WOMEN DON’T like gonzo erotica. Alert the media. I’m serious, because when it comes to women and sexuality the American media is C.L.U.E.L.E.S.S. Thank the gods for E.L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey, because now at least erotica that turns women on is being talked about in a way that is relatable by a larger [...]
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Thoughts on Ross Douthat’s “Bad Religion,” by Franklymydears
TM NOTE: This is a guest post from a retired Episcopalian minister, whom I know through his ministry and because he took my husband and me through our marriage classes, then performed our ceremony. It was through Franklymydears that I heard speak and was introduced to the amazing Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori. On [...]
Author of 1988 Political Treasure, Richard Ben Cramer, Passes
“What It Takes: The Way to the White House,” the full title, isn’t one of those pleasurable books you read once, enjoy and put down, out of sight and out of mind, when you finish. It’s just as worthwhile to dip back in and read a few pages as it is to plow through the [...]
Your Continued Support Matters
IT’S THE holidays and I know there are a million things on your list. I hope you consider adding a donation to this site one of them. Any amount is appreciated! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for making this new media site a place you stop by and read. I so appreciate [...]
Hillary Clinton and 2016, the Waiting Begins [Video]
“Nobody interacts with Hillary Clinton like she’s fading off into the sunset.” – Philippe Reines, Clinton’s State Department spokesman DO YOU care what’s being said about Secretary Clinton and 2016? I wonder how many people want to read analysis and the obligatory compulsory coverage about the never ending speculation of what can’t possibly known today. [...]
John Kerry is a Better Choice for State Than Susan Rice
The problem with making Susan Rice secretary of state isn’t Benghazi. It’s war. Rice, like her “mentor,” former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, and the current secretary, Hillary Clinton, has supported just about every proposed U.S. military intervention over the two decades. The president should nominate someone that occasionally opposes a war. [...] Rice is [...]
Top Story — Obama’s 2011 Grand Bargain Detailed in Documents Obtained by Bob Woodward
“He is, in his gut, a fiscal conservative. There is a Blue Dog Streak in him.” – David Plouffe in The Price of Politics, by Bob Woodward IF YOU haven’t read Bob Woodward’s latest book, The Price of Politics, you may not appreciate the documents below fully. We’re about to see Obama’s “excessive pragmatism,” as [...]
50 Years Ago, John F. Kennedy Talks to Eisenhower on Cuban Missile Crisis [Audio]
THIS COINCIDES with a new book on JFK. From the JFK Library: As President, John F. Kennedy was the ultimate arbiter of American foreign and millitary policy. But there were still a number of former presidents he could consult with, including President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In this phone conversation, Kennedy asks Eisenhower what he believes [...]
News Desk: Google Shares Plummet on Early Notice of 20% Earnings Fall
FINGERS POINT to R.R. Donnelley, Google’s financial printer, after numbers were prematurely released. Trading on Google ceased on Nasdaq, but will resume when the issue is reconciled. From the Wall Street Journal: Google Inc. GOOG -9.82% prematurely released its quarterly earnings midday Thursday, reporting that profit declined 20% as total costs jumped and advertising prices [...]
Romney Surrogate Mark “Appalachian Trail” Sanford: Obama “Will Throw A Lot of Spears”
IT’S A strong statement coming from a southerner, the video compliments of Mediaite. That Fox News anchor Shannon Bream ignored the statement is typical. Spears. Obama. Nothing to see here, move along. I wrote about Mark Sanford in a section in my book, The Hillary Effect [the excerpt], where I talk about “It’s All the [...]
Freak Out Over Lena Dunham’s $3.7 Million Book Deal is Ageism
THE CATERWAULING is epic. It’s also highly revealing. Kudos to Dunham, who wouldn’t be coming under this scrutiny if she weren’t 20-something. This is ageism, splashed with Who Does This GIRL Think She Is? Even if they do break even or if somehow every single person who watched the premiere of Dunham’s show “Girls” buys [...]
“Scarpetta” Author Patricia Cornwell’s Real Life Justice Department Nightmare
THIS IS a remarkable post from Patricia Cornwell, an author whose books adorn the small fiction section in humble home library. Cornwell is a brilliant crime writer whom I’ve read for years when I get two seconds to break away from the reams of research and books I have to read for my work as [...]
Mitt Romney Should Challenge Obama on the Payroll Tax Cut that Tim Geithner Wants on Chopping Block
Independent analysts say that the expiration of the tax cut could shave as much as a percentage point off economic output in 2013, and cost the economy as many as one million jobs. That is because the typical American family had $1,000 in additional income from the lower tax. [New York Times] YOU HAVE TO [...]
News Desk: “Half the Sky” on PBS
Watch Women Are Not the Problem, They Are the Solution on PBS. See more from Independent Lens. The linked problems of sex trafficking and forced prostitution, gender-based violence, and maternal mortality — which needlessly claim one woman every 90 seconds — present to us the single most vital opportunity of our time: the opportunity to [...]
First Peek at “Lincoln”
Here’s your first look at footage from Steven Spielberg‘s Lincoln, which comes in the form of a trailer for the trailer. The real trailer will hit on September 13, after the previously announced Google+ Hangout with Spielberg and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. But for now you can get your first taste of footage from the film below. [...]
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