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I just got a note from GLAD saying that Maine's Governor Balducci has signed into law a bill that gender-neutralizes marriage, initiated and passed by Maine's legislature without any court case or judicial involvement whatsoever. That makes Maine the first equal-marriage state to do so entirely on its elected officials' own initiative.
I'm a ...
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Willa, I tried clicking through that Costume Institute Gala slide show, and got ...
bored. You'll be shocked, shocked to learn that I am no one's idea of
fashionable. There are many reasons I live up here in the land of the
bluestockings. Among them: Here, I can get away with dressing in a combination
of Goodwill, Gap, and Ann Taylor (that ...
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Bonnie, FAB idea about Justice Mikulski! I hope you have POTUS's ear on this. Or at least FLOTUS?
In unrelated news, this week the Senates of both New Hampshire and Maine passed bills to gender-neutralize their states' marriage laws. NH's Senate bill now has to be reconciled with its House bill (also passed); no one's sure whether the governor ...
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Emily, you aren't convinced that the next USSC justice has to be a woman? I'm startled. If there were eight women and only one man in the Article III branch of government, you can be sure there would be outrage among the minority sex. (Men are a slight minority in the world, since females make up 51 percent of the planet, more or less, except ...
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Well, gals, if we're talking about old senators, we MUST mention the oldest of them all: Strom Thurmond, who more or less died in office, age 100. I remember watching TV, mouth open, as his aides moved him across the Senate floor. Honestly, the dude looked embalmed. It was awe-inspiring to watch him not break. (I would've been terrified to be one ...
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I'd love to respond on everyone's Regnerus essay comments, and to
Bonnie on spinsterhood, a word derived from the spindle—spinning having been assigned to an unmarried woman, back in the traditional days when the average age of marriage
for women ran between 27 and 29. Getting promoted from being a spindle-wielder to being the shop's ...
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Jess, I was honestly shocked yesterday morning when I opened my paper copy of the New York Times and saw Bea Arthur referred to—in print!!—as a ''Battle-Ax.'' Who the heck was on the copy desk, and how is it possible he hasn't yet retired? I hadn't even heard that term for decades; didn't it go out with ''spinster?'' Here's a better view of Bea to ...
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True, Sam, my post, below, about the Mirror Awards is a tiny bit misleading. There are women on the list—four women, who won five of the 29 awards:
Rachel Sklar, twice, Julia Klein, Evgenia Peretz, Megan Garber. Go girls!
So women aren't ''missing'' from the list, exactly. Except in the sense that China has more boys than girls—missing in the ...
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I just got this announcement via email:
''Syracuse
University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public
Communications today announced 29
finalists in six categories in the third annual Mirror
Awards competition
honoring excellence in media industry reporting.''
The winners include such media watchdogs as Eric Alterman, Ken Auletta, ...
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Kerry, you're exactly right. The ''ticking bomb'' torture scenario is a fairy tale. That justification for torture assumes that my government—or any government—can be as omniscient as Jack Bauer's screenwriters. How very convenient to imagine that the government would somehow know all about a plot, including when the bomb will go off and who ...