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Gender Discrimination in Health Care

By wws on Tue, 09/22/2009 - 10:23am |
Few women in America -- even among the wingnuts -- would disagree with Nancy Ratzan, who wrote the following article about gender discrimination in health care that appeared in The Miami Herald this morning:What women need from healthcare reform" by...
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"Be Prepared": the motto of a good scout

By wws on Wed, 07/29/2009 - 6:39pm |
When I first came to TPM I wrote a lot -- perhaps ad nauseum -- about the contrast between FEMA and insurance company response to Hurricane Hugo -- in Charleston, SC, in1989 -- and to Hurricane Ivan, which pulverized...
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Truth or Dare/Shouts and Whispers

By wws on Sat, 06/20/2009 - 4:49pm |
Because so much of what we read and write about focuses on what is wrong with X or Y, I wanted to make a contribution, and encourage others to make contributions, about what we consider to be right.  For...
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Northern Exposure

By wws on Tue, 06/02/2009 - 10:29pm |
Some harsh words were said all round during the past week: about the South and  about Southerners, about those who - whether ancestrally or personally -- have been hurt in the past by an evolving, but still flawed southern...
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Southern. Let the blame games begin, if they must, but hey....

By wws on Wed, 05/27/2009 - 8:47pm |
We can all agree that thorough, thoughtful interpretations of historical fact matter. We know this process requires more than a knowledge of facts on a timeline, especially when the perception of those facts is combined with the perspectives and...
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What Women Think About Writing

By wws on Sun, 03/08/2009 - 9:56pm |
With apologies to Flowerchild. If I had posted all these quotes on her thread, I would have hogged it more egregiously than I did (in my enthusiasm).   Here, then, is what smart women I admire think about writing: "Censor...
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Ethics and Anger; Oh, and also, Feminism

By wws on Thu, 03/05/2009 - 7:33pm |
A few years ago I attended the funeral of a venerable Charleston grande dame whom I knew well. I respected her because she was a woman so sure of herself that, despite being a legatee of the old south,...
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Shared Creativity: Just For Fun

By wws on Sun, 02/15/2009 - 12:55pm |
I hereby challenge the wordsmiths of TPM to practice for the annual "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night" competition, sponsored by the English Department of San Jose State University that "recognizes (and rewards) the worst examples of  'dark and...
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Shared Housing

By wws on Sun, 02/15/2009 - 11:29am |
2) Housing. As Vance Packard said a long time ago in his book, NATION OF STRANGERS, we've lost the cohesion and mutual support we had as a society when people stayed put, sharing houses or living across the street from family...
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Job Sharing

By wws on Sun, 02/15/2009 - 10:29am |
Last week my wry wit TPM Cafe editor, Boyd Reed, gave me a Friday deadline for converting a long-winded comment I made on Aunt Sam's blog into three separate blogs on the concept of sharing  -- which is, in my...

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