The media love to mock women in the political world by using sexist terms that demean us and make us out to be something not worthy of serious consideration. We saw that time and time again…
Continue reading...August 4, 2010
I’m getting ready for the annual BlogHer conference, this year in New York City. If you’re attending, I hope you’ll join me for my panel on Saturday morning, Radical Mom Blogging: You’d Be Crazy Not to Take These Women…
Continue reading...August 2, 2010
Two months ago, after Helen Thomas was unceremoniously kicked out of the White House press corps for her off-the-job statements about Palestine, the talk started about who was going to get her front row real estate for the daily press…
Continue reading...July 31, 2010
I’m guessing that there aren’t too many members of Congress who’ve ever had to worry about whether their kids were getting healthy, nutritious food. Is that why many don’t care about the issue — because they’ve had no personal experience…
Continue reading...July 29, 2010
Take a look at this face. Are you willing to turn away from it? This week’s TIME Magazine cover is powerful and disturbing, forcing us to face an image of an 18-year-old Afghan wife who’s had her ears…
Continue reading...July 26, 2010
Journalism icon Daniel Schorr died last week. He was part of my family, though we weren’t related by blood — he was the husband of my husband’s first cousin, once removed. I admit, not the closest of relations and somewhat…
Continue reading...July 22, 2010
If you’re headed to Netroots Nation — the annual progressive political/blogger conference, this week, I hope you’ll come by the panel I’m on with a group of amazing women. Our topic? Why Women are the Key to Future Progressive…
Continue reading...July 19, 2010
Last summer on our family vacation to Yellowstone National Park, we actually got to see a grizzly bear. Fortunately for safety’s sake, it was from a very far distance while we were on a rafting trip, but I was surprised…
Continue reading...July 10, 2010
For some reason, Sarah Palin and her acolytes, or as she likes to call them, the “mama grizzlies,” want us to believe that politically conservative mothers speak for all mothers and that they have a corner on common sense or…
Continue reading...July 6, 2010
I hate winter and I love summer. When PunditGirl asks me if I’d rather be too hot or too cold, the answer for me is always, “Too Hot!” Until this summer. I don’t know what’s going on with the…
Continue reading...June 23, 2010
I don’t think I’ve ever specifically said that ‘Walmart moms’ are the key to the 2010 election. But there have been plenty of studies showing that women in general, and mothers in particular, hold a lot of sway not just…
Continue reading...June 17, 2010
Children get used as pawns in all sorts of things they shouldn’t, like divorce and family arguments. Now, we can add another one to the list — immigration reform. Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce apparently has the ability to get…
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August 13, 2010
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