My husband went to Hong Kong in February and took this picture of a local wearing an Obama t-shirt. (It’s taken a while to get it up here because of computer problems plaguing Sin City Siren HDQ.) The top story in the news while he was there was the economic stimulus package. (No. 2 story…
We only need three more states for the necessary majority (38 states) to ratify the federal Equal Rights Amendment. Nevada has the opportunity to be one of those three as legislation has been introduced. At the hearing last week the opposition came out hard and in numbers. But the history of the ERA in Nevada…
Las Vegas was a flagship city for the World Wildlife Federation’s global Earth Hour event on Saturday, March 28, a symbolic gesture representing the impact of our carbon footprint and the significance of small changes. Thoughts?
ERA ALERT! Nevada Women’s Lobby “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” Nevada: AJR3 – Ratifies proposed constitutional amendment relative to equal rights for men and women. The Equal Rights Amendment is back and Nevada can be one of three…
Well, kids, I’m heading to the Midwest for a few days to visit some family. Chicago, St. Louis and, yes, a farm in between. What can I say? In every life a little Midwest has to happen. I have no idea if I will even have access to the internet when I’m on the farm. …
Wanted to share this with the group: Las Vegas-On Thursday, March 26, 2009 from 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m., Nevada’s Students of Higher Education will be rallying at UNLV’s academic mall (in front of Beam Hall) in order to highlight student-centered research and education. There will be eight students speaking. Four of the eight students…
Wow! You really like bitterness. (For some reason this surprises me.) So I thought we could have another go at a Bitter Log today: 8 a.m.: Got four hours of sleep but have to get up because it’s another busy day. Curse “Morning People” who rule the world. Lack of Sleep Bitterness. 8:30 a.m.: Check…
A lot of you already know that I’m in the process of writing a book. I’m not good at explaining what it’s about but a generalization would be something akin to Eat, Pray, Love meets Basic Black. It’s a little bit memoir. It’s a little bit self-help (but in a very non-self-helpy way). In fact,…
This post is brought to you by my best friend Joshua Todd: Rick Warren devotee, 1950’s marriage counselor, and anti-feminist Martha Peace has some words of wisdom for all you gals out there. Don’t know about Martha Peace yet…well check out MotherJones.com. Among many suggestions — like praying for your husband because he must live…
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