Eve Ensler, the award-winning author of The Vagina Monologues, was in the Democratic Republic of Congo when she saw Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” interview.
Author: Gloria Shur Bilchik
Gloria Shur Bilchik is a freelance writer and community volunteer in St. Louis, Missouri. She is the editor of Occasional Planet. She views the preservation of democratic values and progressive programs as vital to making the US a humane, livable place for her children and grandchildren.
Draining the Medicare pool
Insurance is all about risk. Medicare is an insurance program, and it works because it pools together everyone in the Medicare-eligible age group—whether they’re
Pollster asks: “If Todd Akin dropped out…”
As annoying as robo-pollsters can be, it’s often worth picking up the phone, answering the questions, and sticking with it until the end, because
Aw, shoot! I missed Glock Days again
On July 30, 2012, Catherine Murch shot her two children in her St. Louis-area home and then killed herself, using a 9 millimeter handgun
Whose plan destroys Medicare: Ryan’s or Obama’s?
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan claim that President Obama is destroying Medicare by “stealing $700 billion” from the program. That’s bunk, says Robert Reich.
DNC bails out of bailed-out Bank of America
The Democratic National Committee is moving its money. It’s taking its money out of the bailed-out Bank of America and putting it into union-owned
Pray anywhere? Read the fine print first
Recent polling shows that 82 percent of Missouri voters favor the so-called “Pray Anywhere” constitutional amendment on the August 7 [2012] ballot. Well, sure
Rollin’ on the [federally flood-controlled] river
If you want to travel by boat, or ship grain by barge on the Mississippi River, you’re going to encounter locks and dams. On
Retroactive Romney
Mitt Romney may or may not be a job creator, but he [or his campaign team] sure knows how to create a hot new
So, this is how pollsters get their information
They had me at caller ID. The screen said, “Opinionology ,” but it was the location that made me pick up for what was