My friend Shelby Knox created a Facebook group that I am now helping to organize called Sarah Palin is NOT Hillary Clinton. We are working with other organizers to help expose the truth about McCain’s patronizing Palin ploy. We aim to educate women about the true nature of McCain’s selection of Palin and spread the […]
Entries from August 2008
Sarah Palin Is NOT Hillary Clinton
August 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Modern Sculpture?
August 29th, 2008 · No Comments
The media is reporting that McCain’s running mate will be Sarah Palin, the virulently anti-choice governor of Alaska. I smell a big foul pile of tokenization steaming and burning here. She is married to a native Eskimo, she is ten times younger than McCain, and she is a woman. I hope American voters will see […]
Tags: General
A Growing Epidemic
August 28th, 2008 · No Comments
There is a growing epidemic that has infected millions in our society. This illness has been termed “affluenza” by psychologists and social critics who argue that spending and consumption has become such a widespread part of social pathology that the acts of possessing and spending (excessively) has become a national pastime. Moreover, this social pathology […]
Tags: Politics · General · National issues · Ewww!
Go world :)
August 16th, 2008 · No Comments
The Beijing Olympics are about to enter their second week, and oh the stories that have ensued in the first week alone! Some are good, and some are not-so-good. Basically, they make for a once-every-four-years spectacle that is so unique in that it’s something we can all share and experience together.
Here are the top […]
Tags: Randomness · Sports · Check this out! · Television
The Politics of Cuteness
August 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment
The Beauty Myth is contagious…Click here to read about China’s disgusting replacement of one child singer with a lip-syncher because she wasn’t percieved as “cute” enough to represent the Olympic ceremonies.
Oh Paris, Always a Kidder..
August 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Paris Hilton recently released a response video to John McCain’s controversial “Celebrity Ad,” in which a female narrator refers to Barack Obama as “the biggest celebrity in the world” while alternating between clips of Obama and shots of Hilton and Britney Spears. Hilton’s video starts out with a male narrator speaking in an epic […]
Tags: Girl power · Media · Celebrities · Politics · General · National issues
My Op-Ed about Zac Efron, Guyliner, and How Masculinity Has Shifted
August 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment
I have an op-ed in the Christian Science Monitor today about how masculinity has changed. Zac Efron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and President Reagan all get shout-outs (although, not in necessarily good ways). Check it out!
xoxo,
Liz
Tags: General