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More fun with sales representatives. 20 Feb 2011 | 08:26 am
This would have annoyed me far less if: 1) I had not spent two hours on the phone over the last two days with Travelocity, trying to get tickets reissued; and 2) I had not spent a lot of time last n...
More on Egyptian Women's Organizing. 19 Feb 2011 | 07:13 am
Following up on my post from yesterday, I want to share this article that my colleague sent me. It challenges both Chesler's and my own assumptions about Egyptian women's organizing. I underestimated ...
Western Feminism Sucks (or, Phyllis Chesler's misreading of Egypt) 18 Feb 2011 | 10:38 am
I received an email from The Phyllis Chesler Organization, perhaps because they got my name from another listserv I'm on or a professional organization that I belong to. I admit to being shocked, thou...
I don't know if I've been living in the midwest for too long... 17 Feb 2011 | 04:26 pm
...or if this publication has become more confrontational than it was ten years ago. I definitely felt more defensive when I started reading it today than I used to when I read it a decade or so ago, ...
Vagina Monologues and Transwomen 14 Feb 2011 | 05:28 pm
I try not to write here without first checking my facts, but this is going to be a kind of second-hand thing because I don't have access to the script I want to write about. For the second year in a ...
The Devolution of BRAVO. 10 Feb 2011 | 07:38 am
First, I have to ask: do you remember when Bravo portrayed itself as an arts network? That showed fine arts performances? That's where James Lipton's show came in, and they used to have art films, eve...
The DFL and Me 9 Feb 2011 | 05:01 pm
This may be one of those situations that, if it were happening outside the U.S., would make me an Ugly American. I'm not sure. But let me preface this by saying that I've figure out how to vote in a f...
Mississippi Masala and telling the difference between Indian characters. 8 Feb 2011 | 03:22 pm
Some of you might remember this film by Mira Nair from the early '90s. I keep coming back to it because, despite the lack of chemistry between Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury, it is a beautiful...
Where I have been 31 Jan 2011 | 08:37 pm
I've been here in the middle of a Minnesota winter, and people, I think I've been a little bit depressed. I'm not sure, but I have lost some of my energy and zest, and I think it has a bit to do with ...
Snow! 13 Dec 2010 | 06:21 pm
We are snowed in; this is one of very few times in my life when I actually have not been able to leave the house because of the snow. In Buffalo, there were a couple of heavy snowstorms (and a couple ...
