I’m Not Okay with Chris Brown Performing at the Grammys and I’m Not Sure Why You Are. Editor’s note: Today (May 5th) is Chris Brown’s birthday. This piece was one of the most popular in our history and we want to memorialize his birthday by reinforcing a message we believe in. I’m sick and tired of people acting like it’s no big deal that Chris Brown will be performing at the Grammys. I’m frustrated that the mainstream media is covering this story like it’s any comeback story, like an exiled prince’s return to a former glory, like this is another political timeline — as though some rich and powerful old white men in the music business have not just issued an enormous ‘f**k you’ to every woman who has been, is or will be on the receiving end of domestic violence.
We should be furious. Why aren’t we? A Long, Long Time Ago, or Three Years Ago, But Who’s Counting? Both Rihanna and Brown had been scheduled to perform at the Grammys the following evening. Then the Internet exploded. I was a full-time entertainment writer at the time, so I had a front-row seat to the action. Mary J. African Cave Yields Evidence of a Prehistoric Paint Factory. Iowa Couple Married 72 Years Dies Holding Hands, an Hour Apart. A devoted Iowa couple married for 72 years died holding hands in the hospital last week, exactly one hour apart. The passing reflected the nature of their marriage, where, "As a rule, everything was done together," said the couple's daughter Donna Sheets, 71. Gordon Yeager, 94, and his wife Norma, 90, left their small town of State Center, Iowa, on Wednesday to go into town, but never made it. A car accident sent the couple to the emergency room and intensive care unit with broken bones and other injuries. But, even in the hospital, their concerns were each other.
"She was saying her chest hurt and what's wrong with Dad? Even laying there like that, she was worried about Dad," said the couple's son, Dennis Yeager, 52. "And his back was hurting and he was asking about Mom. " When it became clear that their conditions were not improving, the couple was moved into a room together in beds side-by-side where they could hold hands. "They joined hands; his right hand, her left hand," Sheets said. In Oral History, Jacqueline Kennedy Speaks Candidly After the Assassination. Wisconsin GOP Goes After Equal Pay for Equal Work.
Late in the evening, on February 22, the Wisconsin Legislature turned back the clock gutting key provisions of Wisconsin's Equal Pay Enforcement Act (Act 20). Rep. Chris Taylor (D-Madison), a long time women's rights advocate lamented: "It's like we're going back to 1912. We are fighting the same fight our mothers fought, just to be treated equally. " Senate Bill 202, authored by Senator Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend), passed on a party line vote. According to the Wisconsin Alliance for Women's Health, Act 20 sought "to secure equal pay for the thousands of working families who are denied fair pay due to wage discrimination based on race and gender.
" Specifically, the act was intended to deter employers from discriminating by opening an avenue to bring discrimination cases in state court with stiff penalties. Previously, victims were required to pursue lengthy administrative remedies through a state agency. "This is the Last Straw" Rep. Rep. Panic in Paradise. Anxiety: We worry. A gallery of contributors count the ways. When friends ask about my Maui honeymoon, I tell them that Brian and I didn’t leave our hotel. Wink, wink. “You must have had a really great time!” Everybody chuckles. I want them to imagine that we enjoyed a tantric Hawaiian escapade, frolicking like soap stars in 600-thread-count sheets.
I actually spent my vacation in sweat pants, eating room-service burritos from a Styrofoam tray while propped on pillows, stuffing myself like some deranged queen, watching “The Golden Girls” reruns while my husband paced from my bedside to the balcony that overlooked a golf course. I am going backward. “We can leave right now if you want to,” he’d say, golf course in the distance. The trip was the pinnacle of years of panic attacks I’d fended off with anti-anxiety drugs that never quite seemed to click. Panic attacks are little deaths. Sophy Hollington We went to a Mexican restaurant.
“I need to get out of here,” I hissed. Even Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend on It. Navigating Love and Autism. The Wrong Inequality. My Trip to Madison: Bikes, Brews, Burgers and a B&B. Slide Show What a great idea — if only I had thought of it: take a trip to Madison, Wis.; stay in a cozy bed- and-breakfast; get around by bike; test out burgers, brats, cheese curds and microbrews; and look for some booze to bring back home. Two weeks ago, I left my travel plans up to a reader vote that just as easily could have had me staying at a chain motel in Nashville and touring city parks by public bus. But Madison and food and drink and bikes won, and I spent last weekend reveling in a cyclist-friendly city of 230,000 with a restaurant and bar scene that punches well above its demographic weight.
Because I was planning this trip at the last minute, there were a couple of hitches: the cheapest flight to Madison from New York was $800, more than twice as much as I’ve ever spent on a domestic flight in this job. And the lowest-priced bed-and-breakfast with available rooms in Madison was $150 a night, way above my budget. Turned out I could, and it didn’t (much). Janet Mock: It Happened to Me: I Told My Boyfriend I Was Born a Boy. This essay originally appeared on xoJane.com, Jane Pratt's new website where you can admit to anything -- no judgement. When I was a kid I had a series of dreams that involved Immature. You know, that baby boy band starring Roger from Sister, Sister? Anyway, my dreams usually involved group member LDB (Little Drummer Boy) singing "Never Lie" to me in the tree that stood in front of my window.
Since then, I've sat across from many men on dates and wondered what their fantasies were. By then mine always involved them really liking me and me playing the distant, mysterious girl they couldn't quite figure out. Really, it was more about me not getting too close. Oh, I keep forgetting you may not be the T, so you may not know my T or what T is at all. My T is basically my story, my story being that I'm a young woman who happens to be transgender. I was born a girl but in a boy's body, as media headlines tend to scream when telling stories like mine.
Will I wait for you? How do I say this? Smithsonian Sunken Treasure Show Poses Ethics Questions. Notes From a Dragon Mom. Ban Birth Control? They Wouldn't Dare... Wake up, sleepyheads: the antichoicers are coming for contraception. First they came for abortion, but I didn’t care because abortion was for sluts. Then they came for sex ed, but I didn’t care because the kids can learn all they need to know at home.
Then they came for birth control, but… Wait a minute! Birth control? They’re coming for birth control? About the Author Katha Pollitt Katha Pollitt is well known for her wit and her keen sense of both the ridiculous and the sublime. Also by the Author Yes, let’s erase stigma. Oh, how we love those Republican “straight-shooters.” After the Senate rejected a House attempt to defund Planned Parenthood, Republican Representative Cliff Stearns, chair of the energy and commerce subcommittee, demanded that PP turn over reams of documents going back twenty years. As is so often the case in the war on abortion, the most damaging action is in the states.
Would #26 really ban the Pill? No Surprise for Bisexual Men - Report Indicates They Exist. John Nichols: Walker tries to lie his way out of political mess he’s made. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s flight to last week’s National Governors Association meeting in Salt Lake City got canceled, and he ended up sleeping on the floor of the Denver airport. That may turn out to be the highlight of Walker’s July.
On Tuesday, July 12, “real” Democrats won all six primary elections to choose challengers to six Republican state senators who had backed Walker’s agenda of attacking unions, undermining the authority of local governments and school boards, selling off state assets to friendly corporations, and cutting more than $1.5 billion in funding for schools and local services. The Republicans were so scared of the recall challenges to the Walker-allied senators that they ran “fake” Democrats — Republican activists posing as Democrats — in the primaries.
The GOP ginned up last-minute stealth campaigns to try to beat the real Democrats. But the strategy failed miserably. That was a bad Tuesday for the governor. Walker was, of course, lying. He made no “mistakes.” Republicans Against Science. To see what Mr. Huntsman means, consider recent statements by the two men who actually are serious contenders for the G.O.P. nomination: Rick Perry and Mitt Romney. Mr. Perry, the governor of Texas, recently made headlines by dismissing evolution as “just a theory,” one that has “got some gaps in it” — an observation that will come as news to the vast majority of biologists. But what really got people's attention was what he said about climate change: “I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their projects. That’s a remarkable statement — or maybe the right adjective is “vile.”
The second part of Mr. In fact, if you follow climate science at all you know that the main development over the past few years has been growing concern that projections of future climate are underestimating the likely amount of warming. But never mind that, Mr. I could point out that Mr. So how has Mr.