Given that Obama is still alive, could we hold off on the hagiography for the moment?
I’m all for maternity leave, but the following is wrong: “Allowing women to breastfeed at work and therefore skip maternity leave is like allowing workers to eat at their desks and therefore skip a lunch break. It’s not a victory; it’s a defeat.” Many people will cause way too much harm to themselves and their babies if forced to stay away from work. Maternity leave is great but it can’t be obligatory. People are different.
The family of Angolan rebel sues the makers of Call of Duty.
Echidne is surprised that Michael Moore is oblivious towards sexism. She must have missed every one of his documentaries and books where Moore expresses profound nostalgia for the 1950s family model. He has repeated ad nauseam that he can’t imagine a greater abomination than a mother who works.
Amazon is planning to open up to 400 real bookstores! This will be do great.
A disgusting anti-Semitic gathering in Chicago.
“What people on the right and the left are arguing against are the hardline tactics progressives (and this is one area where liberals and progressives really need to be separated) take policing speech: labeling certain opinions as completely off-limits, words being refashioned as “violence,” deplatforming those who fail to fall in lockstep, going after some nobody’s employer because they said something idiotic on their Facebook page, etc.” Exactly. That’s precisely why I detest the professionally outraged Schmindies who pollute public space with their fake self-righteousness.
Cuban political prisoners condemn the Obama policy on Cuba. I understand their outrage completely but, to me, the goal of thwarting Putin that the policy achieved still matters more. Other than that, the rapprochement with Cuba is, of course, shameful.
Like this blogger, I also love writing in books. By looking at my books, you can easily spot my favorites because they have the most marked up pages.
The problem with Jewish museums. A very good, insightful article.
The refugee crisis allows for massive amounts of public money to be transferred to big business.
We, the highly qualified, highly educated immigrants, are used to being hated by the Lefties. But it seems like it’s getting popular among the Righties to hate us, too.
And here is yet another case of a person hiding from her individual problems behind fake political rhetoric.
“Look, I love Bernie Sanders like a play cousin. While I’d like to support his candidacy to be the Democratic nominee, I just can’t. Again, it’s not that he has bad ideas, it’s just because there’s no way in hell we’ll see any of his proposals become reality. There’s no political will on the Hill to make any of this happen. And, I’m sorry: Bernie Sanders may be Jewish but his name ain’t Jesus.” Exactly. And of course, Bernie finds support among the very young. They can easily waste 4 years on chasing after a silly dream and not feel it. The older we are, though, the more wasteful this seems.
A truly pathetic wedding trend.
Is Bernie’s famous sense of decency cracking under the pressure of the campaign?
And yet another study proving that life experiences of parents define the lives of children. Consider the horrible damage done to people who are not allowed to have the information about their real parents, grandparents, etc. They have no way of figuring out what’s happening to them.
After Iowa, everybody is rushing to point out how disorganized and underfunded Trump’s campaign is. That, however, makes things really scary because if Trump got such amazing results without investing money and effort, what can’t he do with a bit of both?
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