Last week, many in the D.C. elite were chattering about Ron Suskind's new book, Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President. While I'm not going to weigh in on the merits and demerits of the book as a whole -- too many people have done that already -- I was fascinated by a conversation it triggered about workplaces that are unfriendly, even mildly hostile, to women. Here's Politico's reporting on the quote that ricocheted around the Beltway:

Former communications director Anita Dunn is described by Suskind as feeling she worked in an overwhelmingly male environment at the White House.

Last week I wondered how Elizabeth Warren's rousing sermon espousing core progressive beliefs, which brought so much joy and hope to the left, would affect those on the right. One libertarian parody was posted by Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit.com. Here's how it starts:

There is no woman in this country who got hot on her own.... You got to the gym on roads paid for by the rest of us. You hired a plastic surgeon the rest of us paid to educate. You're safe from hotter, foreign women because of INS agents and boarder [sic] security the rest of us paid for. ...