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NEWS BRIEFLETS

* Accuracy in Media examines Gannongate, and finds that it’s a non-story. But he asked the President a soft question! And he’s gay!

* LGF ups the ante yet again: “Chimpy Cowboy Hitlerstein”.

* Cuba’s wonderful health system. Just as well everybody there is literate, so they can write terrific farewells to the earthly realm. (UPDATE: Fidel is angry. Don’t give yourself a heart attack, old man.)

* From Australia’s national archives:

Dated 13 March 1963, this note from an officer of the Trade Commissioner Service to his director outlines nine reasons why women should not be appointed trade commissioners. Possible drawbacks included:

* not being able to mix freely with businessmen
* the possibility of turning into a ‘battleaxe’
* having to run a household as well as holding down a job
* taking the place of a man

Miranda Devine has more on this old-timey memo, and related issues.

Posted by Tim B. on 03/17/2005 at 07:15 AM
  1. You can tell how much “Gannongate” is a non-story by the fact that Gary Trudeau is making a big thing of it in this week’s “Doonesbury” - Gary Trudeau:  your guide to the old and irrelevant.

    Posted by Brian Swisher on 2005 03 17 at 09:42 AM • permalink

  2. Softball-pitching gay conservatives are bad.  But scroll down to Elizabeth — Mystery Woman? ... apparently cross-dressing lefties are OK…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 03 17 at 10:53 AM • permalink

  3. The health coverage is indeed universal.  Mostly because the Cuban government didn’t blow the budget on, you know, a mop.

    Posted by Andrew on 2005 03 17 at 10:59 AM • permalink

  4. I was going to post 9 reasons why women should not be blog administrators, but decided that this would not be a real good idea.

    Posted by jlc on 2005 03 17 at 11:36 AM • permalink

  5. More interesting then an angry Fidel, or even a filthy rich Fidel (is anybody really surprised?) would be to see lefties defending him. It won’t be a surprise either after they defended Arafat, Saddam, Chiraq and Kofi, but hopefully it’ll push a few more left-leaning centrists away from the left.

    Posted by Guy on 2005 03 17 at 07:39 PM • permalink

  6. If you can’t seem to make headway in an argument with a woman, you can always fall back on menstruation, menopause or morals. If you can’t find enough innuendo to call them a slut, use frigid. If ugly is out of the question, no problem, it’s bimbo.

    I’m sure it isn’t a picnic being female and having a public opinion, as Devine says.

    Posted by Henry boy on 2005 03 17 at 07:42 PM • permalink

  7. "Chimpy Cowboy Hitlerstein”

    I’ve got to do something about that Charles Johnson.

    “I was going to post 9 reasons why women should not be blog administrators, but decided that this would not be a real good idea.”

    Good move, jlchydro.

    “If you can’t seem to make headway in an argument with a woman, you can always fall back on menstruation, menopause or morals. If you can’t find enough innuendo to call them a slut, use frigid. If ugly is out of the question, no problem, it’s bimbo.”

    Yeah, any one of those is guaranteed to drive me to tears. Of laughter, but, well, it’s tears, what else do you want?

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 03 17 at 09:15 PM • permalink

  8. Who let Andrea out of the Kitchen?

    Posted by Rob Read on 2005 03 18 at 07:14 AM • permalink

  9. I needed some more cyanide almond extract for your cake, dear.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 03 18 at 08:25 AM • permalink

  10. Possible drawbacks included:

    * not being able to mix freely with businessmen
    * the possibility of turning into a ‘battleaxe’
    * having to run a household as well as holding down a job
    * taking the place of a man

    I don’t think he was talking about all women in general.  Just Margo Kingston.

    Posted by wronwright on 2005 03 18 at 11:23 PM • permalink

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