Archive | June, 2006
Gore is SO running …
I know I said I was heading out for vacation (which we are, bright and early in the morning), but we just saw Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth tonight, and I just had to write something. As we were …
Continue reading...Does Fox have a sense of humor??
June 23, 2006
According to MediaBistro, the Fox Network is working on a new show meant to mimic Jon Stewart’s, but starring Laura Ingraham! OK — on the scale of conservative commentators, she’s no Ann Coulter (Thank God!). But Ingraham has …
Continue reading...Closer than you think
June 23, 2006
A few months ago, columnist Kathleen Parker suggested that the Western world and the Muslim world are “centuries apart,” and that if we were not careful, “certain elements of the Muslim world would like to drag us back into the …
Continue reading...Checklist for Change
June 21, 2006
Tonight on Larry King, the nine Democratic Senators talked about their new “Checklist for Change.” Check out my comments on their efforts at my other blog, Column Quest.…
Continue reading...When do we just call them children?
June 21, 2006
In a posting today about Nicole Kidman‘s upcoming wedding, the story mentioned that Kidman’s two “adopted children” would be attending the nuptials. As an adoptive mother, this drives me crazy. I never refer to my daughter as …
Continue reading...Clutter police?
June 18, 2006
I fight clutter every day. It’s not that my house is dirty or that I can’t find a place to sit, but with the never-ending, daily influx of paper, both from the mail, inserts in my daughter’s school backpack, and …
Continue reading...Adding fuel to the Mommy fire
June 18, 2006
Linda Hirshman takes on her own critics in the Washington Post today. There has been much buzz about her column in the American Prospect (some months ago) about “elite women” and the choice to work or stay-at-home — …
Continue reading...Oh, were you using those Fourth Amendment rights?
June 16, 2006
The erosion of our constitutional rights that many predicted would happen with the departure of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor from the Supreme Court has begun. Yesterday, SCOTUS (the Supreme Court of the United States)essentially ruled that it’s OK …
Continue reading...The Dems need a book club!
June 15, 2006
We all know how some right-wingers love indoctrination to solidify “the base.” They’ve got colleges for it (Liberty, Bob Jones), they’ve got secret handshakes, but the latest tool I’ve found made me laugh — the Conservative Book Club! …
Continue reading...I thought we were supposed to form our own opinions
June 14, 2006
MSNBC has decided it needs to be more “edgy” and opinionated in its news reporting. Apparently, new MSNBC general manager Dan Abrams, their current legal reporter, has determined that because FOX and CNN have higher ratings, and they opine …
Continue reading...Just remember …
June 13, 2006
… just because a prosecutor can’t gather enough evidence to prove a case, doesn’t mean the potential defendant didn’t commit the crime. It’s been a few years (!) since I graduated from law school, but let’s not forget that there …
Continue reading...When do they get to be kids?
June 13, 2006
There’s not much time left to chill in our country, at least when it comes to parents’ pressure on kids to achieve. It turns out that some meds taken by kids for ADD are also being called “smart pills…
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June 24, 2006
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