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Was Carolyn Maloney not adorable on Colbert last night? She has a new book out, Rumors of our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated , about how little the wage gap has narrowed over the years—and what is the glass ceiling made of, Plexiglas? But Maloney Read More...
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We are both Brady Bunch addicts, I learn from Jodi Kantor's story in the New York Times today . What does this mean? Well, for me it means lots of childhood afternoons spent reveling in the scrapes of a family that was even bigger than mine. Since I'm Read More...
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Oh gosh. Can I hide in a closet for the next two weeks, until, like a bad skin peel, this movie flakes off and goes away? For the first five or six or 20 seasons that it was on, I avoided the show, out of principal. What principal, I'm not sure—just the Read More...
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Anyone else catch yesterday’s ripped-from-the-headlines Law & Order finale ? About a New York governor who hires expensive young hookers (and some strange, tangentially related murder)? Anyone else notice that the single biggest difference between Read More...
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While we're on the topic of race, I happened onto something quite difficult to watch on MSNBC this morning, something my husband saw as "a wake-up call for white guys everywhere.'' Right there in front of God and all of America, Chris Matthews was trying Read More...
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On The Daily Show last night, Jon Stewart showed footage of a few of Eliot Spitzer's predecessors in the "Parade of Shame,'' who, as he said, were "all following the one simple rule of public humiliation: Bring a date.'' Then Samantha Bee gave us the Read More...
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So behind every squeak is a little bit of grease? These super-clean super-moralizers usually do turn out to have been railing against themselves all along. And if I feel like looking away, I guess it's lucky for me that I have finally given in and made Read More...
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So glad that Ann pointed readers to the save-the-time-use-survey campaign. It would be heartbreaking to lose a source like that, which—like reports by the National Center for Health Statistics, and the Census Bureau—offer such valuable real-time snapshots Read More...
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Like Liza, I am not a huge fan of the b-word; how about we send Cindy to that boy's house? Tina Fey's "Bitch is the New Black" joke about how it takes women mean as nuns to get things done is funny—as was Hillary, in her good-natured appearance on this Read More...
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I must admit, I was getting very frustrated by Lost last season, in the same way I used to be frustrated by The X-Files , namely: They just pose a lot of questions and they never answer them. That is, until my colleague Juliet let me in on the Lost formula. Read More...
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