Author Archives: Samhita
White births have been outnumbered by non-white – now what?
(Spotted by my friend Karlos Gauna Schmeider from the Center for Media Justice–two headlines, backwards ideology and the new moment on race in the US) That inevitable moment that conservative Americans have been dreading is finally here. According to census data births of white babies has been surpassed by brown babies. The AP reports that [...]
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That Awful Moment when the House implicitly endorses violence against women
House Republicans have stooped low in their all-out war on women by turning an issue that has never been bipartisan–that violence against women is a bad thing–into a partisan one voting 222-206 in support of a ridiculous, callous and watered down version of the Violence Against Women Act. As Vanessa noted Tuesday, it was slated [...]
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What we missed
The great children’s book author Maurice Sendak has passed away at 83. Here is a great clip of him doing an interview with Stephen Colbert (must watch). And a video of Obama reading Where the Wild Things Are to a group of children at the White House. His stuff mattered. A great piece from Jessica on [...]
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“In the good old days, men knew that women are crazy and they knew how to deal with them.”
File under: we can’t make this shit up. Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson believes that the worst thing to happen in modern society is that women were given the right to vote. Additional important information provided by this genius: Women are sluts (Limbaugh was right) and women are now out of control with power, so much power–vaginal [...]
What we missed