August 2009
5 posts
The Women's Crusade →
“Women hold up half the sky,” in the words of a Chinese saying, yet that’s mostly an aspiration: in a large slice of the world, girls are uneducated and women marginalized, and it’s not an accident that those same countries are disproportionately mired in poverty and riven by fundamentalism and chaos.
A riveting NYTimes article with a few suggestions on how to focus our priorities on the plight...
Don and Betty's Paradise Lost →
givemesomethingtoread:
Entering its third season on a fresh wave of Emmy nominations, AMC’s Mad Men is the most stylish—and perhaps best—show on television. Inside its meticulous reconstruction of the precipice that was New York advertising circa 1960, where the men and women of Sterling Cooper smoke, drink, love, and lie, the author learns about the struggle of Mad Men creator (and former...
New York City restaurant inspections →
I prefer to be blissfully ignorant but someone else might appreciate this.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-2) →
Fall Out Boy (14)
The Format (4)
The All-American Rejects (1)
Quietdrive (1)
Coldplay (1)
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