Monday, February 13, 2012

Pot Meet Kettle: Bob McDonnell Criticized Santorum's Take On Women In Combat

Governor Bob McDonnell (Republican, if you couldn't guess), criticized Rick Santorum's view that female soldiers shouldn't be allowed on the front line of combat: 
I like Rick Santorum a lot, I just disagree with any inference he might have made that somehow women are incapable of serving in the front lines and serving in combat positions
Good old Bob, standing up for the equality of the genders.


Wait, what's that? You're telling me that good old Bob once said this in a college paper:
He criticized federal tax credits for child care expenditures because they encouraged women to enter the workforce.
"Further expenditures would be used to subsidize a dynamic new trend of working women and feminists that is ultimately detrimental to the family by entrenching status-quo of nonparental primary nurture of children," he wrote.
He went on to say feminism is among the "real enemies of the traditional family."
 
Lest you try to argue that this work was the result of some all-night undergrad bull session, McDonnell wrote this at the age of 34, while working on his doctorate, after he married and had two daughters.
 

Monday, February 6, 2012

Ouch: Esquire And GQ Both Publish Big Articles On Same Topic On The Same Dau

I cannot imagine how crappy it would feel to work on an article for months, traveling all across Ohio conducting an investigation - only to find that my magazine's chief rival sent a reporter to do the exactly same thing.
So now here is Esquire's report on the Zanesville, Ohio man who let his zoo full of animals free before killing himself, and here is the Gentleman's Quarterly take on the case.

Xenophobic And A Touch Racist Campaign Ad Of The Day

Rep. Pete Hoekstra (Republican-Michigan), is running for the Senate. This ad features what appears to be a Chinese woman in a Vietnamese rice paddy: