marjorie Valbrun’s thoughtful piece about the eroding relations between black women Obama supporters and white women Clinton supporters, I can’t help wondering whether these difficult conversations about how sexism and racism undermine equal opportunities aren’t a necessary first step in a modern conversation about race relations. ...
    Posted to XX Factor by L Newfarmer on May 28, 2008

  • When your only tool is a hammer, Pt. II

    ''I know that many black Americans are discouraged and worry that New Hampshire's results mean that America is not ready for a black president.'' This comment by Prof. Harris-Lacewell dovetails quite nicely with Ms. Steinem's comments that sexism is more ingrained than racism. They just have different axes to grind, but their comments are ...
    Posted to Politics by chuck on January 9, 2008