"Lower voter participation is a silent threat to our democracy...It under-represents young people, the poor, the disabled, those with little education, minorities and you and me."
-Nancy Neuman
Don't throw away your hard earned right to do so.
1. Why Women Should Vote.
2. American Women Suffrage.
3. Selma to Montgomery (click on "gallery" for photos).
4. Take Stock (click on "Voting Rights more information" for a description of the photos).
Friday, October 31, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Ce-le-bra-tion!
Celebrate good times, come on!
-Celebration by Kool and the Gang
Seven years ago today I was on a train racing though the Spanish countryside after completing my walk across Spain. Life moves fast.
-Celebration by Kool and the Gang
Seven years ago today I was on a train racing though the Spanish countryside after completing my walk across Spain. Life moves fast.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
What I've Learned
Everything is political- life, death, sex, gender, age, race, land, work, food, water, health care, education, religion,..???
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Who Are The People In Your Neighborhood?
Steven Colbert of The Colbert Report ( Both t's in the program title are silent) on the October 22, 2008 show.
Monday, October 27, 2008
They're Heeeere!
"When fascism comes to America, it'll be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross."
-Sinclair Lewis (American Author)
Palin Rally In Henderson, NV 10/25/08
A good article addressing this problem here.
-Sinclair Lewis (American Author)
Palin Rally In Henderson, NV 10/25/08
A good article addressing this problem here.
Friday, October 24, 2008
TGIF
Sonny and Cher (1960's)
And the beat goes on:
1. Palin denies accepting $150K in designer clothes.
2.Media Probe 'Mutilation' of McCain Worker in Pittsburgh -- Doubts Raised .
3. Obama or McCain: Who Has Made The Biggest Flip-Flops During the Campaign?.
4.Opie Cunningham Backs Obama.
And the beat goes on:
1. Palin denies accepting $150K in designer clothes.
2.Media Probe 'Mutilation' of McCain Worker in Pittsburgh -- Doubts Raised .
3. Obama or McCain: Who Has Made The Biggest Flip-Flops During the Campaign?.
4.Opie Cunningham Backs Obama.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Not A Cough In A Carload
I found this wonderful website put up by the Standford School of Medicine containing hundreds of images of tobacco ads. Check it out.
Happiness is...The Taste Of Kent (1966)
After that go here for a "comprehensive collection of cigarette commercials and other types of tobacco videos." I distinctly remember this Kent ad since the lyrics were rewritten and became a hit for The Ray Conniff Singers around the same time.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Look, I Bleed
Do you bleed?
-Katharine Ross as Joanna Eberhart in The Stepford Wives.
Trailer for The Stepford Wives (1975)
Turner Classic Movies showed the original version of The Stepford Wives last week and I just got around to watching it yesterday. It's a little slow but still a very creepy movie. Some of the chilling scenes include ( You may want to stop here if you have not seen the movie yet. Although I found it more nerve racking to watch because I already knew the plot.):
-Joanna's husband taking the family dog for a walk and "accidentally" running into his neighbor and then saying to him (about the neighbor's wife), "She cooks as good as she looks, Ted."
Then they both exchange knowing smiles, which doesn't make sense at the time since Joanna and he have only been in town a few hours at this point.
-The next day Joanna's two girls get onto a school bus filled with perfectly dressed children; boys in jackets and ties, girls in almost party dresses. That is a bit odd but the creepy thing is, all are sitting quietly in their seats with blank looks on their faces.
-Joanna's husband crying and telling Joanna that he does love her even though he knows he is going to have her killed and then replaced with a robot.
-Dale Coba (Great name. I have Paula Abdul's song Cold Hearted playing in my head right now. He's a cold-hearted snake, Look into his eyes, Oh ohhh, He's been tellin' lies), the man who has planned all this and is building the robots, saying to Joanna as she making coffee, " I like to watch women doing little domestic chores."
I bet you do, you sexist s.o.b.
-Joanna's robot double coming to kill her.
But the scene that sent an electrical shock through me was when Joanna, after realizing her best friend Bobbie is now a robot, stabs her to prove it. What is amazing about this scene is that right before Joanna stabs Bobbie she cuts her own finger and, while showing Bobbie the blood, says, "Look, I bleed. Do you bleed?"
Then she plunges the knife into Bobbie abdomen, right where her womb should be, proving that in no way are these robots real women and also showing the reason why all this is happening.
The men are afraid of losing control of their wives but underlying this fear, and taking advantage of it, is Dale Coba's own pathological fear and jealousy of women and their ability to give birth. In Cobra's mind the ability to give birth is the source of women's power. By building his own women he has shown he is just as, or even more powerful, than they are. His answer to Joanna, when she asks why the men are doing this is "Because we can" but what he really means is because "he" can. Once all the women are gone no one will be left to challenge that power.
-Katharine Ross as Joanna Eberhart in The Stepford Wives.
Trailer for The Stepford Wives (1975)
Turner Classic Movies showed the original version of The Stepford Wives last week and I just got around to watching it yesterday. It's a little slow but still a very creepy movie. Some of the chilling scenes include ( You may want to stop here if you have not seen the movie yet. Although I found it more nerve racking to watch because I already knew the plot.):
-Joanna's husband taking the family dog for a walk and "accidentally" running into his neighbor and then saying to him (about the neighbor's wife), "She cooks as good as she looks, Ted."
Then they both exchange knowing smiles, which doesn't make sense at the time since Joanna and he have only been in town a few hours at this point.
-The next day Joanna's two girls get onto a school bus filled with perfectly dressed children; boys in jackets and ties, girls in almost party dresses. That is a bit odd but the creepy thing is, all are sitting quietly in their seats with blank looks on their faces.
-Joanna's husband crying and telling Joanna that he does love her even though he knows he is going to have her killed and then replaced with a robot.
-Dale Coba (Great name. I have Paula Abdul's song Cold Hearted playing in my head right now. He's a cold-hearted snake, Look into his eyes, Oh ohhh, He's been tellin' lies), the man who has planned all this and is building the robots, saying to Joanna as she making coffee, " I like to watch women doing little domestic chores."
I bet you do, you sexist s.o.b.
-Joanna's robot double coming to kill her.
But the scene that sent an electrical shock through me was when Joanna, after realizing her best friend Bobbie is now a robot, stabs her to prove it. What is amazing about this scene is that right before Joanna stabs Bobbie she cuts her own finger and, while showing Bobbie the blood, says, "Look, I bleed. Do you bleed?"
Then she plunges the knife into Bobbie abdomen, right where her womb should be, proving that in no way are these robots real women and also showing the reason why all this is happening.
The men are afraid of losing control of their wives but underlying this fear, and taking advantage of it, is Dale Coba's own pathological fear and jealousy of women and their ability to give birth. In Cobra's mind the ability to give birth is the source of women's power. By building his own women he has shown he is just as, or even more powerful, than they are. His answer to Joanna, when she asks why the men are doing this is "Because we can" but what he really means is because "he" can. Once all the women are gone no one will be left to challenge that power.
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