Not really strange that Morning Joe found the pregnant transgender man “disgusting”. What is more bothersome is that the anchors were visibly so upset at the news and so absolutely unbelievably shocked that one must cease to wonder why the country is truly headed in wrong direction (81% of Americans believe so, according to latest [...]
Posted on April 9th, 2008 by Saswat Pattanayak
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By LENORE SKENAZY
January 9, 2008
Rush Limbaugh put it best. Contemplating a photo of Senator Clinton looking wrinkled and weary a few weeks back, he asked, “Will this country want to actually watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis?”
Iowa said no way. New Hampshire seems to have said: Maybe. That’s a [...]
Posted on January 9th, 2008 by Jack Tuckner, Esq.
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By Sonali Chhibber
As you will read in the NY Times article today, Tuckner Sipser filed suit yesterday against Madison Square Garden and Cablevision Systems Corporation on behalf of our clients Diane Henson and Sheila Gay-Robbins. Once again MSG has proven that it has a wanton disregard for its female employees. The people in [...]
Posted on January 3rd, 2008 by Sonali Chhibber
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By Sonali Chhibber
A recent New York Time article entitled “Campaign to Raise Tomato Picker’s Wages Faces Obstacles†highlights the plights of tomato pickers amidst corporate clashes and compromises with the cooperatives.
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers wants to raise the price of tomatoes to a penny more per pound. This would mean that the wages [...]
Posted on December 28th, 2007 by Sonali Chhibber
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A New York judge has ordered court supervision of a lawyer for “objectionable conduct” toward a female opposing counsel who he said had a “cute little thing going on” during a deposition.
According to transcripts of the deposition, Thomas B. Decea of Danzig Fishman & Decea in White Plains also called Michelle A. Rice of Arkin [...]
Posted on December 24th, 2007 by Jack Tuckner, Esq.
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By Kristen Malone
Pop Quiz: What does the United States have in common with Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Qatar, Nauru, Palau, and Tonga?
Stumped? These are the ONLY eight nations in the world who have failed to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), a UN treaty ensuring the fundamental [...]
Posted on December 21st, 2007 by Kristen Malone
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By Jack Tuckner, Esq.
Did you hear the one about W vetoing the bipartisan supported child health care bill that would have provided an expansion of the federally funded, state-run health insurance program for poor children to cover an additional 10 million children? No? It didn’t get much air play. The cost of [...]
Posted on December 19th, 2007 by Jack Tuckner, Esq.
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By Jack Tuckner, Esq.
It’s nothing short of amazing to me that we all have mothers, sisters, daughters, wives and girlfriends in our lives given the objectifying, brutal and humiliating treatment we humans regularly accord the female of our species. We’re clearly not very fond of women as a general rule.
I guess it all [...]
Posted on December 18th, 2007 by Jack Tuckner, Esq.
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Dear Charlie,
I see you’re still a candy-ass dickhead. What a great idea - couldn’t
we all just be a LITTLE LESS ANGRY? Seems like you’ve finally turned
your mamby-pamby worldview into a BOOK. Nice touch with Robert Reich
and the Dalai Lama thing. Did you split your advance so you can all get
new matching calf-skin [...]
Posted on December 18th, 2007 by Alicia Fagan
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Wealthy Business Owners Voting Republican Vote for Own Interests, Even if Short-Sighted and Mean-Spirited
Everyone Else Votes Republican Due to Ignorance caused By Profound Stupidity and Laziness aided by Corporate Media Collusion.
By Jack Tuckner, Esq.
The story reveals that the United States Labor Department, the Bush Administration, the GOP candidates and the powerful Business Lobby are pushing [...]
Posted on December 2nd, 2007 by Jack Tuckner, Esq.
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