All Further Articles for 2012-08-29
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We Don't Want Easy: GOP Ladies Say Never Mind Wage Equity and Birth Control Access, Just Give Us Makeovers and Pink Woman Up-Tini Cocktails Surreal overload. Here's Ann Romney brightly telling us "it's the moms who always have to work a little harder" - thanks in large part to GOP policies - while a block away more white guys under the woman-friendly moniker Young Guns have created a pink-on-pink “Woman Up Pavilion” where ladies who have trouble with pesky "facts and figures" can buy jewelry, relax with Lady Lemonade, and “woman up” with hair and makeup touches at the on-sight (sic) salon. Ann says she loves Mitt and she promises, in this city with the highest rate of homelessness, that "no one will care more" than Mitt, even though he may eliminate HUD. But really, he will care about us, like, lots. Read more |
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Morally Indefensible: Tutu Refuses to Share Platform with Blair Ever a man of conscience, Nobel laureate, anti-apartheid icon and Archbishop Desmond Tutu has withdrawn from a leadership summit in South Africa to protest the presence of Tony Blair, whose support for the Iraq War the Archbishop condemned as "morally indefensible." Meanwhile, calls are mounting for the arrest of Blair for crimes against humanity. "The Discovery Invest Leadership Summit has leadership as its theme. Morality and leadership are indivisible." Read more |
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Daddy In A Skirt Coolest Father of the Year Award goes to Nils Pickert, the German dad of a five-year-old son who likes to wear dresses and skirts. To protect him from the mockery he knew his son would face after they moved to a small town - "Plainly motherland" - Nils made himself a role model by donning a skirt himself, "to broaden my shoulders for my little buddy." Read more |