A German drug company is poised to start marketing a drug for women with a low libido — or rather, those who suffer from “female sexual disfunction” or “hypoactive sexual desire.” Not surprisingly, this has spawned a debate. The effort has set off a debate over what constitutes a normal range of sexual desire among […]
Monica Potts
Monica Potts is a former senior writer at The American Prospect. She is working on a book about low-income women in her rural Arkansas hometown. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, New York, Vogue.com, The Daily Beast, The Trace, and Democracy.
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A Daily Oil Spill.
After the BP spill started in the Gulf, it was easy to quickly determine how bad it was in the context of American history but not as easy to place it on a scale that measured environmental disasters around the world. A couple of weeks ago executives were just convicted in India in the Bhopal […]
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Cops Can Punch People, Even Women.
Via Jezebel, the above is a video of a police office punching a woman in the face. According to the news report, the officer was trying to arrest a woman who was jaywalking, and the jaywalker’s friend, also a woman, came over, intervened, and pushed the cop away. (Jezebel‘s post left out the push that […]
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Accidental Shootings.
Julianne Hing at RaceWire is covering the trial of former Bay Area Transit cop Johannes Mehserle, who is accused of shooting Oscar Grant last New Year’s Day. The shooting occurred while Grant was already restrained, face-down on the floor, and with another cop’s knee in his back. A clear cell phone video of it was […]
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New Estimates in the Gulf.
Yesterday, I wrote that even when he gives the best speeches, I’m not sure President Obama is able to assuage the slow-burning terror we all feel at what probably amounts to a loss of the Gulf of Mexico as we know it. The news we woke up to today shows part of the reason for […]
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New Guidelines, Old Ways.
Today, the nutritionists who help determine our national guidelines recommend lowering the daily recommended allowances for sugar, salt, and fat. As everyone knows — or should know — by now, too much of those things are bad for your health, and Americans overindulge. But the last bit is hardly news. NPR: And ready for this […]
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This is Why We Can’t Stop the Oil.
Our leaders are having inane arguments over contingency plans. Rep. Rep. Ed Markey grilled ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson on why all of the companies included walruses in their oil-spill response plans despite the fact that walruses don’t live there. Tillerson began to describe how the plan is made up of several studies before cutting to […]
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Wal-Mart’s Online Education Ploy.
A couple of weeks ago, Wal-Mart announced that it was partnering with a for-profit online university to allow its employees to enroll in management courses. It got a price reduction and employees will be able to use their on-the-job training and tasks to earn some credits. One of the reasons Wal-Mart started the program is […]
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Calculating BP’s Liability
Litigation following the oil spill will likely be as unprecedented as the disaster itself.
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Women on Sunday Talk Shows.
After Politico noted that only 13.5 percent of talk show guests are women, Jezebel analyzes why so few make the talk-show rounds. The author notes that there are many fewer women in positions of power; with only 17 percent of seats in Congress are occupied by women, there just aren’t a lot of them to […]
