Monday Open Thread
Welcome to the Monday edition of your open thread. Some of you are probably just getting back to work after a vacation. I feel for you!
The NYT has an article on the website Jezebel, which stirred up some controversy by calling The Daily Show sexist.
When Jon Stewart announced on the June 29 episode of “The Daily Show” that “Jezebel thinks I’m a sexist,” some viewers may have been wondering: who exactly is Jezebel?
A post about airbrushing on a Ralph Lauren model.
At least a million and a half people can answer that question; that’s how many visited the site, a women’s interest blog, last month. Mr. Stewart’s comment was a response to Jezebel’s recent report on claims by women who say they faced a sexist environment when they were “Daily Show” writers and correspondents. The post garnered more than 211,000 page views, over 1,000 comments and a sharp retort from 32 female employees currently with “The Daily Show.”…
And Mr. Stewart is hardly the first media heavyweight the site has taken to task. Jezebel also weighs in on the sexually predatory nature of the fashion business, skewers celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow and Elle MacPherson, and chronicles the doctored photographs in fashion magazines in a regular feature called Photoshop of Horrors. Jezebel’s audience is 97 percent female, and the site says it gets more than 37 million page views a month and about 200,000 unique visitors each day.
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With 50 to 60 posts published daily, Jezebel offsets weighty topics with lighter fare. One popular feature, Midweek Madness, is a tongue-in-cheek dissection of the week’s glossy tabloids; with all the chatter about celebrity pregnancies, the Jezebel staff sometimes refers to it as “Unsolicited Uterus Update Weekly.” Dress Code is a question-and-answer feature that functions as a sartorial Miss Manners; Beauty 101 provides inexpensive and practical alternatives to the cosmetic tips espoused by Vogue and Allure.
It’s like a funnier, edgier issue of Cosmopolitan.
Sad news. A Delaware man was among those killed by a bomb blast in Uganda. The bombs are thought to be the work of an Al Qaeda-affiliated group.
Invisible Children, a San Diego, California-based aid group that helps child soldiers, identified the dead American as one of its workers, Nate Henn, 25, who was killed on the rugby field. The group said Henn called Delaware home and had played rugby at the University of Delaware while studying psychology. Henn’s Facebook biography says he graduated from UD in 2007 and from Concord High School in 2003.
“From traveling the United States without pay advocating for the freedom of abducted child soldiers in Joseph Kony’s war, to raising thousands of dollars to put war-affected Ugandan students in school, Nate lived a life that demanded explanation. He sacrificed his comfort to live in the humble service of God and of a better world, and his is a life to be emulated,” the group said in a statement on its website.
Deepest condolences to his friends and family.
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From my limited contact with college age men and women, I hearing that The Invisible Children group could be a big movement with many of them.
Less than 24 hours left to file, and Castle and Rollins (and Spencer, but I doubt he’ll actually do it) are still AWOL.
From experienced politicos, what are the advantages of waiting until the last minute? More media coverage? What? And can you actually form a candidate committee and raise money before you file?
Castle cannot really be thinking of rescuing my prediction…can he?
Female chemists everywhere are doing facepalms about this one. CBS’s Big Brother will have a female chemistry grad student as a contestant. She’s just your typical science geek:
Why do TV shows always do this:
Those shoes aren’t practical in a lab. I guess this comes from the “be careful what you wish for” files. I’m certainly for showing more female scientists on TV, like normal people. I just hope the impression most people get about female scientists isn’t this one.
My old boss’ brother was on Wife Swap. The producers told each member of the family what “role” they should play. Take what you see with a grain of sodium chloride.
In regard to the missing yet expected candidates in the Congressional and Senate races, I’m wondering if they have a different deadline than state-office candidates.
This link to FEC makes me think they have until July 30. While it seems obvious to be the case via that link, I never realized it was different from non-Federal office. Thoughts?
Interesting post by DougJ at Balloon Juice: “Cafeteria Constitutionalists.”
Now teabaggers talk about repealing the 14th, 16th and 17th amendments. Just a few years ago they wanted to add amendments (flag burning, ban same-sex marriage).
The only thing worse than Republican malevolence? ….survey says…Democratic incompetence.
White House denies NASA remark on Muslim outreach (Bolden thrown under the bus)
Yahoo ^ | July 12th, 2010
WASHINGTON – The White House is contradicting the NASA administrator’s claim that President Barack Obama assigned him to reach out to Muslims on science matters. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden recently told Al-Jazeera network that one of the charges Obama gave him was “to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science and engineering.” Some conservative activists criticized the remarks. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday that such activities are not among Bolden’s assigned tasks.
Godblock: A Filter for Religion-Free Internet Surfing
RSmitty … bringing common sense to politics(TM).
You’re right, as usual. The DOE’s calendar states that tomorrow at noon is the “DEADLINE for an individual to file for a Statewide Office, the General Assembly, a County Office or a Wilmington
Municipal Office.” I read “Statewide Office as meaning, well, just that, statewide office, held by someone who runs statewide, but I guess it’s different from Federal office.
D’oh.
Thoughts and/or prayers. Unbelievable.
Wow, that is an awful turn of the knife.