You can always judge a man by the woman who marries him

I love this:
In truth, from the moment Michelle Obama stepped on to that podium at the Democrat convention what seems like, ooh, about three million years ago, we all secretly knew which way this race was going. Sure, he had big, sticky-out ears; sure, all those luvvies made that embarrassing YouTube song about him; but [...]

The woman who made TV cool again

NYT’s Sunday Magazine has an interesting profile on Lauren Zalaznick, the high-powered female “affluencer” behind Bravo–the only channel I can watch for 12+ hours straight in a single sitting.  (I heart reality TV marathons.)

Courtney Cox sounds miserable

This interview with Courtney Cox (registration required) in Marie Claire magazine is one of the most depressing things I’ve read in a while.  Punchline: Gorgeous, talented, happily-married mother has it all and cannot enjoy it because she’s terrified of looking a day older than 25.
The guy at the bar, she thinks, wouldn’t want her.
The big [...]

Women on Palin’s performance

Amy Sullivan reports on an all-female focus group’s reaction in Colorado:
“I’d like to have lunch with Sarah,” said one married woman, “but have Joe running my country.” Another agreed: “I think Sarah Palin is cute as a button and is good in sound bytes, but she just is not ready.” Before the debate, only 10 [...]

Cindy McCain

This New Yorker podcast–an interview with Ariel Levy, who wrote an article on Cindy McCain for the September 15th issue of that magazine–is pretty fascinating.  Mostly because Levy managed to articulate many of my gut feelings about Cindy. (I’m going to refer to her by her first name because otherwise I’ll start thinking I’m talking [...]

Katha doesn’t care

Katha Pollitt’s latest, on (what else?) Sarah Palin:
John McCain chose the supremely under-qualified Sarah Palin as his running mate partly because she is a woman. If you have a problem with that, you’re a sexist. She talks incessantly about being a mother of five and uses her newborn, Trig, who has Down syndrome, as a [...]

Last night on SNL

Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton, denouncing sexism on Saturday Night Live:

more about “Last night on SNL“, posted with vodpod

(Update: Sorry, the earlier clip must have been taken down from YouTube. This new one should work.)

Still-President Bush is still at it

The National Women’s Law Center is alerting supporters to the new HHS proposal that could further limit women’s access to health care.
The Bush Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently released a proposed rule that would undermine patient’s access to vital health services and information by greatly expanding existing laws intended to govern [...]