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Thursday we bought tons of water, peanut butter, canned beans, tuna and fruit. And ice. Mom boiled a couple dozen eggs. This ain't our first rodeo, as we say here in Texas. My family lived through Hurricane Alicia in 1983, when I was just a kid. But Ike seems bigger and a bit scarier. Maybe because I'm older and know better...
Will critics of bias be satisfied? No. There's too much incentive to move the goalposts. Thus McCain surrogates took one case of gender bias--Palin's being asked if she could be both a VP and a mom--and extrapolated from it that questioning her experience must also be sexist. And they also blamed the media for a feeding frenzy over Bristol Palin's pregnancy, when in fact the story had emerged much like John Edwards' affair: mainstream media aired it after the principals volunteered it, pushed by rumors on blogs. It's easy to run against the media...
...Women Written and directed by Diane English; rated PG-13; out now There's not even one male in this update of a Clare Boothe Luce play. But the men aren't missed, what with all the dames who surround Meg Ryan's Mary Haines, the doing-it-all mom whose spouse is doing someone else. More authentic than the femme films of summer, if a little less...
Whatever, Martha! Fine Living Network; Tuesdays, 9 p.m. E.T. Alexis Stewart watches reruns of Martha Stewart Living with Jennifer Koppelman Hutt and cracks risqué jokes about her mom's short shorts. Does anyone need to see this besides a family therapist? Take the DIY approach: mix some margaritas and make fun of MSL yourself...
...wage work now, and the corporations who grow our food. But Palin's embrace of small-town values is where her hold on the national imagination begins. She embodies the most basic American myth - Jefferson's yeoman farmer, the fantasia of rural righteousness - updated in a crucial way: now Mom works too. Palin's story stands with one foot squarely in the nostalgia for small-town America and the other in the new middle-class reality. She brings home the bacon, raises the kids - with a significant assist from Mr. Mom - hunts moose and looks great in the process...