Unburying The Lead: ... 1) Who is this “American people” that they’re referring to? 2) How...
…1) Who is this “American people” that they’re referring to?
2) How do people like Snowe and McConnell, or anyone else in our federal government, know what’s best for those that they almost never see and only pretend to listen to when they do see them, when an election is around the corner?
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White People Clothes and "Old Money Green" | The Awl
Over at J.Crew, a new arrival is the “plantation madras” button-down, a breezy, colorful shirt just in time for the annual thaw, not to mention a thing whose name I can’t help but associate with slavery. Of course, perhaps I’m being hypersensitive. Because not all plantations got fat off slave-labor and it’s a bit silly to necessarily associate the two. Then again, would anyone ever sell a “plantation bullwhip”? J. Peterman might. The company Seinfeld so often mocked seems more eager to revel in blue-blooded patriarchy than a Buckley sipping highballs on a yacht on Long Island Sound. Here’s the company’s description of a pair of its tweed slacks: “Did you know that Verdi wrote ‘Falstaff’ when he was 80? … Verdi, Walt Whitman, the Mellons. Hard workers from solid European stock. Just like these pants.” Well then! At that point, I say to hell with the subtlety; call them the Sorry, Darkie Breeches: “From solid European stock and for solid European stockholders.”
Thankfully, even more direct is J. Peterman’s “owner’s hat,” introduced thusly: “Some of us work on the plantation. Some of us own the plantation.”
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Beer Monopoly: Pass Go, Drink Beer!
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This is the thing I want more than any other thing.
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When Battered Women are Arrested – A Growing Problem
In recent years, Battered Women’s Support Services has become increasingly alarmed by the growing number of women accessing our services who have been arrested for allegedly perpetrating domestic violence against their partners. In our experience these arrests are occurring despite the fact that in all cases women were in relationships where they were being abused.
We have written two resources in response to this growing problem available on March 15, 2010.
WHEN BATTERED WOMEN ARE ARRESTED – A resource for front-line workers
IF YOU HAVE BEEN ABUSED AND ARRESTED – A resource for women who have been abused by their partner and arrested by the police (available in English, Farsi, Punjabi and Spanish)
Engaging Immigrant Women in the Legal System Project funded by the Law Foundation
For more information email iwepc1@bwss.org or call 604-687-1868.
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This happened to my sister. It is yet another avenue for abusers to isolate and punish their victims. And to make sure that they are not believed in the wider community - their innocence tarnished.
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Robot Heart: Sex, Religion, and Politics: Why Gay Marriage Should Not Be Legalized
…Wow! Where to start?
Gays have been getting married for many years. It was 13 years ago I went to a wedding with my parents for one of their gay friends. The Unitarian Church married them, and they got a lawyer to situate all their assets and belongings, and willed their…
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Alston, in re MacFarlane v. Palin (via newsweek)
This. It’s not a funny joke - the joke depends on the idea that all of Sarah Palin’s kids have Down’s Syndrome, which just isn’t funny.
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