"Should you get divorced in order to make your children better people?"

"What a good parent you are for asking, but, no, of course not: There are easier ways to get the benefits of being non-religious to you...

France provides free birth control to girls aged 15 to 18 — and bars doctors from notifying parents.

Amanda Marcotte approves: Straightforward, almost boring health care policy story about a government taking sensible, cost-effective measure...

"I suppose it could be a coincidence that lengthy breast-feeding and attachment parenting..."

"... that interferes heavily with maintaining a career came into style right as it became passé to pressure women to downplay their amb...

"Obama Punks the GOP on Contraception."

That's the spin from Slate's Amanda Marcotte (and I think she may have it right!): After two solid weeks of Republicans rapidly esc...

"Does Allen West hate women?... [T]he answer seems to be more that Allen West hates everyone."

Oh, boy. It's Amanda Marcotte responding Michelle Goldberg: That doesn't spare him from being a sexist, however, since his hatred fo...

"I think Beyonce is a great pop songwriter. Still, the lyrics to this song are classic faux empowerment..."

"... as she's literally suggesting women run the world by being very persuasive with our vaginas." Amanda Marcotte wrings her ...

Hey, I wrote the 11th Buzziest Blog Post of All Time.

Per Nerve. BTW: Amanda Marcotte is still buzzing about it. Without linking too, which causes the buzz to be underestimated. I'd probab...

It's not that I didn't see it. It's that I didn't see it.

It's hard being a feminist, you know. You know everything, and there are so many things you know, and then it's like you don't k...

"We will be looking for anti-racist trainings offered here in the Bay Area."

Oops. What a hilarious screw up! Not that we needed our comic relief of the day on a racial theme. (Via Instapundit and Protein Wisdom .)

"For me, 'I had an abortion' should be as morally loaded as 'I had a Pap smear.'"

Amanda Marcotte's morality: The underpinnings of the moral angst about abortion — the idea that a woman has no right to pry loose a flag...

Today's Mideast fashion news.

I'm looking at the front page of the NYT and glad to see the British hostages have been released, but can we talk about the clothes ? Th...

Nancy Pelosi covers her head and visits the head of John the Baptist.

So Nancy Pelosi is visiting Syria , and President Bush is calling it "unhelpful." There's plenty of political theater here. Th...

Amanda Marcotte, into the vortex.

Thought you'd like to know, since she got so famous and all, that Amanda Marcotte has a nutty tirade about me here: Ann Althouse is exa...

How the Edwards campaign blundered into hiring those bloggers.

Based on this Salon essay by Lindsay Beyerstein -- who declined their invitation to blog for them -- I'd say they were fooled by their ...

Marcotte blames sexism for her troubles.

Amanda Marcotte talks about why she had to leave the Edwards campaign. Summary: sexism! What I ... failed to understand was how much McEwan...

"I think this is the end of Edwards's campaign. He's through!"

So said Bill O'Reilly on his TV show last night, referring to the debacle over the two lefty bloggers the Edwards campaign hired, fired...

When a blogger goes to work for a candidate, she's bound to become boring.

Dan Drezner: [A]s much as I used to care about these intersections between the blogosphere and the real world, I can't get worked up abo...

When a blogger goes to work for a presidential candidate.

Two bloggers -- Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan -- get their dream job with a presidential candidate, causing his opponents to comb over...

My controversial etiquette tip.

These people are getting awfully excited about my wedding taste tips . This person too -- and I've got to give her credit for the phra...