Meghan McCain Concerned About Republican War on Women | Virginia State-Sponsored Rape Bill on Delay
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Global Middle Class
The Atlantic takes a look at The New Power of the Global Middle Class focusing initially on the BRICS — four distinct trillion-dollar plus economies in Brazil, Russia, India & China — while admitting that already Turkey should be considered the “silent T” in TBRICS.
George Mason University’s Jack Goldstone begs to differ, suggesting that TIMBIs be the new acronym — Turkey, India, Mexico, Brazil and Indonesia. Gone from Goldstone’s list are Russia and China due to Russia’s aging population and China’s, too.
Looking out four decades, you see what a small share of middle class consumption is America’s. Watching the deep American purple space shrink rapidly from 2000 to 2012 is a vivid example of America’s shrinking middle class in the last decade.
Race & Affirmative Action
In a 2003 Supreme Court decision, the majority wrote that their decision to allow public colleges and universities to consider race in admission decision could be expected to last 25 years. Today the Court sent a signal that it might end affirmative action ahead of schedule.
Supreme court justice Elena Kagan will recuse herself from the case, and it’s generally believed that the court’s five more-conservative justices may be prepared to end racial preferences in higher education.
A Supreme Court decision forbidding the use of race in admission at public universities would almost certainly mean that it would be barred at most private ones as well under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which forbids racial discrimination in programs that receive federal money. via New York Times
Fast Company
The Women of Twitter Vogue Magazine
Focusing on Twitter executives Katie Jacobs Stanton and Chloe Skadden, Vogue does a non-puff piece on the role of Twitter in global politics and the role of women in the Twitter organization.
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Virginia Abortion Laws Update
Over a thousand people — perhaps 1500 writes AP — conducted a silent protest in Richmond, Virginia yesterday.
The silent demonstration was over bills that would define embryos as humans and criminalize their destruction, require “transvaginal” ultrasounds of women seeking abortions, and cut state aid to poor women seeking abortions.
Again Facebook and social media were the organizing vehicles for the protest. Molly Vick of Richmond said it was her first ever protest. On her shirt Vick wore a sticker that said “Say No to State-Mandated Rape.” Below her beltline of her jeans was a strip of yellow tape that read “Private Property: Keep Out.”
The protest also came after Saturday Night Live brought the ultrasound bills into popular culture last weekend. Meghan McCain appeared tonight on Rachel Maddow and let me say that prolife Meghan is mad about the proposed Virginia laws. We’ll play the segment tomorrow, but Meghan — who also supports women’s right to contraception — does not want probes in her vagina without her permission.
Saying these laws are bad for women, this Republican daughter went on the record saying extremists in the Republican party are trying to roll back the clock for American women. Rachel asked Meghan if she would work with her this issue that affects alll American women and Meghan said “yes”. In 2011 Meghan wrote Shut Up About My Body Glenn Beck: Don’t Call Me Fat.
Lawmakers in Virginia delayed a final vote Tuesday, as Republican Governor Bob McDonnell, a Roman Catholic father of five, had the pen in his hand. At the end of the day, it wasn’t clear when the bill might come up for a vote again.
The Virginia law is openly being called state-sponsored rape. Were legislators surprised to have silent protests outside the capitol over the Republican War on Women? Apparently.
Speechless
Rep. Crowley (D-NY) delivers the best speech of the year, quoting facts and not uttering one damn word.
Sensuality News
Amber Heard | Ellen von Unwerth | Max Magazine February 2012
SN LIving
Valerie Van Der Graaf | Ellen von Unwerth | LoveCat #4 | ‘Heart Breaker’
Frida Gustavsson | Daniel Sannwald | Pop Spring 2012
Edie Campbell & Nyasha Matonhodze | Mario Testino | Allure March 2012
Alejandra, Eliza, Jacob, Marloes, Ryan & Sid Ellisdon | Ellen von Unwerth | River Island S/S 2012
Tereza Janakova | May Lin Le Goff | DEW Magazine Issue 4 | A Spring Burning
Karmen Pedaru | Mario Sorrenti | Vogue Paris March 2012 | ‘Nuit Blanche’
The LoveCat Kittens | Jacob Dekat | LoveCat #4 | Mew Mew Mew
Irina Kulikova | Regan Cameron | Allure March 2012 | ‘Thin Skinned’
SN Platinum Wide Screen
Jessiann Gravel | Pierre Dal Corso | Lovecat Magazine #4 NSFW
SN Provocateurs
Abby Brothers | Jason Lee Parry | Mirage Magazine #3 | Snake Eyes. French Fries.
Anne of Carversville
AOC Pivate Studio
Edita Vilkeviciute | Greg Kadel | Vogue Spain March 2012
Kati Nescher in Alexander McQueen | David Sims | Vogue Paris March 2012
Olivia Palermo | Christos Karantzolas | Schon! Magazine February 2012 | ‘American Rose’
Sophie Srej | Jean-François Lepage | All… Winter #9 2011 | ‘Drawing Restraint’
Joan, Daphne & Guinevere | Mario Sorrenti | W Mag March 2012 | ‘The Night Is Young’
AOC Style
Lara Stone | Mikael Jansson | Vogue Paris March 2012 | ‘Weekend a Rome’
Christy Turlington | Simon Upton | Harper’s Bazaar Singapore March 2012