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The XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
Wednesday, April 02, 2008 - Posts
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Speaking of overshadowed men, and going back Hanna’s interest in pols who don’t cheat, I’d been wondering today whether Obama was perhaps squirming a little, and his staffers might be casting about for a way to cultivate at least a bit of a bad boy image. Read More...
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When Brad and Jen broke up, I started finding US Weekly around the house. Finally, mystery solved: My husband, as is turns out, just cannot read enough about Angelina's humanitarian efforts on behalf of children around the world! ( Here , included in Read More...
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Hillary Clinton has another "It's 3:00 a.m and your children are safe and asleep, but there's a phone ringing in the White House" ad . This time, it's not about national security, but housing foreclosures, and Clinton is awake and fresh-looking, taking Read More...
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I hear you, Hanna , and I've sometimes thought about the downside of success for Hollywood women when their marriages fall apart. Cases in point: Hilary Swank wins an Oscar. She and her husband break up. Reese Witherspoon wins an Oscar. She and her husband Read More...
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So here's a question to the men out there: Do we think this story will get less play because of an undercurrent of pity for Thomas Athans; i.e., Men who are married to more powerful women are justified in their straying, to satisfy their sense of manhood? Read More...
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No, not the politicians' spouses who can't keep away from prostitutes .... Before it gets forgotten in a flood of Big Beaver jokes, I wanted to pick up on what Juliet wrote: I saw that BBC poll about world-perceptions-of-America too, and reckoned it was Read More...
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The good news is, Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow did not hold a news conference to say she was sticking by her hubby of five years after he confessed to police that he'd been with a prostitute. On the contrary, after the news came out, Stabenow didn't Read More...
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From Cullen Seltzer, a lawyer in Richmond, Va., who has written for Slate , on the tenacious hold of the billable hour: Here's the rub and why the billable hour will always be a relevant factor in legal work: The only thing lawyers have to sell is their Read More...
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I thought this factoid from the article was striking, too, and sad. Of the 20-year-old prostitute: "She told police she had only been working as a prostitute for about a week and didn’t know how many men had visited her the day she was arrested , according Read More...
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Last week I proposed gelding politicians. This week, I propose gelding their spouses. U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow's husband, Thomas Athans, was just caught in a prostitution sting. Some choice quotes from the Detroit Free Press : "Athans was pulled over Read More...
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When I saw the headline " America's Global Image Stops Sinking in a Poll " on the New York Times Lede blog, I clicked on it eagerly, expecting (because I'm gullible) some moderate to good news. Sadly, the poll—a worldwide survey conducted by the BBC and Read More...
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Last weekend, I finally got the chance to finish watching Frontline' s excellent two-part, four-hour series, " Bush's War ," which recounts in excruciating detail the events leading up to the Iraq war and the events of the war itself. I'm sure some will Read More...
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