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Desperate For Housewives
It may be hard for working women to focus on their families, but New Yorker writer Caitlin Flanagan says they should channel their “inner house wife.” Flanagan talks to guest host Sree Sreenavasan about her new book “To Hell With All That”. Also: the White House staff reshuffle continues. Who will take over Scott McLellan’s job as White House press secretary?
They All Rolled Over And One Fell Out
Clarence Page, columnist for the Chicago Tribune
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Scott Johnson, an attorney and senior vice president of TCF National Bank in Minneapolis, fellow at the conservative Claremont Institute, and co-writer of the blog Powerline.com
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Sidney Blumenthal, former senior advisor to President Clinton, columnist for the Guardian and Salon.com, Senior Fellow at the NYU Center for Law and Security and author, The Clinton Wars (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003)
- how the White House is learning a new dance called the Staff Shuffle
» Powerline
» The Clinton Wars (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003)
You Got Compuserved
Dan Carnevale, the technology correspondent for The Chronicle of Higher Education
- on laptops in the classroom
» The Chronicle of Higher Education website
It's All Ova Now, Baby Blue
Caitlin Flanagan, staff writer for The New Yorker, contributing editor of The Atlantic Monthly and author, To Hell with All That : Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife (Little, Brown 2006)
- on the state of motherhood and the politics of parenting
» Caitlin Flanagan's bio (The Atlantic Monthly)
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The Rocky Road Ahead
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.- Comments [40]
Tweet If You Use Twitter
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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.
What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!- Comments [15]
Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
From Denmark with Love
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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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