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Free to Be ... Me: Why Do Other People's Choices Make Us So Cranky?

Ester Bloom | Posted 09.23.2012 | Home
Read More: Salon.com, Katie Roiphe, Childless by Choice, Child-Free, Slate, Raising Children, New York Times, Media, Feminism, Gay Marriage, Single Women, Amanda Marcotte, Home News
Ester Bloom

Friends, this is very simple. If you don't want to go to other people's joyous ceremonies, don't go. If you don't want children, don't have them. If you don't want to get married, great! Save your money for retirement. I'm not judging you, so please do me the courtesy of not judging me.

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More Equality, More Sex?

Posted 11.19.2011 | Women
Read More: Amanda Marcotte, Gender Equality, Sugar Daddies, Gender Inequality, Sexual Economics, Tracy Clark-Flory, Roy Baumeister, Female Sexuality, World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report, Seekingarrangementcom, whatsyourprice.com, Love & Sex, Women News

A recent study takes an utterly unromantic look at sex and love, theorizing that they can be explained by a simple economic model: that sex is a resou...

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Is It Grown Up to Ignore Politicians' Sex Lives?

Delia Lloyd | Posted 08.14.2011 | Politics
Read More: Sexting, Weinergate, Amanda Marcotte, Politicians and Infidelity, Dsk Affairs, Politicians Sex Lives, Politicians and Extramarital Affairs, Anthony Weiner Twitter Photos, Anne Sinclair, Anthony Weiner Scandal, Dominique Strauss-Kahn Sex Scandal, Politics News
Delia Lloyd

We interrupt our regularly scheduled broadcast to talk about a Congressional Member's... um... member. (And no, I don't think that's an original.)

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Weekly Pulse: Japan's Nuclear Crisis Deepens

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Democracy Now!, Woo, Nuclear Waste, Kirsten Powers, Fuel Rod, RH Reality Check, The Nation, Quack, Injection, Diet, Radiation, Amanda Marcotte, Daily Beast, Tapped, Hcg, Birth Control, Fukushima Daiichi, Grittv, Kristen Chew, Tsunami, Reactor, RNN, Disaster, Contraception, Lindsay Beyerstein, Japan, Real News Network, Home News
The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger A second reactor unit at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan may have ruptured, authorities...

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Weekly Pulse: #DearJohn, Does Banning Abortion Trump Job Growth?

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Supreme Court, Law, Delivery, RH Reality Check, Reform, Alternet, Insurance, Affordable Care Act, Cancer, In These Times, Roger Vinson, Medicine, Health Care, Abortion, Human Rights, Women, Florida, Twitter, Rape, Interstate Commerce, #DearJohn, Medicaid, Maternal Health, Terry J. Allen, Amanda Marcotte, Mandate, Tapped, Labor, Profit, Prostate, Health, Urology, Medicare, Sudan, Obstetric Fistula, Scott Lemieux, Kenya, Home News
The Media Consortium

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger With millions of Americans out of work, House Republicans are focusing in on real priorities: decimat...

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Transcending Ovaries: Toward Male Equality in the Abortion Debate

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Law, Women's Rights, Ultrasound, Women's Issues, Catholicism, Children, Men's Rights, Pope Benedict XVI, Politics, Amanda Marcotte, Liberty, Freedom, Tampa, Viagra, Living, Janet Long, Operation Rescue, Love, Autonomy, Medicine, Abortion, Women, Equality, Ovaries, Men, Anti-Abortion, Parenting, Charles Blow, Gender, Religion, Birth Control, House of Representaives, Sex, Health, Sarah Palin, Religion and Politics, Florida, Constitional Law, Joseph Ratzinger, Politics News
Jacob M. Appel

In Florida's House of Representatives, Rep. Janet Long opposed a bill that would require women to pay for ultrasounds before an abortion, telling adversaries: "Stand down if you don't have ovaries."

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Memo to Netroots: Stop Tearing Down Obama's VP Shortlist

Erik Ose | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Barack Obama Vice President, Abortion, Evan Bayh, Democratic Nomination, Tim Kaine, General Election, Barack Obama 2008, Amanda Marcotte, OpenLeft Obama, 2008, Barack Obama, Presidential Campaign, Obama Vice President, Obama 2008, Netroots, John Edwards, Veepstakes, Obama Vp Pick, Evan Bayh Vice President, Obama VP, Evan Bayh VP, Democratic Convention, Obama's Vice President, Tom Ridge, Joe Biden Vp, Joe Biden Vice President, Joe Biden, Joe Biden Vp Pick, Politics News
Erik Ose

If the left is ever going to get serious about winning elections, we need to stop insisting on 100% ideological purity from our candidates. News flash: politics is about assembling winning coalitions.

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