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Wednesday, October 19, 2005 06:47 PM

An easier answer to questions

about just what are Ms. Miers opinions on abortion and, if you remember last week's news, homosexuality might be that she answered questionairs from voting groups with the answers she thought would encourage the members to vote for her.

Perhaps if someone did a search they might find that she was in favor of abortion when asked by another group.

Certainly such behavior wouldn't be a big surprise to us old cynics as we've seen it before.

Friday, November 4, 2005 02:11 PM

I think I'll make a T-shirt

showing a cylendrical 10inch ruler with the slogan; "Measure up or get lost"

Humph!!

Look for it at cafepress.com Sunday!!

Friday, November 4, 2005 04:34 PM
Original article: Treating women like girls?

It's the old bait and switch

and I think we've just been victimized by it. First the Pres nominates a clearly unqualified person -- but a female person -- for a seat on the Supreme court and nobody liked it. So he then nominates a dude with the best resume imaginable -- except that he is European white and likes the idea of keeping women barefoot and pregnant.

It's going to be a difficult nomination to fight because women's rights aren't very popular -- not even with many women. Except, of course, when it comes to HER unwanted pregnancy, violent husband, employer who fires her for being pregnant and so on.

Obviously someone has read The Prince.

Wednesday, November 9, 2005 02:47 PM
Original article: Sushi, maki or me?

Thank goodness

The contributors to Broadsheet have a real sense of humor and aren't all eat up with PC. Quote at point:

"No woman, ever, should be asked to wear $500 worth of sushi for ninety minutes without being able to eat it."

I've always found the over-cultivated sensitivity to offense the least useful attribute of some in the Feminist movement.

Friday, November 18, 2005 10:25 AM

Males and pink

May be even worse then you realize. I had a friend who worked in the prison system and he always had all the pink lighters he wanted because the prisoners wouldn't use pink ones.

Wednesday, November 23, 2005 03:45 PM
Original article: Back-to-work blues for moms

Shame

While Broadside has carried a lot of news which truly is of interest mostly to women (off, news thought to be of interest only to men is generally in the sports section) articles like this one certainly affect the father of the returning mom's children -- which certainly seems to me to take it out of "women's news".

I'd like to ask the intelligent and witty gentlemen who are responsible for a great amount of the words at Salon to blush with shame with the knowledge that War Room probably wouldn't have carried this story.

Yes I like Salon and I certainly don't want it to go away but...

Monday, November 28, 2005 04:27 PM

If you think that women DON'T have an expiration date

for some men, do your best not to get any older then 40.

And if you think screening young males for a suitable date who has something (for heaven's sake) on his mind besides sex on the first date, don't try screening their grandfathers!!! They figure they can't wait for a date.

Tuesday, November 29, 2005 10:30 AM

Instant identifier

How kind of pricks to make their instant identification so easy. Think of the time these shirts will save women!

By the way; the opposite of "prick" is "dimple".

Wednesday, November 30, 2005 02:58 PM
Original article: The more noble prize

Our Emily

You near as nothing made me cry this time. I hadn't realized that she died unpublished. All I can really say is "that stinks".

Friday, December 2, 2005 11:47 AM

If a man doesn't want to be a father

and somehow the current administration has prevented him from learning that the use of a condom enormously limits that risk, he surely must have heard somewhere that abstinance is a sure-fire way to avoid fatherhood. Since there are vanishingly few cases of a woman raping a man, this should adequately manage that problem.

And for those men who do want to be fathers, may I suggest that they find a woman they can love who wants to be a mother and get married.

Despite the improvement in legal remedies against deadbest fathers, nearly all children being raised by their mothers alone live at a significantly lower economic level then their fathers do.

Any statement implying that for a woman having a baby only takes 9 months is utterly unrealistic. Having a baby takes a minimum of 19 years for the mother.

Friday, December 2, 2005 06:04 PM

Of course it's unfair

but wait till you stick out in front like you'd swallowed a watermelon and you have to pee for two and then give me your considered judgement on the unfairness of child production!

I was 23 before reliable birth control (i.e. the pill) was generally available to American women who did not have any particular menstrual problems. It really isn't possible for younger folks to comprehend just how different the world was then. While it's perfectly possible for women to resent that they bear the burden of responsibility for controlling their fertility--I was never one of them.

I'm sorry that men as yet don't have as good a non-surgical control but I suspect that if enough of you wanted it, the drug companies would have figured it out. On the other hand, the pill has all sorts of side effects; are you prepared for that? Women literally risk death, either way.

Let's also not forget history. It's not all that long since a father had absolute possession of his children. The mother not only had no right to her children, a married woman owned nothing whatsoever except what her husband or father was inclined to give to her. I really think you guys can put up with a generation or two of occasionally lacking direct control.

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