Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - Posts
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A guest post from Double X intern Meredith Simons:
If Sen. Jeff Sessions' 20 minutes with Sonia Sotomayor this afternoon is
any indication, Republicans feel a new urgency in this second (and
final) round of questioning. Before he began, Sessions' aides
distributed 70-page packets of highlighted, tabbed documents regarding
Sotomayor's tenure with the Puerto Rico Education and Legal Defense
Fund. When his turn came, Sessions dispensed with the usual niceties
about how well the nominee is holding up and jumped right in, accusing
Sotomayor of promoting the idea that judges' "backgrounds, sympathies,
and prejudices" should and do affect judicial decisions ... (Read more in Double X.)
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While I agree with Nina that the gesture of dying along with his terminally ill wife was insanely romantic, in my book, Sir Edward Downes was also insane ... (Read more in Double X.)
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What’s amazing to me about this double assisted suicide story is that it’s never come up before ... (Read more in Double X.)
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After The Wrestler, Nacho Libre, Rocky, When We Were Kings,
and scores of other films about hand to hand combat, you would be
forgiven for thinking there’s nothing that could go down in a ring you
haven’t seen before. You would be wrong ... (Read more in Double X.)
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A post from Double X writer Vanessa Gezari:
Emily, I think Reihan Salam is onto something in his recent piece
on the end of male power, in which he notes that the recession’s
disproportionate impact on men resonates in the world of politics,
where women are gaining ground (at least in places like Iceland) in a
backlash against male financial mismanagement. Salam is right that the
recession provides one more lens through which to observe global
power’s shift from men to women; he’s also right that the backlash
against men can spark a sometimes-violent secondary backlash against
women in places where they gain economic and political power ... (Read more in Double X.)
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A post from Double X writer Meredith Simons:
Of all the stylistically tone-deaf things Sen. Lindsey Graham said to
Sonia Sotomayor Tuesday, the worst was his declaration that he was
going to tell a 55-year-old judge with 18 years of appellate experience
how the world works ... (Read more in Double X.)
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Nina, I too was touched by the quiet, unassuming dignity of Edward Downes’ choice to die
clutching the hand of his sick wife. It seems to matter very much to
critics whether Downes himself were ill or not, which is interesting
given the universal prognosis for 85-year-old men (and, indeed, all of
us.) Is there really a significant ethical difference between his
choice and that of his cancer-stricken wife? ... (Read more in Double X.)
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A sobering story from Europe: It's been announced that the British conductor Sir Edward Downes died last week, alongside his wife, at an assisted-suicide facility in Switzerland. Lady Downes was in the final stages of terminal cancer; Sir Edward was ailing ("almost blind and increasingly deaf," according to his son), but his condition wasn't fatal. He just wanted to die with his wife ... Read more in Double X.)
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Emily, if you’re still collecting anecdotes from parents who are envious of their children, and children who outshine their folks, I can add to your list ... (Read more in Double X.)
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