Your friends, your politics

The anti-same-sex-marriage-from-the-left arguments keep on popping up (along with passionate arguments about whether it is sheep-like or a n...

News and commentary

I know I should follow the Supreme Court news from the newspaper. And I am. These are exciting times! But the Facebook response is so compel...

Asians are the new Jews: political edition

Bloomberg has the scoop : Romney won among all voters making more than $100,000 a year by a margin of 54-44. Asian-Americans happen to be th...

"Exotic" Jews and more

-Electricity returned, Obama won. Lights are now flickering again. Is Romney, too, planning a surprise return? -A friend forwarded me Roy Gr...

Class, politics, class

All is back to normal-ish in these parts. Tree limbs are looking a bit less precarious, and I've calmed down some from my maniacal cooki...

WWPD, honorary Belgian

Back from a whirlwind trip to Belgium for my brother-in-law's lovely wedding. I traded roadside deer for roadside (but penned-in) cows a...

The tristate area

Cropped for emphasis. The "are you Jewish" set were way off their game that day, going right past me twice  and asking the questio...

The politics of YPIS

Who is it who uses the expression, "your privilege is showing"? In those words, or that message phrased otherwise? YPIS, we may im...

The referendum on meritocracy

Watched some of last night’s DNC, fell asleep post-Michelle (who had just proven herself capable of being president as well as supermodel-in...

"[T]he most important American value of all"

I've watched some of the RNC, and can make the following observations: -The guiding principle of the speeches appeared to be  scrappines...

What need might we possibly have for feminism?

Nothing particular to add re: the Akin controversy. I mean, other than that those who believe life begins at conception, but who graciously ...

Quote of the day

A ringing endorsement : "[T]here have been no recent accounts about bullying behavior by Mr. Romney."

Johan the Plumber

When the rest of socially-liberal American womankind was still worried that we were looking at a Santorum presidency (or are we still?), I w...

Feminist issues vs. women's issues

I mentioned Emily Bazelon's response to the Limbaugh debacle in an update to the earlier post , but since that one's getting unwiel...

Real issues vs. women's issues

As a rule, I don't think that only members of Group X should be allowed to weigh in on issues concerning Group X. But maybe it's not...

The talk, the walk

Says David Brooks : "People in the educated class talk like social progressives and behave like traditionalists." One hears variat...

Dog and man

"If liberalism is the religion of secularized American Jews, is it possible that illiberalism will become the religion of greater numbers of secularized French Jews?"

I of course read historian Robert Zaretsky's article about the rightward shift of French Jewry with great interest. Zaretsky makes a ke...

Of Santorum and Camembert

In much the same vein as the post below . Dan Savage is apparently incapable of condemning the readily condemnable homophobia driving much o...