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Today we share the perspective of one professor about why she chose <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1408"><em>Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston</em></a> as a text for her students. <strong>Amy Bass, Ph.D.</strong>, is an Associate Professor of History at the College of New Rochelle and is the author of<em> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/B/bass_triumph.html">Not the Triumph but the Struggle: the 1968 Olympic Games and the Making of the Black Athlete</a></em> (University of Minnesota Press, 2002) and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://us.macmillan.com/inthegame"><em>In the Game: Race, Identity, and Sports in the 20th Century</em></a><em> </em>(MacMillan, 2005). </p></blockquote><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1408"><img height="188" border="0" width="125" alt="Cover of Shut Out by Howard Bryant" title="Shutout" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004im_/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/images/2008/09/12/shutout.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; float: right;"/></a> So here's my problem teaching cultural history: I am a devout and devoted, dedicated and dutiful, fan of the Boston Red Sox. </p> <p>There are many, many, many well known burdens in being a fan of Boston. Until recently, there was the whole "curse" thing. The year <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918">1918</a>, which could be mentioned for many historically important reasons (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/influenza/">the flu epidemic</a>, Exterminator's unlikely win at the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.kentuckyderby.com/2005/derby_history/derby_charts/years/1918.html">Kentucky Derby</a>, the creation of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=104">Wilson's Fourteen Points</a>, etc.), haunted Boston fans until 2004. I was one of them. I endured. </p> <p>But perhaps the greatest burden is when I come to the story of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.jackierobinson.com/">Jackie Robinson</a> on my syllabus. It's a topic I address not just when I'm teaching my upper-division seminar entitled "Race, Sport, and Society." I also talk about Robinson at length in my U.S. history survey, "Reconstruction to Present," using his minor and major league debuts, and Branch Rickey's push to make the Dodgers the team that would transform baseball's color line, to describe what was going on in early postwar America to spur on the major civil rights movements that emerge in the 1950s and 1960s. It's not sports history, I tell students; it's history. </p> <p>But then comes that question. That terrible, terrible question. That question that is part of my burden: which team was the <em>last </em>to integrate? </p> <p style="text-align: justify;">And here's where Howard Bryant and his wonderful <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1408"><em>Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston</em></a> come in. </p> <p>I used to answer that while the Red Sox were <em>technically </em>the last team to integrate, they had <em>tried</em> to integrate first by getting Robinson board, along with Marvin Williams and Sam Jethroe, as early as 1945. But then I read Bryant's tremendously readable book, and I realized that the word <em>tried</em> was really the wrong one. Bryant's startling telling of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://imamemberofredsoxnation.mlblogs.com/archives/2008/02/jackie_robinson.html">tryout </a>shut down my defense of Boston, and only heightened my understanding of why it wasn't until 1959 that the Red Sox became the last – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/oct/redsox/">yes the absolute last</a> – team to integrate, bringing up <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpsie_Green">Elijah "Pumpsie" Green</a> in 1959. By the time Green came on board, Robinson was retired, a fact that makes the "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2004/news/story?page=Curse041005">Curse of the Bambino</a>" seem like a story used, as so many are in American history, to overshadow the very real and devastating effects of racism. </p> <p>Howard Bryant's book isn't just about baseball. And it isn't just about sports. It's about history – American history – and should be read by anyone interested in it. </p><blockquote><p><em>If you are a professor and are interested in learning more about Beacon Press titles, visit the "For Educators" links on the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/">Beacon Press</a> website. If you have used a Beacon title in your course, Beacon Broadside would like to hear your story, either in the comments stream below or in an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/mailto:jbennett@beacon.org">email to the editor</a>. </em></p></blockquote><p> </p> </div> <script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/beaconbroadside?i=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beaconbroadside.com%2Fbroadside%2F2008%2F09%2Fprofessors-pers.html" type="text/javascript"></script> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 07:41 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/books/">Books</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/civil_rights/">Civil Rights</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/education/">Education</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/history/">History</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/race_and_society/">Race and Society</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/sports/">Sports</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/professors-pers.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/professors-pers.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/professors-pers.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/professors-pers.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/African-American%2BHistory" rel="tag">African-American History</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Baseball" rel="tag">Baseball</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Education" rel="tag">Education</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Race" rel="tag">Race</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Sports" rel="tag">Sports</a> </p>  </div> </div> <h2 class="date-header">September 10, 2008</h2> <div class="entry" id="entry-55410712"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/sarah-palin-no.html">Sarah Palin: No Friend to Children and Adults with Disabilities</a></h3> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&style=default&publisher=acdc0c2a-5de6-483b-9482-90c9bf5707e8&linkfg=%233c7937"></script> | <a class="iconsphere" title="Related Blogs & Articles" onclick="return Sphere.Widget.search()" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.sphere.com/search?q=sphereit:http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/sarah-palin-no.html">Sphere: Related Content</a> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <blockquote class="tagline"><p>Today's post is from <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.janebernstein.net/index.htm"><strong>Jane Bernstein</strong></a>, the author of five books, most recently <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/58fyf6zd9780252032530.html"><em>Rachel in the World</em></a>, a memoir of raising her developmentally disabled daughter. Her essay "Rachel at Work: Enclosed, a Mother's Report" was included in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1976"><em>I Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child With Special Needs</em></a>, edited by Suzanne Kamata.<em> </em>Bernstein is a professor of English and creative writing at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.cmu.edu/">Carnegie Mellon University</a> and lives in Pittsburgh, PA. </p></blockquote><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1976"><img height="196" border="0" width="125" alt="Kamata" title="Kamata" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004im_/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/images/2008/09/10/kamata.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; float: right;"/></a> As the mother of a young adult with mental retardation, nothing should make me happier than a candidate for vice president vowing that my daughter would at last have a "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jBnTwv5zwHprqcaX9lpeKgxf4M3QD932LS0O1">friend and advocate in the White House</a>." Instead, I find myself more concerned than ever about the fate of children and adults with disabilities. </p> <p>As most of us know by now, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/29/trig-paxson-van-palin-sar_n_122474.html?page=3&show_comment_id=15100709">Sarah Palin's fifth child has Down Syndrome</a>. When Palin learned through genetic testing that her unborn baby would likely "face special challenges," she confessed that she "initially felt sad" but now that he was four months old felt "truly blessed." </p> <p>Of course she loves her infant son. He's an adorable little boy. It's hard to find parents who don't love their newborns –- even when we learn that our babies have disabilities. While for most of us, the grief we feel after hearing that our babies are less than perfect doesn't abate as quickly as it did for Palin, it hardly matters, because when our tears dry, as eventually they do, what's left is love and commitment. </p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/sarah-palin-no.html#more">Continue reading "Sarah Palin: No Friend to Children and Adults with Disabilities" »</a> </p> <script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/beaconbroadside?i=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beaconbroadside.com%2Fbroadside%2F2008%2F09%2Fsarah-palin-no.html" type="text/javascript"></script> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 07:31 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/child_and_family_issues/">Child and Family Issues</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/health_and_medicine/">Health</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/mental_health/">Mental Health</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/politics/">Politics</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/sarah-palin-no.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/sarah-palin-no.html#comments">Comments (5)</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/sarah-palin-no.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/sarah-palin-no.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Disabilities" rel="tag">Disabilities</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Election%2B2008" rel="tag">Election 2008</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Family" rel="tag">Family</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Politics" rel="tag">Politics</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Sarah%2BPalin" rel="tag">Sarah Palin</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Special%2BNeeds" rel="tag">Special Needs</a> </p>  </div> </div> <h2 class="date-header">September 08, 2008</h2> <div class="entry" id="entry-55311682"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/how-obama-is-fr.html">How Obama is From Paradise</a></h3> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&style=default&publisher=acdc0c2a-5de6-483b-9482-90c9bf5707e8&linkfg=%233c7937"></script> | <a class="iconsphere" title="Related Blogs & Articles" onclick="return Sphere.Widget.search()" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.sphere.com/search?q=sphereit:http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/how-obama-is-fr.html">Sphere: Related Content</a> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <blockquote class="tagline"><p>Today's post is from <strong>Rita Nakashima Brock</strong>, co-author, with Rebecca Ann Parker, of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1972"><em>Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire</em></a>. Rev. Brock is Founding Co-Director of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.faithvoices.org/index.html">Faith Voices for the Common Good</a>, an organization dedicated to educating the public about the values and concerns of religious leaders and organizations. You can read more about <em>Saving Paradise</em> and see color plates of the art discussed in the book at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://savingparadise.net/">SavingParadise.net</a>.<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p></blockquote><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1972"><img height="187" border="0" width="125" alt="Savingparadise" title="Savingparadise" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004im_/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/images/2008/09/08/savingparadise.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; float: right;"/></a> For many, Barack Obama's birthplace, Hawaii, is the closest thing to paradise on earth. In fact, however, a perverted search for paradise led Western Europeans to conquer and colonize both North America and Hawaii. Unlike the colonizers of the last five hundred years, early Christians believed that the whole earth, including where they already lived, was the earthly paradise. They understood that empires and other powers sought to destroy it and that paradise was a place of struggle against those powers. They saw their responsibility as working to create just and loving communities wherever they lived. </p> <p>Hawaii has a long history of injustices and poverty, especially among native Hawaiians, but because it was remote from the mainland, it developed a different society that is more racially mixed. This history of Hawaiian interracial politics, though not perfect, has been far ahead of the U.S. mainline in equality of diverse races. It is a harbinger of how the rest of the United States will become in the second half of this new century, when there will be no racial majority and a lot of mixity. </p> <p>In Hawaii's mixed brown majority, Barack Obama's white mother was the minority person. He did not have the black minority experience of the mainland until he had already been immersed in a Hawaiian identity. He struggled to find an identity throughout his young adult life, of course. He does not, however, carry the burdens of suspicion of whites that affects so many of us raised on the mainland. His African father was from Kenya, and his ancestors were not subjected to slavery and segregation. </p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/how-obama-is-fr.html#more">Continue reading "How Obama is From Paradise" »</a> </p> <script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/beaconbroadside?i=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beaconbroadside.com%2Fbroadside%2F2008%2F09%2Fhow-obama-is-fr.html" type="text/javascript"></script> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 10:38 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/history/">History</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/politics/">Politics</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/religion/">Religion</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/how-obama-is-fr.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/how-obama-is-fr.html#comments">Comments (2)</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/how-obama-is-fr.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/how-obama-is-fr.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Art" rel="tag">Art</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Barack%2BObama" rel="tag">Barack Obama</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Christianity" rel="tag">Christianity</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Politics" rel="tag">Politics</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Religion" rel="tag">Religion</a> </p>  </div> </div> <h2 class="date-header">September 04, 2008</h2> <div class="entry" id="entry-55020410"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/a-decent-decisi.html">A Decent Decision, But Fleeting?</a></h3> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&style=default&publisher=acdc0c2a-5de6-483b-9482-90c9bf5707e8&linkfg=%233c7937"></script> | <a class="iconsphere" title="Related Blogs & Articles" onclick="return Sphere.Widget.search()" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.sphere.com/search?q=sphereit:http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/a-decent-decisi.html">Sphere: Related Content</a> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <blockquote class="tagline"><p>Today's post is from <strong>Frederick S. Lane</strong>, author of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1980"><em>The Court and the Cross: The Religious Right's Crusade to Reshape the Supreme Court</em></a>. Lane is an expert witness, lecturer, and author who has appeared on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=115928&title=frederick-lane"><em>The Daily Show with Jon Stewart</em></a>, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, the BBC, and MSNBC. His next book will be <em>People in Glass Houses: American Law, Technology, and the Right to Privacy</em> (Beacon 2009). For additional information, please visit <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.fredericklane.com/">www.FrederickLane.com</a>.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1980"><img height="193" border="0" width="125" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004im_/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/images/2008/07/17/lane.jpg" title="Lane" alt="Lane" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; float: right;"/></a>Four and a half years ago, during <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O_lVkK2usE">the halftime show for the 2004 Super Bowl</a>, Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson set off a heated national debate about televised decency when Timberlake pulled off part of Jackson's <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.howtodothings.com/fashion-and-personal-care/a4735-how-to-wear-a-bustier.html">bustier</a> and revealed her right breast. </p> <p>The global exposure of Jackson's breast was remarkably brief -- roughly half a second -- but more than long enough to send the nation's moral watchdogs into orbit. The following morning, Federal Communications Chairman Michael Powell (the son of former Secretary of State Colin Powell) made the rounds of the morning television talk shows and promised a swift and thorough governmental investigation. The Timberlake/Jackson "flash dance" proved to be a political boon for many in Washington: the controversy enabled Chairman Powell to divert attention from his failed and much-criticized efforts to promote media consolidation, and the FCC's new-found willingness to punish indecency was a boost for President Bush's re-election campaign. Much more detail on the political fall-out of the half-time show is available in the opening chapter of my 2006 book, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.fredericklane.com/index.php/fsl-books/the-decency-wars"><em>The Decency Wars: The Campaign to Cleanse American Culture</em></a> (Prometheus Books 2006). </p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/a-decent-decisi.html#more">Continue reading "A Decent Decision, But Fleeting?" »</a> </p> <script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/beaconbroadside?i=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beaconbroadside.com%2Fbroadside%2F2008%2F09%2Fa-decent-decisi.html" type="text/javascript"></script> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 09:47 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/entertainment/">Entertainment</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/free_speech/">Free Speech</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/judicial_branch/">Judicial Branch</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/media/">Media</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/a-decent-decisi.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/a-decent-decisi.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/a-decent-decisi.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/a-decent-decisi.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/CBS" rel="tag">CBS</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/FCC" rel="tag">FCC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Janet%2BJackson" rel="tag">Janet Jackson</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Justin%2BTimberlake" rel="tag">Justin Timberlake</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Super%2BBowl" rel="tag">Super Bowl</a> </p>  </div> </div> <h2 class="date-header">September 02, 2008</h2> <div class="entry" id="entry-55018256"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/link-roundup-rn.html">Link Roundup: RNC Protests, Women and Labor Day, Literary Peace Prize</a></h3> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&style=default&publisher=acdc0c2a-5de6-483b-9482-90c9bf5707e8&linkfg=%233c7937"></script> | <a class="iconsphere" title="Related Blogs & Articles" onclick="return Sphere.Widget.search()" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.sphere.com/search?q=sphereit:http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/link-roundup-rn.html">Sphere: Related Content</a> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p>Amy Goodman and two producers of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.democracynow.org/">Democracy Now!</a> (Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar) were arrested yesterday <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-dantoni/amy-goodman-violently-arr_b_123062.html">in St. Paul</a> while covering the Republican National Convention for the show. All three have been released, but the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjyvkR0bGQ">video of Goodman's arrest</a> and reports of the rough treatment of Kouddous and Salazar are disturbing. Goodman served as moderator of Beacon's <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/client/pentagonpapers.cfm">panel on the Pentagon Papers</a>, and she contributed to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1758"><em>Global Values 101: A Short Course</em></a> and the foreword to Jennifer Harbury's <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1785"><em>Truth, Torture and the American Way</em></a>. The SF Gate <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1726686865/bclid1342091429/bctid1768031771">spoke with Goodman</a> after her release. </p><p>Carole Joffe (who has posted at Beacon Broadside about <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/redefining-the.html">reproductive rights issues</a>) joins Gloria Feldt in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gloria-feldt-and-carole-joffee/on-labor-day-working-wome_b_122577.html">asking John McCain for some answers</a> on the role of women in the workplace, health care for children, and his change in position on abortion rights. </p><p>Obsessed with the polls? David Moore, author of<em> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=4232">The Opinion Makers: An Insider Exposes the Truth Behind the Polls</a></em>, reveals a truth that many pollsters downplay: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/2008/08/29/pollsters-schizophrenia-and-the-convention-bounce.html">most voters still haven't made up their minds</a> and won't until much closer to the election. </p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1997"><span style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline"><em>Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation</em></span></a> by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/06/god-and-man-at.html">Eboo Patel</a> is a finalist for the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2008-finalists.htm">2008 Dayton Literary Peace Prize</a>. Other finalists include <em>The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao</em> by Junot Díaz (Penguin), <em>The Ocean in the Closet</em> by Yuko Taniguchi (Coffee House Press), and <em>Song for Night</em> by Chris Abani (Akashic Press). Previous award winners include Elie Weisel, Studs Terkel, and Francine Prose. </p><p>Via <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.librarian.net/stax/2366/sarah-palin-vp-nominee/">Librarian.net</a>, as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, Sarah Palin apparently approached her town's library to find out <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1837918,00.html">how she could go about banning books</a>. </p><p>Linda Lenz, founder and publisher of Catalyst Chicago, an educational magazine, defends Barack Obama's association with <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/04/a-few-words-abo.html">Bill Ayers</a> by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/1136991,cst-edt-lenz30.article">defending Ayers' record as an education reformer</a>. </p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2014"><em>Student Loan Scam: <span style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline">The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History—and How We Can Fight Back</span></em></a> by Alan Michael Collinge will be released by Beacon this February. The <em>New York Times</em> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/business/24loans.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin">recently talked with Collinge</a>, the self-described "complaint box" for the student loan industry. </p><p>A man was <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://deadspin.com/5042588/so-yankee-stadium-takes-this-no-moving-during-god-bless-america+thing-rather-seriously">ejected from Yankee Stadium</a> for not showing adequate respect to Kate Smith and Irving Berlin. </p><p>A <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://savingparadise.net/">new website</a> for <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=6750"><em>Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire</em></a> is up and running, and includes beautiful color plates of images discussed in the book.</p> </div> <script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/beaconbroadside?i=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beaconbroadside.com%2Fbroadside%2F2008%2F09%2Flink-roundup-rn.html" type="text/javascript"></script> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 09:03 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/free_speech/">Free Speech</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/politics/">Politics</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/publishing/">Publishing</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/womens_rights/">Women's Rights</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/link-roundup-rn.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/link-roundup-rn.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/link-roundup-rn.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <h2 class="date-header">August 29, 2008</h2> <div class="entry" id="entry-54878032"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/my-soul-looks-b.html">My Soul Looks Back and Wonders</a></h3> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&style=default&publisher=acdc0c2a-5de6-483b-9482-90c9bf5707e8&linkfg=%233c7937"></script> | <a class="iconsphere" title="Related Blogs & Articles" onclick="return Sphere.Widget.search()" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.sphere.com/search?q=sphereit:http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/my-soul-looks-b.html">Sphere: Related Content</a> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <blockquote class="tagline"><p>Today's post is from <strong>Sherrilyn Ifill</strong>, author of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1882">On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century</a>. Ifill is a professor at the University of Maryland School of Law. She is also a civil rights lawyer and a regular speaker on race, public policy, and law. She blogs regularly at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.blackprof.com/">BlackProf.com</a>, where a version of this post originally appeared.<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p></blockquote><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1882"><img width="125" height="189" border="0" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004im_/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/images/2008/08/29/ifill.jpg" title="Ifill" alt="Ifill" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;"/></a> Sometimes, you just can't be cynical. Sometimes – even though you know that we still have a long way to go, that the work of achieving a racially just society is far from over, even though you don't subscribe to the messianic fervor that sometimes surrounds talk of about this presidential campaign – sometimes you just have to stop for a moment, and acknowledge the extraordinariness of this moment in American history. </p> <p>Sometimes, as the old spiritual goes, "my soul looks back and wonders, how I got over." And so I'm taking a moment to reflect on an event that I wished my father had lived to see. I've watched conventions since 1968. I consider myself politically savvy, intellectually gifted, skeptical and pragmatic. But when Michelle Obama and her daughters were standing up on that stage with fresh perms, looking like my sister and her daughters, and when Barack Obama was nominated to be the presidential candidate for the Democratic Party by acclamation Wednesday night, I got a little emotional. </p> <p>Unlike so many others, I'm not thinking so much about 1963 and King's "I Have a Dream" speech today. Instead, today I'm thinking about 1964. Forty-four years ago, the Democratic Party refused to seat that great voting rights activist, leader and former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer on the floor of the convention. </p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/my-soul-looks-b.html#more">Continue reading "My Soul Looks Back and Wonders" »</a> </p> <script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/beaconbroadside?i=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beaconbroadside.com%2Fbroadside%2F2008%2F08%2Fmy-soul-looks-b.html" type="text/javascript"></script> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 08:13 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/civil_rights/">Civil Rights</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/current_affairs/">Current Affairs</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/history/">History</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/politics/">Politics</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/race_and_society/">Race and Society</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/my-soul-looks-b.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/my-soul-looks-b.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/my-soul-looks-b.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/my-soul-looks-b.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/African-American%2BHistory" rel="tag">African-American History</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Barack%2BObama" rel="tag">Barack Obama</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Campaign%2B2008" rel="tag">Campaign 2008</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Civil%2BRights" rel="tag">Civil Rights</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Democratic%2BConvention" rel="tag">Democratic Convention</a> </p>  </div> </div> <h2 class="date-header">August 28, 2008</h2> <div class="entry" id="entry-53884946"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/dirty-porn-the.html">“Dirty” Porn: The Flip Side of Puritanism</a></h3> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&style=default&publisher=acdc0c2a-5de6-483b-9482-90c9bf5707e8&linkfg=%233c7937"></script> | <a class="iconsphere" title="Related Blogs & Articles" onclick="return Sphere.Widget.search()" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.sphere.com/search?q=sphereit:http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/dirty-porn-the.html">Sphere: Related Content</a> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <blockquote class="tagline"><p>Today's post, which we hope makes it through your spam filter, is from <strong>Carmine Sarracino</strong>, co-author of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2008"><em>The Porning of America: The Rise of Porn Culture, What It Means, and Where We Go from Here</em></a>.  Sarracino is a professor of English and the author of three books of poetry. He has also published widely on Walt Whitman and was twice a Fulbright Scholar. </p></blockquote><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2008"><img width="125" height="193" border="0" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004im_/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/images/2008/08/28/prningofamerica.jpg" title="Prningofamerica" alt="Prningofamerica" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; float: right;"/></a> I spent the better part of academic year 1989-90 in Kathmandu, Nepal, on a Fulbright research grant. My project was to explore connections between the poetry of Walt Whitman and ancient Vedic literature, especially on the topic of consciousness. I also agreed to supervise the doctoral dissertations of several students at Tribhuvan University, one of which was entitled, "Walt Whitman as a Tantrika Yogi." </p> <p>Fascinating. </p> <p>I knew little about tantra, which was then just beginning its faddish popularity in the United States, but I felt okay about supervising the dissertation. After all, Whitman's sexuality—his own personal sexuality as well as his views of human sexuality—was so enormous and complexly layered a subject as to invite a myriad of approaches— the more unconventional the better. And I was in the perfect spot to learn about tantra, since many scholars regard Nepal as its historical home. So, working on the dissertation should be interesting. </p> <p>Indeed, I came to see Whitman in a revealing new light. But beyond that, what I learned about tantra was often on my mind fifteen years later when my co-author, Kevin Scott, and I began work on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2008"><em>The Porning of America</em></a>. As we studied definitions of pornography, distinctions between porn and erotica, and so on, it became clear that porn in America has its roots in Puritanism. And that tantra provided an example of a completely different—and much healthier—orientation toward sexuality. The porn websites we surfed could have been written by characters right out of Hawthorne. Sex is "filthy," "nasty," "dirty." The women are "sluts," and "whores." Puritanism and porn share the same view of the human body and sexuality. The only difference is that porn transgressively revels in what the Puritans righteously ran away from. </p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/dirty-porn-the.html#more">Continue reading "“Dirty” Porn: The Flip Side of Puritanism" »</a> </p> <script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/beaconbroadside?i=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beaconbroadside.com%2Fbroadside%2F2008%2F08%2Fdirty-porn-the.html" type="text/javascript"></script> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 09:24 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/religion/">Religion</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/sexuality/">Sexuality</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/dirty-porn-the.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/dirty-porn-the.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/dirty-porn-the.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/dirty-porn-the.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Pornography" rel="tag">Pornography</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Sexuality" rel="tag">Sexuality</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Tantra" rel="tag">Tantra</a> </p>  </div> </div> <h2 class="date-header">August 27, 2008</h2> <div class="entry" id="entry-53628438"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/nancy-mairs-how.html">Nancy Mairs: How I Became a Treasure</a></h3> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&style=default&publisher=acdc0c2a-5de6-483b-9482-90c9bf5707e8&linkfg=%233c7937"></script> | <a class="iconsphere" title="Related Blogs & Articles" onclick="return Sphere.Widget.search()" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.sphere.com/search?q=sphereit:http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/nancy-mairs-how.html">Sphere: Related Content</a> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <blockquote class="tagline"><p><strong>Nancy Mairs</strong> is a poet and essayist whose work includes <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2029"><em>A Dynamic God: Living an Unconventional Catholic Faith</em></a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1634"><em>Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled</em></a>, and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1628"><em>Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal</em></a>. She recently received the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.movingwaters.org/alt_awards_2008.html">2008 Arizona Literary Treasure Award</a>, which prompted this essay. She lives in Tucson with her husband, George. </p></blockquote><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2029"><img width="125" height="195" border="0" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004im_/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/images/2008/08/26/dynamicgod.jpg" title="Dynamicgod" alt="Dynamicgod" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;"/></a> "It is my pleasure to tell you," the letter began, "that the Arizona Humanities Council will be awarding you the 2008 Arizona Literary Treasure Award this year." After a second reading, I decided that this was not a form letter (for all I knew there could be a whole chest of treasures out there) or a hoax. Although the name might sound a little silly ("Gee, it sounds like you should be dead," a friend remarked), I was delighted to have my work singled out for such recognition. I took years to call myself a writer—it sounded so pretentious—and then more years to stop thinking of myself as a Boston poet and start identifying myself as a southwestern writer, and now the Southwest has embraced me. This is not a trajectory I could ever have conceived 35 years ago when I arrived, husband and two little children in tow, to spend a couple of years earning an MFA in creative writing at the University of Arizona. I can no longer recall the visions and ambitions of that young woman. One of the features of getting old, I find, is that I look back time after time and ask myself how the heck I got here. </p> <p>I am most commonly asked, when I speak with writing students, "How do I get published?" and the only answer I can come up with is, "Beats me." I'm not being facetious with this less than helpful response. But when I look back, I see my writing life as a series of (mostly happy) accidents. I was 40 when my first full-length book was published, and that was by happenstance. The Western States Book Award had just been founded, and Jim Hepworth, the director of what became Confluence Press, asked if he could enter a collection of my essays. I wasn't yet thinking in terms of a book, but I'd written ten essays by this time, which I happily gave to Jim and, since there wasn't any entry fee, I asked whether he would submit a manuscript of my poetry as well. Politely, though unenthusiastically, he agreed. </p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/nancy-mairs-how.html#more">Continue reading "Nancy Mairs: How I Became a Treasure" »</a> </p> <script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/beaconbroadside?i=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beaconbroadside.com%2Fbroadside%2F2008%2F08%2Fnancy-mairs-how.html" type="text/javascript"></script> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 09:35 AM </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/nancy-mairs-how.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/nancy-mairs-how.html#comments">Comments (2)</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/nancy-mairs-how.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <h2 class="date-header">August 26, 2008</h2> <div class="entry" id="entry-54702198"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/michael-phelps.html">Michael Phelps Just Said “No” to ADHD Drugs</a></h3> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&style=default&publisher=acdc0c2a-5de6-483b-9482-90c9bf5707e8&linkfg=%233c7937"></script> | <a class="iconsphere" title="Related Blogs & Articles" onclick="return Sphere.Widget.search()" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.sphere.com/search?q=sphereit:http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/michael-phelps.html">Sphere: Related Content</a> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <blockquote class="tagline"><p>Today's post is from <strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.chrismercogliano.com/">Chris Mercogliano</a></strong>, author of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1835"><em>In Defense of Childhood: Protecting Kids' Inner Wildness</em></a>. He has been a teacher at the Albany Free School since 1973 and co-director since 1985. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, and he is also the author of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.chrismercogliano.com/making.htm"><em>Making It Up As We Go Along</em></a>, and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1538"><em>Teaching the Restless: One School's Remarkable No-Ritalin Approach to Helping Children Learn and Succeed</em></a>. </p></blockquote><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1538"><img width="125" height="203" border="0" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004im_/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/images/2008/08/26/restless.jpg" title="Restless" alt="Restless" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; float: right;"/></a> Michael Phelps didn't need drugs to 'fly into Olympic history. And at the tender age of 11 he decided he didn't need them to negotiate his way through school. </p> <p>Growing up in what by several accounts was an authoritarian household—<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/The-mystery-of-Michael-Phelps-missing-father?urn=oly,102215">his father was a state trooper</a> and in an interview in the<em> New York Times</em> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/sports/olympics/10Rparent.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin">his mother describes herself as "stern"</a>—Michael was diagnosed ADHD at age 9. His parents' on- again, off-again relationship had finally ended in divorce two years earlier, and his teachers had been complaining since kindergarten that he was restless, talkative, and easily distracted in class. These, of course, are all classic "symptoms" of a supposedly genetic neurochemical imbalance in the brain, and so a pediatrician suggested to Michael's mom that she put <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/08/11/some-parenting-lessons-from-michael-phelps-s-mom.aspx">him on Ritalin</a>. </p> <p>According to Mrs. Phelps, Ritalin marginally improved her son's school performance and dulled him into peacefully doing the minimum on his nightly homework assignments. But he felt stigmatized by having to go to the nurse's office at lunchtime to swallow a pill every day, and after two years Michael pleaded to be taken off the drug. "I don't want to do this anymore, Mom. My buddies don't do it. I can do this on my own." Fortunately for Michael, his mother believed in him deeply and so she listened. </p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/michael-phelps.html#more">Continue reading "Michael Phelps Just Said “No” to ADHD Drugs" »</a> </p> <script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/beaconbroadside?i=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beaconbroadside.com%2Fbroadside%2F2008%2F08%2Fmichael-phelps.html" type="text/javascript"></script> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 07:22 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/child_and_family_issues/">Child and Family Issues</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/health_and_medicine/">Health</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/medicine/">Medicine</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/mental_health/">Mental Health</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/sports/">Sports</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/michael-phelps.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/michael-phelps.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/michael-phelps.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/michael-phelps.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/ADHD" rel="tag">ADHD</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Concerta" rel="tag">Concerta</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Debbie%2BPhelps" rel="tag">Debbie Phelps</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Family" rel="tag">Family</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Michael%2BPhelps" rel="tag">Michael Phelps</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Olympics" rel="tag">Olympics</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Ritalin" rel="tag">Ritalin</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Swimming" rel="tag">Swimming</a> </p>  </div> </div> <h2 class="date-header">August 22, 2008</h2> <div class="entry" id="entry-54558362"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/quotable-link-r.html">Quotable Link Roundup: Obama, Reverse Graffiti, Climate Change</a></h3> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&style=default&publisher=acdc0c2a-5de6-483b-9482-90c9bf5707e8&linkfg=%233c7937"></script> | <a class="iconsphere" title="Related Blogs & Articles" onclick="return Sphere.Widget.search()" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.sphere.com/search?q=sphereit:http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/quotable-link-r.html">Sphere: Related Content</a> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p>"To understand military sexual assault, let alone know how to stop it, we must focus on the perpetrators." Helen Benedict on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3848/why_soldiers_rape/">why soldiers rape</a>. </p><p>"To us sofa slouchers, these teen Olympians are heroes. But they have the nation's pediatricians on edge." A <em>Baltimore Sun</em> op-ed by Mark Hyman about <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-opedbodies0818,0,5103979.story">young athletes</a>. Also check out Hyman answering questions about <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.wickedlocal.com/northborough/archive/x1806340491/Dustin-Watson-Sports-and-your-child">how to be a good sports parent</a>. </p><p>"I awoke still weeping, my first real tears for him - and for me, his jailor, his judge, his son." Kelley Bulkeley, author of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=7734"><em>American Dreamers</em></a>, analyzes <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/08/17/INCU12BG4G.DTL">the dreams of Barack Obama</a>. </p><p>"[T]he artist's weapons are cleaning materials and … the enemy is the elements: wind, rain, pollution and decay." The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/35-greatest-works-of-reverse-graffiti/1949">Environmental Graffiti blog</a>, in a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/35-greatest-works-of-reverse-graffiti/1949">convergence of title and topic</a>. </p><p>"They're being asked now to tighten their belts, and there simply aren't any notches left, so that I think what we're going to see is people going into a huge amount of debt." Nan Mooney, author of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1991"><em>Not Keeping Up With Our Parents</em></a>, on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/july-dec08/troubledmiddle_08-15.html">NewsHour</a> (available in transcript, audio or video). </p><p>"At the nation's extreme western edge, sitting over 2500 miles from the U.S. mainland, Kauians are as vulnerable to high food and energy costs as a people can be." At the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://slowfoodnation.org/blog/">Slow Food Nation blog</a>, Mark Winne highlights the special challenges faced by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://slowfoodnation.org/blog/2008/08/20/americas-first-and-last-food-bank/">a Hawaiian food bank</a>. </p><p style="text-align: justify">"There's historical truth, which I don't discount at all, and there is, co-existing with it, a deeper truth about what it is to be a person and what it is to live your life in alignment with the sacred." Danya Ruttenberg, author of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1992"><em>Surprised by God</em></a>, at the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://jessicaleejernigan.typepad.com/jessica_lee_jernigan/2008/08/another-feminis.html">Cultural Criticism and Beauty Tips blog</a>. </p><p style="text-align: justify"><strong>Related Beacon Broadside posts:</strong> </p><p style="text-align: justify">Helen Benedict on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2007/11/female-vets-fig.html">female veterans</a>. </p><p style="text-align: justify">Mark Hyman talking about <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/the-summer-game.html">Debbie Phelps</a>, mother of Michael Phelps, the greatest Olympian in history. </p><p style="text-align: justify">Kelly Bulkeley telling Americans to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/01/losing-sleep.html">get more sleep</a>, and dissecting dreams of the presidential candidates (posts <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/03/dreaming-of-bar.html">one</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/04/unravelling-mea.html">two</a>). </p><p style="text-align: justify">Nan Mooney discussing how <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/05/economic-inequa.html">economic equality is hurting the middle class</a>. </p><p style="text-align: justify">Mark Winne about <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/06/high-food-price.html">high food prices</a> and the <a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/08/21/artkrieger_2.jpg"><img width="149" height="112" border="0" alt="Artkrieger_2" title="Artkrieger_2" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004im_/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/images/2008/08/21/artkrieger_2.jpg" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;"/></a> The online teaser was intriguing: '"Human monsters" a reality.' Having lived through the first few years of the 21st century, I wholeheartedly agreed. But when I <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/08/11/sexchange.athlete/index.html">clicked on the link</a>, I discovered that it led not to a story about current political figures, but to a CNN article about an '80s Olympic athlete who was unknowingly given steroids by her coaches in order to enhance her performance. </p> <p>East German shot putter Heidi Krieger thought she was taking vitamins, but later discovered, as her body began to masculinize, that she was being given the anabolic steroid Oral-Turinabol, a drug that, according to the article, "changed a woman into a man." As Krieger continued on the steroids, she noted changes not only in her physical appearance, but also in her feelings. </p> <p>"I felt much more attracted to women and just felt like a man. But I knew I was not (a) lesbian," Krieger told CNN. </p> <p>Good thinking, because lesbians don't feel like men. But I digress. </p> <p>In 1997, Krieger had a "sex-change operation" and became Andreas Krieger. Details of this particular "operation" were not made public, and I would like to know more, because I find it fascinating that there is one magical "sex-change operation" that will do the trick. But I digress. Krieger is now married and runs an army surplus store. He says he does not want to be seen as a victim, but he presents himself as quite unhappy with his situation and with the circumstances surrounding his "sex-change operation."</p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/transsexuals-ar.html#more">Continue reading "Transsexuals Are Not “Human Monsters”" »</a> </p> <script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/beaconbroadside?i=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beaconbroadside.com%2Fbroadside%2F2008%2F08%2Ftranssexuals-ar.html" type="text/javascript"></script> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 09:08 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/gender/">Gender</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/health_and_medicine/">Health</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/lgbt/">LGBT</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/medicine/">Medicine</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/sexuality/">Sexuality</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/sports/">Sports</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/the_media/">The Media</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/transsexuals-ar.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/transsexuals-ar.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/transsexuals-ar.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/transsexuals-ar.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Doping" rel="tag">Doping</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/LGBT" rel="tag">LGBT</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Olympics" rel="tag">Olympics</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Sports" rel="tag">Sports</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Steroids" rel="tag">Steroids</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Transgender" rel="tag">Transgender</a> </p>  </div> </div> <h2 class="date-header">August 19, 2008</h2> <div class="entry" id="entry-54409506"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/crossing-border.html">Crossing Borders, Expanding Equality, and Seeking Justice</a></h3> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&style=default&publisher=acdc0c2a-5de6-483b-9482-90c9bf5707e8&linkfg=%233c7937"></script> | <a class="iconsphere" title="Related Blogs & Articles" onclick="return Sphere.Widget.search()" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.sphere.com/search?q=sphereit:http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/crossing-border.html">Sphere: Related Content</a> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <blockquote class="tagline"><p>Today's post is from <strong>Patricia A. Gozemba</strong>, co-author (with Karen Kahn and Marilyn Humphries) of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1850"><em>Courting Equality: A Documentary History of America's First legal Same-Sex Marriages</em> </a>(Beacon Press, 2007). You can read more at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.courtingequality.com/">www.courtingequality.com</a> </p></blockquote><p>Equality is a core value in Massachusetts. More than two weeks have passed since our Massachusetts borders fell to the further expansion of equality. When Governor Deval Patrick signed the repeal of the<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/07/29/mass_house_votes_to_let_out_of_state_gays_marry/"> 1913 law that prohibited out-of-state same-sex couples from coming to our state to marry</a>, our state borders became more permeable and we are glad of it. At the July 31, 2008, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.baywindows.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3=&id=78312">signing ceremony</a>, Patrick said, "the repeal will confirm a simple truth: that is, in Massachusetts, equal means equal." </p> <p>In 2003, Massachusetts' <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.glad.org/marriage/Goodridge/goodridge_background.shtml"><em>Goodridge v DPH</em></a> decision, gave hope to same-sex couples just as in 1948 California with <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.freedomtomarry.org/get_informed/marriage_basics/history/perez_v_sharp.php"><em>Perez v. Sharp</em></a> gave hope to interracial couples. Two court decisions, equally visionary. Most recently, California, a state now often associated with border worries, showed the way on marriage equality with <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/05/california-the.html">a sweeping court decision</a> on May 15, 2008, that welcomed all same-sex couples to marry there regardless of their residence. No question this bold expansion of civil rights cleared the way for Massachusetts to move ahead in this worrisome presidential election year and match California's commitment to democracy. Bi-coastal equality on the march. </p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/crossing-border.html#more">Continue reading "Crossing Borders, Expanding Equality, and Seeking Justice" »</a> </p> <script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/beaconbroadside?i=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beaconbroadside.com%2Fbroadside%2F2008%2F08%2Fcrossing-border.html" type="text/javascript"></script> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 11:06 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/child_and_family_issues/">Child and Family Issues</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/civil_rights/">Civil Rights</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/lgbt/">LGBT</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/race_and_society/">Race and Society</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/crossing-border.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/crossing-border.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/crossing-border.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/crossing-border.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Deval%2BPatrick" rel="tag">Deval Patrick</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Gay%2BMarriage" rel="tag">Gay Marriage</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/LGBT" rel="tag">LGBT</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Massachusetts" rel="tag">Massachusetts</a> </p>  </div> </div> <h2 class="date-header">August 08, 2008</h2> <div class="entry" id="entry-53942600"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/condolences.html">Condolences</a></h3> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&style=default&publisher=acdc0c2a-5de6-483b-9482-90c9bf5707e8&linkfg=%233c7937"></script> | <a class="iconsphere" title="Related Blogs & Articles" onclick="return Sphere.Widget.search()" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.sphere.com/search?q=sphereit:http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/condolences.html">Sphere: Related Content</a> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p>Just as I was about to head out the door, I received this email from Maxine Giammo, a publicist here at Beacon:</p> <p>"Reading today’s lovely <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://creativeconstruction.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/breakfast-with-suzanne/">interview with Suzanne Kamata over at the blog “Creative Construction”</a>, I realized that some of us at Beacon may not be aware of the recent loss experienced by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1976"><em>Love You to Pieces</em></a> contributor, Vicki Forman, whose son Evan passed away unexpectedly in late July. </p> <p>Vicki’s essay on Evan’s premature birth, “Coming to Samsara,” is the first selection in <em>Love You to Pieces</em>. Vicki has been an enthusiastic promoter of the book, most recently speaking about it at the BlogHer conference in July. </p> <p>You can read more of Vicki’s beautiful writing about Evan on her blog: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.vickiforman.com/">http://www.vickiforman.com/</a>. The outpouring of support online has been phenomenal and Beacon joins in extending our deepest sympathies to Vicki and her family."</p> </div> <script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/beaconbroadside?i=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beaconbroadside.com%2Fbroadside%2F2008%2F08%2Fcondolences.html" type="text/javascript"></script> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 12:46 PM </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/condolences.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/condolences.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/condolences.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-53939770"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/link-roundup-ch.html">Link Roundup: Christian Patriarchy, Climate Change, Fiction for a Better World</a></h3> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&style=default&publisher=acdc0c2a-5de6-483b-9482-90c9bf5707e8&linkfg=%233c7937"></script> | <a class="iconsphere" title="Related Blogs & Articles" onclick="return Sphere.Widget.search()" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.sphere.com/search?q=sphereit:http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/link-roundup-ch.html">Sphere: Related Content</a> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p>Beacon Broadside will be on vacation next week, which is to say that the editor of Beacon Broadside will be on vacation. While I will miss you all, I'll leave you with some reading to keep you busy. </p> <p><strong>This Week's Beacon Broadside posts: </strong></p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/the-summer-game.html">The Summer Games: Raising an Olympian</a> <br/>Mark Hyman on why Debbie Phelps, mother of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, is a great mom. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/digging-the-d-1.html">Digging the Dig</a> <br/>John Hanson Mitchell gives the Big Dig some love. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/redefining-the.html">Redefining the Pill: Bush Administration Calls Contraception "Abortion"</a><br/>Carole Joffe on recent actions taken by the Bush Administration that would define all contraception as abortion.  </p> <p><strong>Good Reading Elsewhere:</strong> </p> <p>Kathryn Joyce, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.sextelevision.net/archives/episodeArchivesDisplay.asp?segmentID=601&seasonID=10">on the Canadian show SexTV</a>, talks about Quiverfull, a growing sect in the Christian patriarchy movement that is the subject of her <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2007">forthcoming book</a>. The excerpt of the show also features a woman who was excommunicated from her church for divorcing her husband. </p> <p>Fred Pearce explains why <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.newscientist.com/blog/environment/2008/07/whats-bad-for-world-trade-is-bad-for.html">trade talks should be important to climate change activists</a>. </p> <p>Jeremy Adam Smith at Daddy Dialectic <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://daddy-dialectic.blogspot.com/2008/08/earlier-this-week-i-was-sitting-with.html">discusses race with his four-year-old son</a>. </p> <p>Jennifer Nix calls for a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/683/steinbeck_hemon_and_our_progre/">Progressive Literary Zeitgeist</a>. </p> <p>On his <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://inheritingthetrade.com/blog/?p=152">Inheriting the Trade blog</a>, Thomas DeWolf says <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://inheritingthetrade.com/blog/?p=152">good-bye to departing Beacon publicist Leah Riviere</a>. She will be sorely missed by everyone here at Beacon Press, as will departing managing editor Lisa Sacks. Warmest wishes to both of them! </p> <p>Beacon Broadside will be back in action Tuesday, August 19<sup>th</sup>. See you then!</p> </div> <script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/beaconbroadside?i=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beaconbroadside.com%2Fbroadside%2F2008%2F08%2Flink-roundup-ch.html" type="text/javascript"></script> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 11:34 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/publishing/">Publishing</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/race_and_society/">Race and Society</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/religion/">Religion</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/reproductive_rights/">Reproductive Rights</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/womens_rights/">Women's Rights</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/link-roundup-ch.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/link-roundup-ch.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/link-roundup-ch.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry" id="entry-53930082"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/the-summer-game.html">The Summer Games: Raising an Olympian</a></h3> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&style=default&publisher=acdc0c2a-5de6-483b-9482-90c9bf5707e8&linkfg=%233c7937"></script> | <a class="iconsphere" title="Related Blogs & Articles" onclick="return Sphere.Widget.search()" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.sphere.com/search?q=sphereit:http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/the-summer-game.html">Sphere: Related Content</a> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <blockquote class="tagline"><p>The opening ceremonies are upon us and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.markhyman.com/"><strong>Mark Hyman</strong></a> shares with us today a story of the parent of one of the many Olympians representing the U.S. in this summer's games. Hyman is contributing editor for sports business at BusinessWeek, and writes frequently about the business of sports, sports and law, and about the role of adults in youth sports. His book on the impact of parents, coaches and other adults on youth sports, <em>Until It Hurts</em>, will be published by Beacon Press in April 2009. Hyman's writing may be seen most often in <em>BusinessWeek</em> and <em>Sports Business Journal</em>, and has also appeared in <em>Sports Illustrated</em>, <em>TV Guide</em>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.inc.com/magazine/20031201/howididit.html"><em>Inc.</em></a>, <em>Best Life</em>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.parents.com/fun/games-printables/sports/taking-the-pressure-out-of-sports/"><em>Child Magazine</em></a>, the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>, the <em>New York Times</em>, and National Public Radio's "Morning Edition." </p></blockquote> <p>Not that long ago, I spent some time in the principal's office – about 45 minutes in a hardback chair, if I recall correctly. </p> <p>I've been thinking about that visit and about the principal of Windsor Mill Middle School outside Baltimore, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.swimnetwork.com/videos/v/20080517/debbie_phelps_on_being_a_swim_parent-11971.html">Debbie Phelps</a>. Debbie will be in Beijing for the next two weeks for the Summer Olympics, which begin Friday. Her 23-year-old son, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.michaelphelps.com/">Michael</a>, will be there too. Michael is the iconic American swimmer of whom much is expected by U.S. sports fans. He will be the favorite in every race he enters during the Summer Games. A record <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-08-04-phelps-aims-for-eight-gold-at-olympics">eight gold medals</a> is a possibility. Fewer than six for Phelps would be a stinging disappointment. It's a good thing Michael Phelps has the broadest shoulders on the planet. He'll need them to carry those outsized expectations. </p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/the-summer-game.html#more">Continue reading "The Summer Games: Raising an Olympian" »</a> </p> <script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/beaconbroadside?i=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beaconbroadside.com%2Fbroadside%2F2008%2F08%2Fthe-summer-game.html" type="text/javascript"></script> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 08:14 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/child_and_family_issues/">Child and Family Issues</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/sports/">Sports</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/the-summer-game.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/the-summer-game.html#comments">Comments (1)</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/the-summer-game.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/the-summer-game.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/2008%2BOlympics" rel="tag">2008 Olympics</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Beijing%2BOlympics" rel="tag">Beijing Olympics</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Children" rel="tag">Children</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Family" rel="tag">Family</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Michael%2BPhelps" rel="tag">Michael Phelps</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Olympics" rel="tag">Olympics</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Sports" rel="tag">Sports</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Summer%2BOlympics" rel="tag">Summer Olympics</a> </p>  </div> </div> <h2 class="date-header">August 07, 2008</h2> <div class="entry" id="entry-53893888"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/digging-the-d-1.html">Digging the Dig</a></h3> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&style=default&publisher=acdc0c2a-5de6-483b-9482-90c9bf5707e8&linkfg=%233c7937"></script> | <a class="iconsphere" title="Related Blogs & Articles" onclick="return Sphere.Widget.search()" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.sphere.com/search?q=sphereit:http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/digging-the-d-1.html">Sphere: Related Content</a> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <blockquote class="tagline"><p>Mention the Big Dig to anyone from the Boston metro area, and you're sure to get a response. The decades-long project to move Boston's highway traffic (the Central Artery) underground has been much maligned and dissected in the local media. Today's post, from <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.johnhansonmitchell.com/"><strong>John Hanson Mitchell</strong></a>, gives an overview of Boston's problematic relationship with vehicular traffic and reminds us of why the Big Dig is a boon to the city. Mitchell is the author of numerous books, including <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1973"><em>The Paradise of All These Parts: A Natural History of Boston</em></a>, and editor of the award-winning magazine <em>Sanctuary,</em> published by the Massachusetts Audubon Society. </p></blockquote> <div style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left; font-style: italic;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellypuffs/2572178881/"><img width="175" height="233" border="0" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004im_/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/images/2008/08/07/greenway.jpg" title="Greenway" alt="Greenway"/><br/><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Photo by Kellypuffs (via Flickr)</span></a></div> <p>In spite of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/07/17/big_digs_red_ink_engulfs_state/">skyrocketing budget overruns</a>, delayed construction, floods, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www3.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BO56834/">ceiling collapses</a>, and all the other ills that big construction projects are prone to, the Big Dig is far better than what used to be there. A short walk along the Rose Kennedy Greenway on a weekend after noon in summer is a case in point -- families picnicking, flowers blooming, grass growing, and children sporting under the classical Italianate water spouts. </p> <p>It's been a while since the Central Artery came down, newcomers to the city may not even remember it, but in my mind, that THING, that veritable Berlin Wall, was the symbol of all that went wrong in this city back in the dark hours of the 1940s and 1950s when auto-crazed urban planners began to construct what they called without a hint of irony, "the New Boston." </p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/digging-the-d-1.html#more">Continue reading "Digging the Dig" »</a> </p> <script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/beaconbroadside?i=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beaconbroadside.com%2Fbroadside%2F2008%2F08%2Fdigging-the-d-1.html" type="text/javascript"></script> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 11:23 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/boston/">Boston</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/nature_the_environment/">Environment</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/history/">History</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/digging-the-d-1.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/digging-the-d-1.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/digging-the-d-1.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/digging-the-d-1.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Automobiles" rel="tag">Automobiles</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Big%2BDig" rel="tag">Big Dig</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Boston" rel="tag">Boston</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Urban%2BPlanning" rel="tag">Urban Planning</a> </p>  </div> </div> <h2 class="date-header">August 05, 2008</h2> <div class="entry" id="entry-53777494"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/redefining-the.html">Redefining the Pill: Bush Administration Calls Contraception “Abortion”</a></h3> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&style=default&publisher=acdc0c2a-5de6-483b-9482-90c9bf5707e8&linkfg=%233c7937"></script> | <a class="iconsphere" title="Related Blogs & Articles" onclick="return Sphere.Widget.search()" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.sphere.com/search?q=sphereit:http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/redefining-the.html">Sphere: Related Content</a> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <blockquote class="tagline"><p>Today's blog post is from <strong>Carole Joffe</strong>, author of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1469"><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><em>Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to provide Abortion before and after Roe v Wade</em></span></a> (Beacon Press, 1996) and a professor of sociology at the University of California, Davis.  She is currently at work on a book about contemporary abortion provision. </p></blockquote><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1469"><img width="125" height="186" border="0" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004im_/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/images/2008/08/05/joffee.jpg" title="Joffee" alt="Joffee" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; float: right;"/></a> Fans of Jewish folklore are familiar with tales from the town of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_humor">Chelm, the legendary center of foolishness</a>. Chelm's citizens unfailingly choose actions guaranteed to achieve the opposite of what was desired. The children need more milk? Buy a billy goat! The synagogue needs a new roof? Build a new floor! There has been much about the eight long years of the George W. Bush presidency that has made one think s/he was living in Chelm (remember how we were told the U.S. invasion of Iraq would be greeted by Iraqis bearing flowers and sweets?). Now, in the waning days of this presidency comes a move that would no doubt earn special respect from the people of Chelm because of its tortured logic. Draft regulations now circulating in the Department of Health and Human Services would <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/washington/15rule.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin">redefine many forms of contraception (including most birth control pills) as "abortions."</a> </p> <p>So an administration that has done everything in its power to oppose abortion–making sure its appointments to the Supreme Court and other key positions are reliably anti-abortion, signing a bill banning a rarely used but sometimes medically necessary abortion procedure and so on–now goes after the main thing that can prevent unwanted pregnancies? In true Chelm-like fashion, this Administration is proposing a policy that virtually assures there will be more abortions. </p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/redefining-the.html#more">Continue reading "Redefining the Pill: Bush Administration Calls Contraception “Abortion”" »</a> </p> <script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/beaconbroadside?i=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beaconbroadside.com%2Fbroadside%2F2008%2F08%2Fredefining-the.html" type="text/javascript"></script> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 07:43 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/health_and_medicine/">Health</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/politics/">Politics</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/reproductive_rights/">Reproductive Rights</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/womens_rights/">Women's Rights</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/redefining-the.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/redefining-the.html#comments">Comments (2)</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/redefining-the.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/redefining-the.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Abortion" rel="tag">Abortion</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Barack%2BObama" rel="tag">Barack Obama</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/George%2BBush" rel="tag">George Bush</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/John%2BMcCain" rel="tag">John McCain</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Pro-Choice" rel="tag">Pro-Choice</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Women's%2BRights" rel="tag">Women's Rights</a> </p>  </div> </div> <h2 class="date-header">July 30, 2008</h2> <div class="entry" id="entry-53177878"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/07/dissenting-a-vi.html">Dissenting: A View from the 1930s</a></h3> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&style=default&publisher=acdc0c2a-5de6-483b-9482-90c9bf5707e8&linkfg=%233c7937"></script> | <a class="iconsphere" title="Related Blogs & Articles" onclick="return Sphere.Widget.search()" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.sphere.com/search?q=sphereit:http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/07/dissenting-a-vi.html">Sphere: Related Content</a> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <blockquote class="tagline"><p>Today's post is from <strong>Mark Tushnet</strong>, author of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1978"><em>I Dissent: Great Opposing Opinions in Landmark Supreme Court Cases</em></a>. Tushnet is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Previously a professor of law at Georgetown University and University of Wisconsin, Tushnet is the author of numerous books, including <em>A Court Divided: The Rehnquist Court and the Future of Constitutional Law.</em> </p></blockquote><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1978"><img width="125" height="193" border="0" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004im_/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/images/2008/07/01/tushnet.jpg" title="Tushnet" alt="Tushnet" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; float: right;"/></a>I've been doing some research on the Supreme Court during the 1930s, and have run across some interesting comments from Justice Harlan Fiske Stone on dissenting. Stone was a progressive Republican appointed to the Court by Calvin Coolidge. He served as an Associate Justice under Chief Justices William Howard Taft and then Charles Evans Hughes, before Franklin Roosevelt appointed him Chief Justice in 1941. </p><p>During the 1920s, Taft ruled the Court with a firm hand, and strongly discouraged dissents. And, even after Hughes took over, it was common for a justice to dissent with a simple notation: "Agreeing with the court below, I dissent," or the like. As the 1930s went on, though, the number and length of dissents increased. </p><p>The reason, pretty clearly, was that liberal and progressive dissenters were increasingly dismayed at what they saw as the majority's radical conservatism. Yet, that explains <em>dissenting</em> but not really writing long dissents. And Stone, in private correspondence, fumbled around for explanations for his practice. </p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/07/dissenting-a-vi.html#more">Continue reading "Dissenting: A View from the 1930s" »</a> </p> <script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/beaconbroadside?i=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beaconbroadside.com%2Fbroadside%2F2008%2F07%2Fdissenting-a-vi.html" type="text/javascript"></script> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 10:21 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/judicial_branch/">Judicial Branch</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/07/dissenting-a-vi.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/07/dissenting-a-vi.html#comments">Comments (2)</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/07/dissenting-a-vi.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/07/dissenting-a-vi.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/SCOTUS" rel="tag">SCOTUS</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://technorati.com/tag/Supreme%2BCourt" rel="tag">Supreme Court</a> </p>  </div> </div> <h2 class="date-header">July 29, 2008</h2> <div class="entry" id="entry-53433726"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/07/tragic-shooting.html">Tragic Shooting at Knoxville Church</a></h3> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004js_/http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&style=default&publisher=acdc0c2a-5de6-483b-9482-90c9bf5707e8&linkfg=%233c7937"></script> | <a class="iconsphere" title="Related Blogs & Articles" onclick="return Sphere.Widget.search()" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.sphere.com/search?q=sphereit:http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/07/tragic-shooting.html">Sphere: Related Content</a> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p>Everyone here at Beacon Press is deeply saddened by the deadly shooting last Sunday at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, in which two people were killed and seven others injured. Police reports indicate that the shooter targeted the church for its "liberal leanings." </p> <p>We extend our deepest condolences to the families and friends of the victims, to the congregation and to the Knoxville community. The Unitarian Universalist Association has created <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.uua.org/news/newssubmissions/117156.shtml">this page</a> to provide updates. 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Kai has previously contributed to Beacon Broadside on gay teens and James Baldwin. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2016">David Moore</a> deconstructs some <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-moore/the-ireali-problem-with-t_b_114037.html">sloppy <em>NYTimes</em> poll analysis</a> on Obama and the racial divide at the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/"><em>Huffington Post</em></a>. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/06/high-food-price.html">Mark Winne</a> continues his blogging at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.slowfoodnation.org/blog/2008/07/22/small-potatoes-big-rewards/">Slow Food Nation</a>, discussing a program in Bellingham, WA, where <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.slowfoodnation.org/blog/2008/07/22/small-potatoes-big-rewards/">volunteers harvest surplus produce</a> to help stock the local food banks. The <em>Nashville City Paper</em> had <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/news.php?viewStory=61478">this review</a> of Winne's <em>Closing the Food Gap</em> last week. </p> <p>At the <em>Boston Globe</em>, Howard Zinn reminds John McCain and Barack Obama that "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2008/07/17/memo_to_obama_mccain_no_one_wins_in_a_war/">no one wins in a war</a>." Also at the <em>Globe</em>, a new <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles_of_faith/">religion blog</a> from Michael Paulson. (Thanks, Michael, for the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/paulson/blog/2008/07/welcome_uus.html">link to our post from Forrest Church</a>.) </p> <p>University of Wisconsin math prof Jordan Ellenberg, at his blog, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/in-which-john-tierney-annoys-me-women-in-science-edition/">Quomodocumque</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/in-which-john-tierney-annoys-me-women-in-science-edition/">challenges</a> John Tierney's <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/science/15tier.html?ref=science">dismissal of the gender gap</a> in the sciences. Maybe Tierney, who seems to think that "women on average just aren't as interested as men are in these disciplines," should read about <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/03/against-all-odd.html">Maria Mitchell</a>. </p><blockquote><p>We missed this when it originally posted, but just after Independence Day the <em>LA Times</em> had <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-beliefs5-2008jul05,0,7730914.story">this article</a> on the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1678">Jefferson Bible</a>: </p></blockquote><blockquote><p>The big question now, said Lori Anne Ferrell, a professor of early modern history and literature at Claremont Graduate University, is this:<br/>"Can you imagine the reaction if word got out that a president of the United States cut out Bible passages with scissors, glued them onto paper and said, 'I only believe these parts?' " </p></blockquote><p>And in the department of "Wow, I feel old," the naked baby on the cover of Nirvana's <em>Nevermind</em> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92833535">is now 17</a>. 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/archives.html">Archives</a></h2> <div class="module-content"> <ul class="module-list"> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/09/index.html">September 2008</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/08/index.html">August 2008</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/07/index.html">July 2008</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/06/index.html">June 2008</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/05/index.html">May 2008</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/04/index.html">April 2008</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/03/index.html">March 2008</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/02/index.html">February 2008</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/01/index.html">January 2008</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2007/12/index.html">December 2007</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="module-typelist module"> <h2 class="module-header">Blogs by Beacon Authors</h2> <div class="module-content"> <ul class="module-list"> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-ostertag">Bob Ostertag on the Huffington Post</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/user/carole-joffe">Carole Joffe at RHRealityCheck</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="The author of From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America. " href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://chrisfinan.vox.com/">Chris Finan on free speech</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://danyaruttenberg.net/category/blog/">Danya Ruttenberg</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://skepticalpollster.com/">David Moore's Skeptical Pollster</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/Bridging-Differences/">Deborah Meier at Education Week</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://ndrtoon.livejournal.com/">Dylan Edwards</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/profile/ejgraff">E. J. Graff at TPM Cafe</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/eboo_patel/">Eboo Patel at WaPo/Newsweek</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.newscientist.com/blog/environment/labels/freds-footprint.html">Fred Pearce at New Scientist</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.areyoumymothers2.blogspot.com/">Harlyn Aizley's Are You My Mothers? blog </a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://howardzinn.org/default/">Howard Zinn's website</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://jamarnicholas.blogspot.com/">Jamar Nicholas</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://daddy-dialectic.blogspot.com/">Jeremy Adam Smith's Daddy Dialectic</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://kateclinton.com/communikate/blog.html">Kate Clinton</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.kevinjennings.com/blog/">Kevin Jennings</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://greenfertility.blogspot.com/">Marie Myung-Ok Lee</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://marilyns.nexcess.net/blog/">Marilyn Sewell</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://youthsportsparents.blogspot.com/">Mark Hyman's Youth Sports Parents blog</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.markwinne.com/">Mark Winne</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.myspace.com/michaelpatrickmacdonald">Michael Patrick MacDonald on Myspace</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://beyondstraightandgaymarriage.blogspot.com/">Nancy Polikoff's Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage blog</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="The authors of Courting Equality posting on issues of interest to supporters of gay civil rights." href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.courtingequality.com/blog/">Pat Gozemba and Karen Kahn- Courting Equality blog</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.alternet.org/authors/8447/">Penny Coleman on Alternet</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="Website for the Shalom Center, a project of Rabbi Waskow, co-author of The Tent of Abraham: Stories of Hope and Peace for Jews, Christians, and Muslims" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.shalomctr.org/">Rabbi Arthur Waskow at the Shalom Center</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="Author of Getting On Message: Challenging the Christian Right from the Heart of the Gospel" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.progressivechristiansuniting.org/">Rev. Peter Laarman at Progressive Christians Uniting</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.revrose.com/">Rev. Rosemary Bray McNatt</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.sashaabramsky.com/">Sasha Abramsky</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="Author of On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century. One of several contributors to BlackProf.com, a blog about race, culture, and society." href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.blackprof.com/">Sherrilyn Ifill at Blackprof.com</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="Author of Big Box Swindle." href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.newrules.org/retail/index.php">Stacy Mitchell at The Hometown Advantage</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.stephenpuleo.com/">Stephen Puleo</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://blogs.courant.com/susan_campbell/">Susan Campbell at the Hartford Courant</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://gaijinmama.wordpress.com/">Suzanne Kamata</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://inheritingthetrade.com/blog/">Thomas Norman DeWolf</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://inthefray.org/">Victor Tan Chen's In the Fray</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="First Amendment advocate and author of Free for All: Defending Liberty in America Today" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://thephoenix.com/TheFreeForAll/">Wendy Kaminer on The Free For All</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="Author of Fugitive Days, A Kind and Just Parent, The Power of Their Ideas, Teaching Toward Freedom" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://billayers.wordpress.com/">William Ayers on education, politics, and more</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="module-typelist module"> <h2 class="module-header">Blogs on Books and Literature</h2> <div class="module-content"> <ul class="module-list"> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://weta.org/authorauthor/">Author Author</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.rakesprogress.com/bgb/">Black Garterbelt</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.bookslut.com/">Blog of a Bookslut</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://bookdwarf.com/">Bookdwarf.com</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://bookstorepeople.com/">Bookstore People</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://chekhovsmistress.com/">Chekhov's Mistress</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/">Critical Mass</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.edrants.com/">Edward Champion's Return of the Reluctant</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat">Galley Cat</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.lailalalami.com/blog/">Laila Lalami</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog">Largehearted Boy</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.maudnewton.com/">Maud Newton</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://newpagesblog.blogspot.com/">New Pages</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/">Papercuts @ NYTimes</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.readysteadybook.com/">Ready Steady Book</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.slushpile.net/">SlushPile</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://somanybooksblog.com/">So Many Books</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://scalzi.com/whatever/">Whatever</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="module-typelist module"> <h2 class="module-header">Other Publishers' Blogs</h2> <div class="module-content"> <ul class="module-list"> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.aaupnet.org/booksforunderstanding.html">AAUP Books For Understanding</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://cupblog.org/">Columbia University Press</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.dukeupress.typepad.com/">Duke University Press</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.fsgpoetry.com/">Farrar, Straus and Giroux</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://harvardpress.typepad.com/">Harvard University Press</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/">Illinois Press</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://iupress.typepad.com/blog/">Indiana University Press</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://lsupress.typepad.com/lsu_press_blog/">LSU Press</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://mitpress.typepad.com/mitpresslog/">MIT Press Log</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="The blog of Oxford University Press USA" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://blog.oup.com/">Oxford University Press</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://pressblog.uchicago.edu/">The Chicago Blog</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://ucpress.typepad.com/ucpresslog/">University of California Press</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://ugapress.blogspot.com/">University of Georgia Press</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.nebraskapress.typepad.com/">University of Nebraska Press</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://uncpressblog.com/">University of North Carolina Press</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://yalepress.typepad.com/yalepresslog/">Yale University Press</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004/http://www.blogged.com/directory/society"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080913054004im_/http://www.blogged.com/icons/vn_jessicab8_1453182.gif" border="0" alt="Society Blog Directory" title="Society Blog Directory"/></a> </div> </div> <div id="footer"> <p>© 2007 <a 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