violence against women

I know you can't actually read this timeline of "The Process" involved in President Hanlon's historic reform plan, but if you really care, you can click on it to enlarge.

• Pompous Blowhard of the Year Award: Bill O'Reilly• FOX "News" announces new spinoff: The FOX Benghazi™ Shopping Channel!• Crazyspeak of the Year nominee No. 11: DiGiorno PizzaIn Crackpot Utopia it was still the Year of Benghazi -- see No. 2.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell thought taking a second bite at the disciplinary apple could get him off the hook for bungling his original disciplining of wide receiver Ray Rice. A U.S. District Court Judge Barbara S.

Illustration by PJ Loughran for Philadelphia magazineby KenBeyond the fundamental creepiness of the behavior attributed to Bill Cosby by a growing number of women, there are a bunch of creepy aspects to the mess now swirling around the beloved comedian. Of all of them, perhaps the creepiest is that hardly any of it is news.

Joe and Frank Torre in 1977, kid brother's rookie managerial season, as player-manager of the New York Mets.

Study: Wisconsin Republicans fear and loathe women even more than other Republicans doToday is the twentieth anniversary of Joe Biden's Violence Against Women Act, signed by Presdient Clinton on September 13, 1994.

Janay and Ray Rice"Both the Ravens and the [NFL] said they had not reviewed the footage from inside the elevator prior to Monday. 'We requested from law enforcement any and all information about the incident, including the video from inside the elevator,' the NFL said in a statement early Monday.

Superintendent Bass is said to have said, "If you’re not comfortable with bending over, we might have a problem." She doesn't think she did anything inappropriate.by KenYou know how sometimes you wish you could ask someone in the news just one question? That's how I felt when I read this report by ThinkProgress's Igor Volsky (links onsite):

Primitive man developed some relatively sophisticated social mechanisms to enforce male dominance over primitive women. Patriarchal religion was the biggie, of course, but even before than, ritualized violence worked wonders in establishing who the boss was and who was subservient. Stoning, later embraced by patriarchal religions-- at least 'til Jesus came along with a forward-thinking perspective.In 1969 I went to Afghanistan for the first time. I recall writing back to my friends and family in America that it felt more like a journey in time than a journey in space.

Yesterday was International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. You might have seen it on Google. If so, that would probably be the end of the coverage you saw.