Thursday, May 28, 2009 - Posts
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Ann, the Spelling Bee makes me squirm too,
sometimes. But it also makes me want to jump up and down—kind of like
those hyperactive contestants—and squeal, because I love spelling bees
so much.
Maybe I'm culturally wired for it: As the Washington Post noted on Tuesday, spelling bees have a special place in Indian-American nerd culture. ("In the same way that Hakeem Olajuwon's success in the NBA inspired a generation of Nigerians to take up basketball... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Tonight you can see the finals of the National Spelling Bee on television
and watch as the kids contort under the mounting pressure. They “tug at
their hair and display preadolescent tics that are hard enough to
manage in front of malicious middle-school classmates, let alone... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Jason Linkins
has a great piece up at Huffington Post quoting Justice Samuel Alito on
the virtues of judicial empathy. (“When I get a case about
discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who
suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because
of religion or because of gender. And I do take that into account.")
And also quoting Antonin Scalia on the power of courts to “make law.”
To which I add... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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One of America’s longest-running love triangles is about to come to an end: According to the official Archie Comics blog, Archie Andrews—hapless ginger kid and proto-Zack Morris—is getting married... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Last week, Michael Kinsley wrote a brutal takedown of the redesigned Newsweek,
attacking it page by page and graph by graph for failing to be readers'
"guide through the chaos of the Information Age." It's something that
editor Jon Meacham wrote in the editor's note that the new Newsweek
would not "pretend" to be, and that Kinsley thinks newsmagazines
totally need to be in order to survive. The assessment was shrewd, but
perhaps needlessly vicious, as noted in New York's Jessica Pressler's response, titled: "Michael Kinsley Attacks the New Newsweek, and We Feel Bad About It." (Full disclosure: I'm particularly sympathetic to Newsweek, since I used to work there. Plus it's owned by the same company that owns Double X.)
But if the new Newsweek's inaugural issue falls short of making sense of the week's chaos, I wonder what Kinsley makes of the New York Times today, which ran an article—ON THE FRONT PAGE, and with a jump to the highly coveted A3 page—about teenagers hugging... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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There is some brewing international trade drama between the E.U. and
Inuits about seal meat which is deeply, incredibly fascinating, and I
will fill you in later, but the main takeaway is: This fine lady,
Governor general Michaelle Jean, who is Queen Elizabeth's
representative in the Canadian government, butchered and ate RAW SEAL HEART... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Here's a guest post from Current TV's Sarah Haskins, whose videos will air weekly on Double X.
Each week she addresses a theme in marketing, advertising, or
entertainment aimed at women that she finds silly, such as the idea
that yogurt
is an unbelievably indulgent, wholly beloved miracle food for women.
She's giving XXers a sneak peak of tonight's video subject:
Young American Men, this is your warning. For so many years, you've
been safe: ensconced in fraternities, apartments with other dudes,
sports bars, and post-college intramural leagues.
Yet the natural order cannot long survive without balance. And thus
your herds, like deer in the backyards of New Jersey, must be thinned... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Bloomberg has a story proposing the health of global trade can be judged by extramarital affairs, and Latvian hookers. Why Latvian?... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Between the recession and feminism, we have reached the inevitable
moment when the stay-at-home dad becomes a real, quantifiable
phenomenon. Journalist Jeremy Adam Smith just published the Daddy Shift tracing this "startling evolutionary advance in the American family," and Lisa Belkin interviews him.
Smith argues that our maternal lens causes us to miss the things dads
do differently and well—encourage risk taking and independence, for
example... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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A guest post from Yale law professor Heather Gerken:
Over the last day, I’ve been fielding calls from
reporters, members of your tribe, many of whom have asked some
variation on the following questions: “What role does identity politics
play on the Supreme Court, and should those who support civil-rights
causes be happy about Judge Sotomayor’s nomination?” (This, for what
it’s worth, is almost a direct quote).
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There is only one sensible answer to such questions. Please stop.
Honestly. It’s embarrassing even to have to say this, but let me spell
it out... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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The Daily Telegraph reports unreleased Abu Ghraib photographs
include sexual torture and "rape." Does that have any bearing on the
debate over whether we should be allowed to see the photographs?
According to the story, the pictures include an American soldier raping
a female prisoner and a "male translator raping a male detainee." Other
photos include prisoners being sexually violated with a "truncheon,
wire and a phosphorescent tube"... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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