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  • Where's Hillary?

    The McCain-Palin brouhaha over the 'pig in lipstick' analogy is so much BS. But rather than the Obama campaign responding, it should be Hillary. Because McCain made the same crack about her health care plan, she is in the ideal position to call him out on their supposed outrage. And let's not forget the town meeting where one of McCain's ...
    Posted to Politics by miragelady on September 11, 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

  • It's a bit more nuanced

    I do not believe that Hillary lost because of sexism, and I'm a Obama supporter anyway. But was their sexism against Hillary? Without a doubt. Hitchens, like usual, makes some good points. Unlike the racial divide, there are some fundamental biological differences between male and female. Some of these make one gender better at some things than ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Sara Katz on June 18, 2008

  • Hitchens and Women

    It's ironic that Hitchens, who penned ''Women Aren't Funny'' appointed himself a pundit on the topic of when misogyny doesn't exist. Hello! Hitchens? The fact that mosquitoes don't bite you does not prove they're mythical! You're hardly in a position to discuss the topic of sexism (or lack of same) with any authority at all. That said, although ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Tea_Seas on June 16, 2008