Monday, July 27, 2009 - Posts
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It’s not a good week for Alpha Kappa Alpha. For starters, the group’s national president, Barbara McKinzie, may be forced out following allegations of using "the organization’s money to commission a $900,000 ‘living legacy wax figure’ of herself." Then in the New York Times Magazine profile of Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, there was an anecdote about the president dissing AKA on the campaign trail. ... (Read more in Double X.)
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There was a hugely fascinating article in this weekend's New York Times about a Japanese social phenomenon that needs to be read to be believed: A growing community of men are happily in love with 2-D animated characters. It’s like Lars and The Real Girl, but instead of being in love with anatomically correct dolls, these men are in love with pillows, decorated with the image of ... (Read more in Double X.)
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Katherine Heigl's newest romantic comedy, The Ugly Truth, is
clearly an insult to women—nay, humans—with brains. So why did it earn
a whopping $27 million at the box office this weekend? ... (Read more in Double X.)
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The U.K.'s Daily Mail has a photo of Madonna
that really must be seen to be believed. It's hard to know what to feel
about Madge's muscle-y arms, in all their ropy glory. Scared? Sad?
Personally inadequate? Slightly ashamed for pointing and staring at a
fellow woman's unconventional body? All of the above, I guess. ... (Read more in Double X.)
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My grammar-sensitive family is in a tizzy over the “On Language” column from this weekend’s New York Times Magazine on the absence of a gender-neutral singular pronoun,
a source of copy editing agony that has most recently surfaced on
Twitter. In truth, the 140-character limit of the Twitterverse ... (Read more in Double X.)
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I've never felt particular kinship for Nancy Pelosi. She has the
shellacked visage of a long-time politician, and she has said enough
tone-deaf things over the years to make me wince over the San Francisco
liberal stereotype. But I like Pelosi better for her laughing statement to Politico that she doesn't actually care about being liked. ... (Read more in Double X.)
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