A Thank You Long Overdue

My dearest friend of 32 years has an annoying habit of reading my mind, being there for me above and beyond the call of duty and coming up with the most thoughtful, if eclectic, methods of helping me get where I am efforting to go. As many of you know, today is Uppity’s birthday.  We [...]

Maureen Dowd Eats Crow…Maybe

I missed this NY Times column on Hillary Clinton, entitled “State of Cool,” the first time around, but since I have devoted a chapter to Ms. Dowd and her negative Hillary musings, I felt I ought to report her mysterious sea change, if indeed that is what it is: Hillary is not going to President [...]

Why Does Society Excuse Bill Maher?

Election results in the 2010 midterms revealed a surprising drop-off in the numbers of women who voted for Democrats, so President Obama’s current push to woo women back to the fold is not surprising.  The debate is being framed as “Republicans’ war on women.”  But the real war on women is something different than we [...]

More Revisionist History on Hillary ’08 from Amoral Democratic Operatives

My head wanted to explode when I clicked on The Daily Beast and read Democratic political operative Paul Begala’s article raving about how great Hillary Clinton would be as a presidential nominee in 2016 – if she could just avoid the mistakes she made in her “disastrous” 2008 presidential campaign.  Yes.  Disastrous.  In Begala’s words: “…her last campaign was a [...]

Dirty Words on Clean Skin by Anita Finlay — Website Launch!

In an election year, we can be sure of two things:  First, the incumbent and his opponent are going to pander to groups where their poll numbers need shoring up.  Second, we can count on the mainstream media to function as the de facto PR firm for their favored son, further ginning up whatever problem said [...]

Dirty Words on Clean Skin: The Real War on Women

In 2008, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama waged an epic battle for the presidential nomination that captured the imagination and hopes of millions, but the joy of watching a qualified woman vie for the presidency was marred by newsmen and pundits calling Hillary Clinton a hellish housewife, Nurse Ratched, she-devil and bitch.  What I witnessed [...]