Links of the Week 13 June 2008

Top Five
In No Particular Order

Sexism Might Sell But I’m Not Buying It: http://www.womensmediacenter.com/sexism_sells.html

States Seize Stimulus Checks: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91303980&ft=1&f=1001

Women, Repeat This: Don’t Ask, Don’t Get: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/jobs/06pre.html?scp=21&sq=women&st=nyt

Colleges should explain why costs are so high: http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080608/OPINION09/806080407/1004/OPINION

BBC uncovers lost Iraq billions: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7444083.stm

Health

Worst Food in America: http://www.menshealth.com/eatthis/20-Worst-Foods/1_The_Worst_Food_in_America.php
The winner is Outback’s cheese and bacon fries. I don’t eat meat or dairy anymore but I do remember that these fries were GOOD, just not good for you.

Japan, Seeking Trim Waists, Measures Millions: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/world/asia/13fat.html?em&ex=1213502400&en=c6f2623fbee96495&ei=5087%0A
Article discusses new waist limits in Japan for those between the ages of 40 and 74.

Sports

Celtics fully grasp urgency of Finals: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/ian_thomsen/06/13/lakers.collapse/index.html?eref=si_topstories

Griffey’s journey untainted: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/jack_wilkinson/06/09/griffey.600/index.html?eref=si_topstories
Ken Griffey Jr hit is 600^th homerun, the sixth Major League player to do so and the third “clean” player, according to the author.

Politics

Defeat is the Clintons’ new challenge: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/09/america/clinton.php

Hillary Clinton, Master Thespian: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/opinion/08dowd.html?scp=2&sq=women+and+politics&st=nyt
I’m glad that I’m not the only one that sees that HRC lost because she did not run a good campaign NOT because of sexism or because the country is not ready for a woman president.

Boys on the Bias: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/opinion/08whitman-1.html?scp=5&sq=women+and+politics&st=nyt
This short op-ed by former NJ Governor Whitman showed some of the best examples of sexism in the 2008 Presidential Nominee race.

Another Green World: My candidate wins the nomination for the Presidency: http://another-green-world.blogspot.com/2008/05/my-candidate-wins-nomination-for.html
Cynthia McKinney has gained more than 50% of the delegates in the Green Party’s nomination party. Looks like this really is a historic election season- The first Black man candidate, the First Black and Woman Candidate and the Oldest Candidate; though the middle situation is not official yet.

In California, a House Divided Stands Strong: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/us/politics/13split.html
A cute story highlighting the Governor of CA and his wife and also showing what occurs in mixed political party families.

World/Other

Europe looks at Putin with prudence and respect, and at Bush with indifference: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/09/europe/politicus.php

Looking to the future, Feminism Has to Focus: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/06/AR2008060603494.html?sid=ST2008060900950