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Patriarchy Blaming: You’re Doing It Wrong

By Haley Swenson - Aug 22nd, 2008 at 6:03 pm

Ellen Goodman of The Boston Globe attempts to call out a whole bunch of anti-feminist nonsense that has gone down this year by passing out…

LOLBush Mania Sweeps Beijing

By Haley Swenson - Aug 14th, 2008 at 2:23 pm

LOLBush at the Olympics, brought to you by Richard Anderson at one of The Guardian’s blogs:

Check out the other eight images in the series.…

The Problem with Southern Pride

By Haley Swenson - Aug 14th, 2008 at 12:02 pm

The Tennessean reports that a high school student in Tennessee is challenging his school’s policy against wearing shirts with Confederate flags on them. He defends…

Don’t Give Branding So Much Credit

By Haley Swenson - Aug 13th, 2008 at 2:16 pm

One of my greatest political pundit pet peeves is when explanations for the political decisions of young adults (or any demographic, for that matter) rely…

Jew-Baiting Fails in Tennessee Congressional Primary

By Haley Swenson - Aug 8th, 2008 at 5:31 pm

Last night, incumbent Democratic Congressman Steve Cohen of Tennessee walloped primary challenger Nikki Tinker, whose campaign consisted almost entirely of attempts to sway voters from…

The Olympics’ Human Toll

By Haley Swenson - Aug 8th, 2008 at 10:03 am

As an avid sports fan–no, make that a lover of pretty much any skillful competition–I should be looking forward to the start of the Olympic…

The Serious Ramifications of the Energy Crisis

By Haley Swenson - Aug 8th, 2008 at 9:15 am

I was surprised to see this headline for an AP article on CNN.com yesterday: “For some, energy prices are threatening lives.” And while the article…

Is a Republican Anti-Christ Socialist Causing U.S. Oil Dependency?

By Haley Swenson - Aug 4th, 2008 at 2:30 pm

The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Libertarian Utah gubernatorial candidate Dell Schanze has been using that obnoxious auto-dialer machine to send Utah voters some messages…

Why Jesse’s Gender Matters in the Marriage Debate

By Haley Swenson - Jul 25th, 2008 at 11:55 am

I’ve been following the blogosphere dialogue surrounding Courtney Martin’s recent Prospect article pretty closely, because I think the way we view marriage is at a…

Today’s Peace Movement is Visible, Just Not on the Streets

By Haley Swenson - Jul 17th, 2008 at 1:38 pm

Salon has a piece this morning by Cintra Wilson, who formerly thought the anti-war tactics of the organization Code Pink were just annoying and embarrassing…

HPV Scare Isn’t Only Caused by Anti-Sex Crowd

By Haley Swenson - Jul 11th, 2008 at 2:37 pm

While I agree with Kay (and feministe) that the recent reports about the potential unsafe nature of the HPV vaccine Gardasil are actually greatly unfounded…

Could You Become a German Citizen?

By Haley Swenson - Jul 10th, 2008 at 12:21 pm

Der Spiegel has an online version of the citizenship test Germany recently introduced. Like the one used in the United States, it has caused some…

Why Wall-E is Worthwhile

By Haley Swenson - Jul 2nd, 2008 at 1:32 pm

Usually when I tell someone how much I loved a recent Disney/Pixar release, I feel the need to explain that I only saw the movie…

The Seventh Sin of Greenwashing

By Haley Swenson - Jun 30th, 2008 at 9:30 am

Last December, the environmental marketing firm TerraChoice detailed what it believed to be the “six sins of ‘greenwashing,’” a term environmentalists use to describe techniques…

Note to CNN: Indian People Are Not “Virtual”

By Haley Swenson - Jun 28th, 2008 at 1:12 pm

Hollywood makes personal assistants look like godsends, but have you ever known anyone who could actually afford one? A recent CNN article on Americans hiring…