by Deborah Quinn | Mar 15, 2011 | Education, NaBloPoMo, Politics
There was a great chart in Sunday’s New York Times that listed the problems facing various Pentagon building projects: boats with aluminum superstructures that will burn like kleenex if they’re bombed; big ships that would be sitting ducks to flying...
by Deborah Quinn | Mar 5, 2011 | Education, Feminism, Politics
Wisconsin’s Governor Walker claims that “we can no longer live in a society where the public employees are the haves and the taxpayers who foot the bills are the have-nots.” Congressman Pence from New Jersey thinks that there are two kinds of rape:...
by Deborah Quinn | Feb 27, 2011 | Feminism, NYC, Politics
Along time ago, the late 1980s, to be exact, I went with my college friends to Washington DC. We’d graduated a few years earlier, from college in Boston, and weren’t roommates any more, but we gathered at S.’s house for a mini-reunion weekend just...