Showing posts with label women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Republican women over the age of 65 are most hostile to #MeToo.

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Odd that we must rely on a razor company to make a statement of principle, but on the other hand, apart from Christmas presents, I'm g...
Sunday, October 14, 2018

Your Sunday must-read: "Relax, Ladies. Don’t Be So Uptight. You Know You Want It."

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As a male of the species, one acknowledging his fair share of missteps and imperfections, it's unclear to me how best to introduce this ...
Friday, September 21, 2018

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: An issue with LEO Weekly's Beer Issue, and a good review for Pints & Union.

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The Great American Beer Festival unspools this weekend, and anyone who's anyone in beer circles is out there in Denver, pounding the ...
Tuesday, November 21, 2017

LIVE TO EAT: "Behind the Scenes with Mimi Dabbagh" (from Food & Dining Magazine).

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We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different ...
Sunday, August 20, 2017

Women, sex, socialism and Slavenka Drakulić's How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed.

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Published in 1992. When I saw the NYT article (below) last week about the sex lives of Eastern European women during communism, it imm...
Friday, August 18, 2017

LIVE TO EAT: Read my profile of August Moon's Mimi Dabbagh in the Fall 2017 issue of Food & Dining Magazine.

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The Fall 2017 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is out. You can read the new issue at issuu . While not billed as such, the magazine...
Saturday, July 15, 2017

Where are they in NA? "Yes, I'm the 'Business Candidate,' and Yes, I'm a Progressive."

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This is somewhat the point I've been trying to make since local time began, though of course I'm no longer a business owner. But ...
Sunday, May 07, 2017

"Why Millennial Women Are Embracing Atheism" -- because there's no better day than Sunday to be a gadfly.

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I wrote the following in 2006 . --- A few weeks back, as Tribune syndicated religion columnist David Yount wrote carefully erected a...
Monday, January 02, 2017

Trump's victory encourages women to run for office. Let's hope they do so right here in New Albany, in spite of the Democratic Party's Gahanesque 2015 outrages.

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It's instructive for New Albanians to recall the 2015 election season. In close cooperation with Democratic Party chairman Adam Dic...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

On being a woman in Iceland.

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Not an Aunt Tammy here ... photo credit: The Nation . Rewinding to a time when it had been only 30 years since the Cubs played in the W...
Friday, June 17, 2016

Miss Representation: "You can't be what you can't see."

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Watch the video. I'm embarrassed to learn that it's six years old. Then, learn more ... and thanks to J for posting the link. ...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

"What’s driving the growth in cities? Small-business entrepreneurs. And many of them are women.”

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"What’s driving the growth in cities? Small-business entrepreneurs." Except in New Albany. Here, it's parks. What the Boo...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

Zirin on "Louisville Basketball and the NCAA’s Political Economy of Misogyny."

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Former University of Michigan and NBA star Jalen Rose, as quoted in the Detroit Free Press  on the topic of college athletic recruitment: ...
Saturday, May 30, 2015

Is (your city name here) a city designed for women?

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This may be the first essay I've seen that explicitly applies Jeff Speck's walkability pillars and other urban design theories to...
Monday, March 30, 2015

What they're saying: Roseberry, Knable, Staten and Rutherford.

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As the weeks go past in route to May's primary election, I'm providing periodic candidate statements of substance, mostly unreto...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

ON THE AVENUES: Shelter from the Strom.

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ON THE AVENUES:  Shelter from the Strom . A weekly web column by Roger A. Baylor. I’ll begin this week’s column with a robust act of g...
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Saturday, October 27, 2012

"Ladies, Don't Fall for Moderate Mitt!"

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Until Mitt Romney came along, I thought being religious precluded outright lying. And to think I wasted all those potentially devout year...