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Sorghum uses half the water of corn ethanol (at least in the growing), and the stalks, after the sap’s been pressed from them, can themselves be used in celluosic ethanol (or fed to livestock). But a) it must be converted within a day of harvesting, or the sugar is [...]
Steve Earle & The Dukes:
[...]James Taylor at Carnegie Hall, 1974:
[...]I ran into this pro-Burma rally in Manhattan yesterday. Photo taken on 77th Street between 5th and Madison:
Funnily enough, I later ran into an anti-Scientology rally in front of the Scientology Center on 82nd Street. Yesterday was [...]
Today is Mother's Day and I had a wonderful day. But I keep thinking about about thousands and thousands of women and children in Myanmar who need help. I'm proud of how BlogHer has responded. Earlier this week, Lisa Stone of BlogHer let [...]
Like nearly every holiday in the United States, Mother's Day seems to be as much about getting people to indulge in commercialism (Buy Mom this! Buy Mom that!) as it is about honoring your mother. While I am very happy to give my mom and mother-in-law cards telling [...]
First up, a few Mothers Day links:
An index of the best and worst places in the world to be a mother.
Mothers in prison celebrate the holiday.
Juarez mothers demand justice for their daughters.
The former vice mayor of San Jose discusses her experiences with gender discrimination in [...]
Today I'm thinking about my mother, who raised ten kids and made a hot breakfast for us every school day, and I'm wondering how she did it. Even though I'm not a mother, I'm smart enough to realize it's one of the most demanding jobs of all. Mothers feed their [...]
Until Friday I had never repeated something I had heard about Barbara Walters nearly 34 years ago. I told my daughter Berit. It must have been the rhythm of the highway. At the moment of disclosure I was behind the wheel of my car, [...]
Years ago a friend of mine frequently wore a t-shirt that had one of those retro comic strip characters - a woman right out of Mary Worth, maybe - holding her hand up to her mouth to stifle a scream. The thought bubble next to her head said, "Oh my [...]
When someone finally identifies a geographic area that they really like – where you feel comfortable and happy, where you could see yourself wanting to stay a while – it makes sense that you might start thinking about the possibility of buying vs. renting. But what if the place where [...]
“The Starbucks logo has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a prostitute,” explains alarmist Mark Dice, of a Christian group called The Resistance. “Need [...]
A plan to show some alleged Iranian-supplied explosives to journalists last week in Karbala and then destroy them [...]
Salon’s Broadsheet and the blog Time in Moments remind us about The Weather Channel’s history of not only tolerating sexual harrassment, but of punishing those female employees who refuse to submit to it — acts which are finally coming back to haunt them as they try [...]
Today many American Moms will be lavished with homemade noodle art, fingerpaintings and clay-pots with a plant we hope not to kill before the 4th of July. Some are served breakfast in bed, which may or may not actually resemble food. There are some Moms who will choose to sleep [...]
“Who could have known?”, etc. Perhaps the trail of dead bodies might have been a clue…
[...]This doesn’t exactly sound like a principled stand, does it:
Betty Lu Saltzman, a Democratic doyenne from Chicago’s lakefront liberal crowd, convened a small group of activists, including Ms. Katz, in her living room to organize a rally to protest the United States’ impending invasion of Iraq. It was late [...]
There’s something oddly moving about watching an older, wiser Sonny & Cher sing this years after their divorce. Compare and contrast:
[...]What did you write about this week? Leave a link and a short description in the comments.
And happy Mother’s Day!
addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.feministe.us%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F05%2F11%2Fshameless-self-promotion-sunday-53%2F'; addthis_title = 'Shameless+Self-Promotion+Sunday'; addthis_pub = ''; [...]Nothing quite reminds you of your failings like being a mother, mostly because you’ve replicated children who, because of those prenatal vitamins, your conscientious protein intake in the last trimester and the bedtime stories and books you encouraged them to read, have extraordinary verbal skills which they will use at [...]
