Our famous linkfest offering you links to sites with MANY different viewpoints. Links do not necessarily reflect the opinion of TMV or its cobloggers.
Women In Combat? A Good Idea Or A Rotten One? Apparently some object to it and some of the arguments being used are labeled “sexist.” Read this.
There Are Fears Among Some That The Democrats Will Give Up Championing Abortion Rights. Go HERE.
BREAKING NEWS! Polar Bears Added To Iraq Options
Can Rudy Giuliani Win Red State America? And How Can He? Some thoughts here.
It Isn’t Fowl To Report That KFC Is A Huge Hit in Japan.
“Nanny Hunting While Black” is a problem, La Shawn Barber notes. A small part:
It seems that black people looking for nannies are having a hard time finding nannies who want to work for black people, including black nannies. Parents interviewed for the story tell the sad tale of once again being judged by their skin color. One nanny agency owner reports that blacks make up 40 percent of her employees, and “many� don’t want to work with blacks because they might be “uppity and demanding,� paying less and expecting more. Some nannies, black and white, just don’t want to trek to “black� neighborhoods for safety reasons.
Nobody knows de trouble I’ve seen…Tell it to someone who cares. Sorry, but I just can’t feel sorry for or sympathize with black parents looking for someone else to raise their children and face “discrimination� in the process. I take an old-fashioned, hard-line view on this issue. Parents should raise their own children. Period.
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The Top 10 Most Peculiar Stories Of 2006 are here. (Someone ought to do a story about that guy who keeps sending me emails saying I need an “enlargement.” How does HE know?)
Is Political Flip-Flopping A Vice Or A Virtue particularly when viewed against the context of signs that President George W. Bush may not be “listening” to ideas all that new after all but paying “ear service” and doing what he wants to do. Here’s one view.
Did The Muslim Vote Help Democrats Win The Senate Seat In Virginia? And no (let’s cut this one off in advance) we are not posting this to whip up an issue of some big peril. But it seems as a group of Muslims may have had some significant impact.
Ding, Dong, The Witch Is Dead. No, that isn’t a headline written by Donald Trump about Rosie O’Donnell. Its a MUST-READ by Cathy Young about the professional death of Regan Books publisher Judith Regan…and it’s more than your usual blog rant:
I will here freely disclose that my distaste for Regan is, at least in part, personal, since I’ve had a chance to be on the receiving end of her (in)famous temperament. In May 1999, while promoting my book Ceasefire!: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality, I was invited to appear on Regan’s now-defunct weekend show on Fox News on a panel on feminism and men (alongside Barbara Ehrenreich, John Podhoretz, and my former professor Lionel Tiger). As it happens, my book contained a bit of a swipe at Regan — funnily enough, somewhat related to the O.J. Simpson case.
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Be Careful If You Blog In Egypt: You could go to jail.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.