Bookworm on Sep 10 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Sarah Palin
As you know, I’m willing to assume that Obama, rather than intentionally calling Palin or McCain a pig, used an infelicitous expression, which may or may not have had any subliminal resonance for him (although it clearly did for his audience). Listening to the speech, I find much more upsetting how inarticulate Obama is. This [...]
Bookworm on Sep 04 2008 | Filed under: Europe, Sex
I won’t comment. You know what I’m thinking:
They have amused us, angered us and sometimes - just occasionally - they have actually made us buy something.
But now the end could be in sight for adverts which use sex to sell after they came under the unforgiving gaze of Brussels.
And, this being [...]
Bookworm on Jun 16 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Feminism, Hillary Clinton
Christopher Hitchens has written a post-mortem on the alleged sexism characterizing Hillary Clinton’s abortive race to the top. Aside from scathingly examining both Hillary’s and the media’s myriad failings, he has this wonderful point to make about the double-edged sword her gender became in the race:
Going as far as it dared on the point, [...]
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