I wouldn't exactly call a sexist joke from the president peripheral. And if it's so common to see women in leadership positions these days, why don't we have a female president yet? Even female senators and governors have been relatively rare.

Anyway, even if you think that subliminal potshots at female drivers, CEOs, governors, senators, reporters, firefighters, etc. (I could go on, but I'm starting to feel allergic myself) are "peripheral," we need to be on guard here for Republicans to get underneath the female leadership with their considerable crowbars. They are masters of wedging their levers in wherever there is a crack (sorry), and I think it's very important for OUR side to be extreeeeeeemely careful to make sure we're all sealed up AS A GROUP on how we talk about women in positions of power.

Yeah, I'm thinking it's impossible too....

It's clear that the "mother of five" voice is only ONE of them.

One of the first priorities ought to be election and finance reform. Can you imagine a Bush veto of that? (OK, I'm sure they could find a way, but it would be pretty damned hard when they're already on the defensive for corruption and for eroding our freedoms.) And if the Dems get stonewalled on other important things, democracy-restoring measures will help guarantee that the will of the people will prevail in future elections and the interests of consituents can be heard by future lawmakers.

Looks like time for another intervention, guys. Somebody call the cops just in case we need backup.

I have never paid for a haircut in my life. My husband cuts my hair, or I cut it myself. There is no "dressing" involved.

Am I from space, or is the LW? This is almost as bad as the time the woman wrote about her "full bush" not being enjoyed by her dates. I just don't live on the same planet as these people. I haven't taken a razor to my skin since high school.

But I guess I do have some advice. First of all, if you haven't already made the mistake, don't become your friends' business clients. Don't pay your tax preparer friends to do your taxes, don't pay your professional masseuse friend for a massage. And by all means, if you know someone who is a used car salesman, buy a car down the street. Long-term business relationships ought to be separate from long-term friendships.

If you can't give up some of your vanity, LW, you might have to give up your equally vain friend. How about if you both reconsider your priorities? It sounds like your "friendship" is based on superficiality and lies.

because I really, really wanted the Green Party to take the Democrats' place as the leftist party in this country. I clung to that notion (though I did not continue in many cases to vote Green) up until this election cycle, when I moved to Vermont and heard the foundering Green Party making the exact same claims about Bernie Sanders that the nasty Republican candidate made. (Those negative commercials lost Tarrant the campaign from day one.) I no longer trust a word the Green Party says. They are holding people to impossible standards. Those Democrats are not what they seem! The Poison Pills in the liberal Democrats' (and in Vermont's case, Independents') voting record never come up in these discussions somehow.... It is hideous from the Republicans, but from the Greens it is just pathetic. I know virtually nothing about Nancy Pelosi's voting record, but the criticisms I read in this piece smack of the same rhetorical balderdash I heard from Greens in the Green Mountain state about Bernie. The Progressive and Liberty Union parties are very strong here, and I will probably never entertain the notion of a Green vote again.

but i'm not in rome. vermont, actually. so my neighbors like me just fine. more importantly, so does my husband. (and he's good at cutting my hair too.)

Your article says that "Some scientists urged caution in response to the report, since research about dietary health is so famously capricious." The only person in the Washington Post article who urged caution was a representative of the meat industry.

Jesus. My toddler wouldn't let me put a blanket over her head for any reason. And if you give a two-year-old the idea that there's something wrong with something, he or she is sure to go out of the way to make it worse. Let her know it's somehow "wrong" for people to see you nursing and she'll start pulling up her mom's shirt at every public opportunity. Why does covering the baby's face have any relevance here? The issue (if there is one...) is whether the breast was showing, and the mother said it was covered. Being uncomfortable because you're sitting near a baby who's breastfeeding? That's YOUR problem, not hers.

The issue here is with the semantics of what constitutes "discretion." Does it mean we don't see the skin under someone's shirt (hardly an issue for most people most of the time anyway...) or does it mean we don't have any consciousness that someone in the seat behind us is nursing a baby? I tend to think the first, the stewardess thought the second. If it had been me, I would have made my case for why I was already discreet enough and kept my butt planted right where it was.

I don't see any substantiation from you either. Cough up the URLs, bud.

It really says that in this guy's presentation! I am not always 100% on with Broadsheet, though I am a general supporter, but it's worth having you guys and gals around just to get a little snapshot into scary stuff like that. Thanks for being here.