The UN in Haiti
The reports of the “Cholera Riots” in Haiti are ubiquitous now. A lot of them touch on the many issues that lead to this, but most of them seem to want to say that it’s street gangs, or it’s because...
View ArticleTracy McMillan tells women why they aren’t married
I have not the faintest clue actually who Tracy McMillan is, but I ended up following a link-trail that ended up at her recent article at HuffPo. While reading that epic pile of excrement, I had an...
View ArticleHomework-blogging, episode one
since my brainpower is completely taken up with working on these class-papers, I figure I should repurpose at least a few of them for blogging; at least the ones from my Social Inequality class, since...
View ArticleLink dump
there’s a few issues on my mind that don’t need a lot to have said about them (or, you know, render one completely speechless), so I’ll just collect them all here: 1)douchebag: now an insult also...
View ArticleOf wedding rings and red herrings
The NYT has published an article bemoaning inequality; which would be great if it didn’t basically amount to: “if those silly women would just marry, most of their problems would go away”. Mind you, I...
View ArticleThink Progress gets something wrong
couple weeks ago, The article Idaho Lawmaker Compares Abortion To Prostitution* appeared on Think Progress. It’s in the style of their many other “Republicans say outrageously horrible things”...
View ArticleThe WSJ has opinions on non-rich folks again
Donald J. Boudreaux and Mark J. Perry at the Wall Street Journal would like you to know that the shrinking middle class is a mean and “spectacularly wrong” progressive trope; or rather, a “progressive”...
View ArticleThe missing piece to the stories of the Magdalene Laundries
The Report on the Magdalene Laundries is finally out, and people all over the internet are writing about it, and about the abuses that went on there. The women and girls who were sent to Magdalene...
View ArticleNorth Dakota’s War on Uteri*
First, here’s the series Rachel Maddow did on the abortion clinics in states with only one such clinic: Threats and traps push Mississippi to the brink of 40-year rights rollback Last bastions of an...
View ArticleTexas jury: Escorts who follow the law are thieves, and shooting AK 47′s in...
Lenora Ivie Frago was shot on Christmas Eve 2009 in a dispute over $150; the shooting paralyzed her, and caused her death several months later. Her killer was accused of murder, but was just acquitted;...
View Article“women” didn’t
When Obama won re-election, the media story went that “women voters” rejected Romney because of his stance on reproductive rights*. This framing is not a false claim in itself; women as a group really...
View ArticleReactions to Nelson Mandela’s death
Nelson Mandela died yesterday. This prompted reactions pretty much everywhere, because if nothing else, the whole media-accessible world agrees that he’s a memorable and comment-worthy man. The most...
View ArticleSuggested reading — insightful sites that are currently on my reading list
Blogrolls are supposed to be a sort of promotion of other stuff one reads and stuff that’s interesting, but I feel like my reading is never that stable and I’d have to update the blogroll once a month...
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