Blue Skirt: Shopping at the mall while Rome burns
November 16, 2007
A few days ago, on the Huffington Post, there was a side story that beckoned for attention. “Gisele Refuses to Strut Stuff for Depreciating Dollars,” blared the headline. Clicking on the story ultimately takes the reader to the Bloomberg News website, where the full story unfolds: super-ubermodel Gisele ...
Red Skirt: Monetary Models
November 16, 2007
For a time we had the phrase "buy your stocks where you buy your socks." Now I guess it's buy your stocks where you buy your frocks? Or something. I really do question BlueSkirt's taking as her financial guru Brazilian übermodel Gisele Bundchen, who supposedly wants to be paid in ...
Red Skirt: In League with liberals
October 15, 2007
I received an e-mail from a friend some time ago, commenting on this story about an upcoming League of Women Voters event, and I quote: "Bankoff was quick to point out that while the League of Women Voters never promotes or endorses particular candidates in races on either ...
Blue Skirt: What’s the meaning of 'fair and balanced'?
October 15, 2007
Red Skirt is venting considerable fury at (of all things) the League of Women Voters. What has her particularly vexed is that they are (a) promoting the issue of climate change, in particular that it is caused by our profligate non-renewable energy use; (b) they do not provide the other ...
Blue Skirt: What Do Women Want?
September 20, 2007
... Or Which Women Want What? Every once in a while I like to read the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal. I know I’m not likely to agree with most of what’s there, and I’m never disappointed. Nevertheless, it’s always well-written and thought-provoking. Sort of like the Fox ...
Red Skirt: Winning women in 2008
September 20, 2007
Blue Skirt focuses on Kimberley Strassel's recent WSJ article: "How the GOP Can Woo the Ladies." As Strassel points out, women amount to 60 percent of the Left's voters. More women vote, and more women vote Democrat. So the GOP always has its work cut out for it to ...
Red Skirt: No to 'Made in China'
August 28, 2007
First it was the mysterious death of pets from Chinese ingredients. Then poison in toothpaste. Lead on children's toys, now formaldehyde in children's clothing. All cultures are not equal. All countries are not the same. This matters. Economic freedom does not guarantee political freedom, but it's a start. China ...
Blue Skirt: Mutual interests possible key to China
August 28, 2007
Well, Red Skirt, I think you’ve done the nearly impossible. You have found a topic about which we are in nearly perfect agreement. I am no expert on China, and it’s unlikely I would have proffered a column first about the topic. But one would have had to be living ...
Blue Skirt: Minneapolis, we ALL have a problem
August 13, 2007
The age of Youtube and cellphone cameras has revolutionized our world. It has illuminated the hearts of politicians (witness former Sen. George Allen’s “macaca moment”), provided a stage for the antics of adorable babies, and given us free footage of our favorite musicians in moments we never would have otherwise ...
Red Skirt: Privatize system to free it from politics
August 13, 2007
Blue Skirt writes on the tragedy of the 35W bridge. I had said all I intended to say earlier but it was not to be. Sad to get into this political phase so soon, but I suppose it is predictable in this polarized atmosphere. I was with Blue Skirt ...
Red Skirt: The 9/11 Generation
July 25, 2007
They could have been as self-absorbed as many in their parents' generation. As they were growing up, there was Bill Clinton, making oral sex a household word, and junk e-mail porn on school computers. Teachers showed R-rated movies in class to babysit kids, while admonishing parents for letting them ...
Blue Skirt: Good children come from good parents
July 25, 2007
A central thesis of Red Skirt’s essay is, I think, that the ethos of liberalism, feminism, hedonism, feel-goodness, and other “bad” notions so prevalent in the boomer generation, has given way to a sense of responsibility and morality in the generation we have raised. Taking that argument to its logical ...
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