Archive for the ‘When Everything Changed’ Category
Queen City Shuffle
Across the river in local election results, Cincinnati voters made some major changes to the City Council in the wake of city and Hamilton County employees taking major budget cuts over the last year. Voters ousted four incumbent Republicans from Cincinnati City Council on Tuesday night, choosing instead seven Democrats, a majority of African-Americans, the [...]
November 9, 2011
· 
Zandar · 
90 Comments
Posted in: Proud to Be A Democrat, The Dirty F-ing Hippies Were Right, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It, When Everything Changed, Yes We Did
The Price of 9/11
The New York Times just published this graphic. To gloss it here, it documents what we have spent—in money—to respond to the attacks of 9/11. Here’s what it comes to: The cost to al Qaeda of staging the 9/11 attacks? About half a million dollars. Cost to the United States incurred as a direct result [...]
September 9, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 90 Comments
Posted in: Absent Friends, War, When Everything Changed
Book Chat: When Everything Changed (Week 5, “Women’s Liberation”)
“A classic example of liberal mother-daughter conflict” ... The movement’s various factions had little in common. The reformers did not want to overthrow the existing system—they wanted to throw open the gates so that women could become part of it. And they had little interest in changing the rules for private relationships between men and [...]
July 20, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 13 Comments
Posted in: Books, When Everything Changed
Book Chat: When Everything Changed (Week 4)
The Decline of the Double Standard There was certainly a lot more talk about sex, but it’s hard to tell how much of it translated into real-world activity. Women had never shared all that much information about their sexual behavior, even with friends. Maria Monsky, who was living on her own in Manhattan and working [...]
June 29, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 35 Comments
Posted in: Books, When Everything Changed
Book Chat: When Everything Changed (Week 3)
[Rosa] Parks, an old schoolmate remembered, was “self-sufficient, competent and dignified” even as a child, a student who always wore a clean uniform, planned ahead, and never sneaked over to the boys’ side of the school like some of the other girls did. Even in defiance she was a perfect lady. When the Montgomery bus [...]
June 22, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 37 Comments
Posted in: Books, When Everything Changed
Book Chat: When Everything Changed (Week 2)
Reading these chapters, concerning events that took place during my early lifetime, I’m struck by how much I unconsciously conflated the vast improvements in “women’s lot” with the natural opportunities of a wider community that came as I moved from elementary school to high school school and away from my working-class urban community to a [...]
June 15, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 28 Comments
Posted in: Books, When Everything Changed
Geeks assemble when a good man goes to war
The mid-series finale of Doctor Who is on BBC America at 9pm EDT, 8pm CT. I know there are a lot of you on here, although many of you may have seen the episode already through the magic of internet intellectual property theft, but just in case let’s give this a go. No spoilers please, [...]
June 11, 2011
· Sarah Proud and Tall · 69 Comments
Posted in: Getting The Band Back Together, Open Thread, Television, War, When Everything Changed
I have a 2008 Romney I’d like to sell you
Mitt Romney is in Michigan so I thought I’d read a Michigan newspaper and see how his campaign is coming. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney begins a swing through Michigan tonight with a dinner fund-raiser, followed by events in Birmingham and Grosse Pointe on Wednesday. Democratic activists were holding a sign-making event tonight in Detroit [...]
June 8, 2011
· Kay · 56 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Election 2012, Energy Policy, Enhanced Protest Techniques, Good News For Conservatives, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, Science and Technology, Teabagger Stupidity, When Everything Changed
Book Chat: When Everything Changed (Week 1)
Just like we (second-generation) feminists claimed back in the 1970s, changing the status of women would change everything, because women were everywhere… In reality… by 1960 there were as many women working [outside the home] as there had been at the peak of World War II, and the vast majority of them were married… More [...]
June 8, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 53 Comments
Posted in: Books, When Everything Changed
Open Thread: When Everything Changed
So, I will put up the first thread to talk about Gail Collins’ When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present on Wednesday, June 8, at 8pm EDT. Part I, the first three chapters, is just 60 pages, but we’ll see how far everyone gets… My paperback copy reprints [...]
May 29, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 40 Comments
Posted in: Books, Open Thread, When Everything Changed
