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Sunday Morning Open Thread

by murphy on March 7, 2010

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Hey There Pumas! It’s another sunny late winter day in the Great Metrowest so let’s get cracking! Shocking shocking news out of the Vatican today. I’m assuming you saw this story over at Uppity’s about how Al Gore stole the Nobel Prize from Irena Sendler. Now, that really IS shocking. My husband’s family is Norwegian, [...]

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Vote FOR Women

by murphy on September 16, 2009

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Morning News: Women are Better Politicians Than Men. “Are women more effective lawmakers than men? That’s the preliminary conclusion of a study conducted by researchers at Stanford University and the University of Chicago, who say that on average, women in Congress introduce more bills, attract more co-sponsors and bring home more money for their districts than their male counterparts do. [...]

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The Women’s Movement is Ours for the Taking

by murphy on September 1, 2009

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Learn more about this film and the September worldwide movement in support of it HERE.  For New York area Pumas, there will be a special FREE screening of the film Monday, September 21st at Hunter College the School of Visual Arts,  with the director and producers, including Abigail Disney (niece of Walt and Lily, and also [...]

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Kill The Bitches

by murphy on July 7, 2009

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  Boston Boomer has a great post up about the insanity of trying to be sane in an insane world. Her citation of this study, in which sociologists had themselves admitted to mental hospitals by pretending to be crazy and then acted normally once they were committed, only to find that the only people in [...]

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