[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- You Cannes Not Be Serious!
- The rumblings of dismay and dissatisfaction have coalesced and found a voice. Filmdirecting4women, an organization that supports women directors out of England has organized a petition: You Cannes Not Be Serious! to show our concerted pissedoffness about the lack of women in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
- Guest Post from London: Let’s Put Ageism on the Agenda by Elinor Block
- Shouts of “We can do it!” rang in the air last week as the Women in Film and Television (WFTV) event Enough of the Games… Let’s Put Ageism on the Agenda became like a women’s lib meeting. The event discussed the issue of ageism in the film and TV industry and debated the discrimination against women in the industry. [...]
In recent months statistics have emerged showing that between 2006 and 2009, 5,000 women have left the industry compared with 750 men.
But that’s not all. Skillset the organization that produced the above statistics also revealed that while more younger women than men enter the TV business, women over 50 are three times less likely to work in the industry.
- There is no Real America (Pandagon – Amanda Marcotte)
- Well, now they have a suspect in custody for the attempted Times Square bombing. As he’s a naturalized citizen from Pakistan, we can expect right wing bloggers to ratchet up the nonsense. Roy Edroso detailed what is perhaps the itchiest annoying trope—the pseudo-love of New York City that’s pouring from people who otherwise use the city as an example of a cesspool of liberalism. [...]
Wingnuts think of themselves as the True Patriots, the keepers of the flame of Americana, the people who really cherish this country sea to shining sea. But they don’t particularly like the urban areas. This presents a problem, since most nations are defined through their cities… Even the idealized images of small town America that entrance the wingnutteria were often invented and promulgated by creative types that live in the hated urban hellholes.
- TITF (Hullabaloo – Digby)
- [On what happened with the bank bailout...]
The ruling elites truly believed that the best way to bring back the economy was to ensure that jackasses like this weren't unduly inconvenienced, the thought being that even though they were the ones who caused the problems, we couldn't possibly do without them. I think this is an important corollary to Too Big To Fail <s>-</s> Too Important To Fire. TITF.
And it's utter nonsense. There may be institutions that have to be rescued lest they take down the whole country, but this myth of the indispensable John Galt is self-serving swill. There are three hundred million people in the country and these guys just aren't that special.
[...] he says reform is dangerous because it produces unintended consequences. One might worry a bit more about that if it weren't for the fact that without the reforms the consequences have already been so dire, unintended or otherwise. And indeed, the connection between economic incentives and economic behavior among the Wall Street titans couldn't be more obvious. There is no personal risk to any of them…
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