January 2021

You will find no shortage of analysis today on what the loss of Kennedy’s seat to the GOP may mean for Democrats. Is it the end of Obama, who has ratings lower than any President during his first year since Eisenhower? Or is this symbolic of more political losses to come for the Democrats in […]

Clinton and Obama in Cairo, Egypt. Image from Politico.com During the 2008 Presidential Campaign, I felt as though coming to the defense of Hillary Clinton was my job. I think it is fair to say that the level of attacks- both personal and professional- that were mounted on this woman were of a height and

Some chestnuts we need to retire in the new year: Obama is too cool. The Internet is killing newspapers. And the Goldman bonuses are worth getting riled up about. 1) Obama’s lack of emotional connection. It’s all the rage at the moment to denounce the president’s cool and his “inability to connect.” Where did the

In a post 9-11 world, perhaps nothing has come to represent the subjugation of Muslim women the way the burqa has. Despite the fact that it comes in various styles, each providing its own degree of covering such as the niqab or the chador, which many Muslim women choose to wear, it is the full covering scary black burqa with a slit just for the

There is so much symbolism couched in the attack on Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi yesterday that I do not know where to begin my analysis.  The one word which keeps coming to my head is basta, Italian for “enough.” Clearly that is just what the Italian people have had. There are only so many times one

When I first heard about the recent Swiss referendum to ban minarets in the country, all I could think about was how unexpected it was to get such a hostile  action from the Swiss. Weren’t they supposed to be the all loving, peaceful, neutral European country? Apparently not. The Swiss clearly are just as freaked

Remember the way it use to be? Shamed politician stands at podium, admitting affair, acknowledging homosexuality, while his disgraced wife stands loyally by his side. Anyone who didn’t know what the word humiliation really meant needed only to see pictures of Eliot Spitzer’s wife standing by her husband’s side as he confessed his involvement with

I generally try to avoid  blog posts on women lamenting about their overload of choices. Popular media loves to portray women as ungrateful and indecisive, eagerly waiting to complain no matter what option is made available to them.  It just feeds into the stereotype of women being unstable and overly emotional creatures. And it sells

So it is official: The face of HIV/AIDS is a woman’s face. Although it was former United Nations’ Secretary General Kofi Annan who made that famous statement a few years ago, the World Health Organization (WHO), confirmed the metaphor last week when HIV/AIDS was identified as the leading cause of death and disease amongst women