When gender is an open option in an editorial cartoon, the cartoonist will usually depict whoever in the cartoon is lazy, foolish, selfish, stupid, etc., as a man. Indianapolis Star editorial cartoonist Gary Varvel does this, both in his cartoon "Cell Phones" and above in "Voter Interest."
Yes, I'm sure male voters are just as likely...
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Background: From time to time I ponder why there is such a divide between the feminist movement and the men's and fathers' movement. I wish this divide didn't exist, or at least that it were smaller. Yet sometimes I read things which make me believe that the divide will never be breached. One example is...
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The National Organization for Women is holding its annual national
conference--"Fast Forward: Women Take Charge"--on July 13-15. One of NOW's main complaints is the alleged mistreatment of women in family court.
One of their presentations--conducted by Renee Beeker, President of Michigan NOW, and Vickie Masotti, is titled "Women Victimized in Family Courts: How to Make...
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A 51-year-old man fired 16 rounds from a semiautomatic handgun from a balcony overlooking the floor of the New York New York Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. The shooting left 4 people with non-life threatening injuries the were treated and released from a local hospital later that morning. Steven Zegrean was tackled...
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On the night of Thursday, Oct. 14, 1965, a young woman disappeared from a shopping mall in one of the better parts of Atlanta, Georgia. She has never been found although her disappearance was accompanied by a long trail of tantalizing and terrifying clues. A pleasant, friendly, 25-year-old with no known enemies, Mary Shotwell...
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An illegal immigrant is being sought in Tennessee for the rape of a 15-year-old girl, which he committed less than four hours after being released from jail. (He was released on bond at 9:44 p.m. and raped his victim shortly after midnight.) To make matters worse, he had been in the Maury County Jail...
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Vodafone McLaren-Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton won the pole position on his home soil at FIA Formula-1 2007 Santander British Grand Prix on the Silverstone Circuit at Silverstone, Northamptonshire, England. His teammate Fernando Alonso was in the lead for the first two qualifying sessions, but lost 0.150 seconds to Lewis and only 0.048 to Ferrari...
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At least 38 new cases of the H5N1 strain of bird flu have been found in wild birds in eastern Germany today. These discoveries, in conjunction with the fifth outbreak in France in seventeen months, have prompted both countries to raise the bird flu risk assessment level. German scientists discovered the outbreak after receiving...
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British Toshiba Transatlantic Challenge pilot, David Hempleman-Adams, successfully crossed the Atlantic and in doing so broke 5 world records. His helium gas balloon landed safely in the French countryside on Friday evening. The explorer is known for the grueling challenges he undertakes. Having created the “Adventurers’ Grand Slam” in which he visited both geographical...
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London is preparing for Le Grand Départ of the 2007 Tour de France. The route, which will run through the Greenwich Millennium Village, is being prepared for the Départ. The Tour de France will be in London and the South East for the two days of the 7th and 8th of July. The event...
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“An office worker for the US city of Detroit is suing for her colleagues to be banned from wearing perfume which gives her such severe headaches, nausea and coughing fits that she must leave work. Court documents showed Thursday that Susan McBride suffered so acutely from allergy to the chemicals in scents, lotions and...
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The New York Times this weekend is asking the burning question: Is America ready for a president with a trophy wife?
It would appear that Fred Thompson is close to smashing through a barrier — an “ass ceiling” if you will — that has yet to be broken in the over two century history of...
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As the chief deputy U.S. marshal explained to the interviewer, real-world fugitive apprehension has nothing in common with the movie version. Remember the big set piece in the movie The Fugitive (1993), when in a fiery crash in Illinois, Dr. Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford), wrongly convicted for his wife’s murder, escapes from the train...
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