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  1. Breast-pumping breaks can get you fired

    8/27/09 8:09pm by RosieRed23
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    The Ohio Supreme Court ruled today that the company Totes/Isotoner was within its rights to fire a woman who was taking unscheduled breaks so she could pump her breasts. The court says it was not discrimination, and that the reason she took the breaks doesn't matter.  Read more >

  2. Sanford story, fallout sorely lack logic

    6/30/09 2:49pm by RosieRed23
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    The governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford, recently admitted to having an affair with a woman in Argentina. (Read all about it here.) *UPDATE: Today he admitted to "crossing the line" with other women as well, that there was "physical contact" but not sex. Read the AP story here. There's a couple facets to the story:  Read more >

  3. I have no idea what Burger King is trying to imply here

    6/28/09 8:33pm by RosieRed23
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    And I thought the BK King commercials were creepy! I can't ignore this one no matter how hard I try. (Thanks, Internet.) What's next, this sandwich becomes an "appendage" of the King? A pre-emptive argument for those who will say "yeah, but the ad got your attention! It did its job!" Sure. But it did nothing to make me want this sandwich or want to go to BK; in fact, it has done the opposite.  Read more >

  4. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, R.I.P.

    6/25/09 6:42pm by RosieRed23
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      In the middle of some big celebrity deaths -- Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson -- I want to take a minute and talk about the death of Dr. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald.  Read more >

RosieRed23

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RosieRed23
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Feminist liberal. Interested in news, politics, women's issues and much more. Lover of books, movies, music. Editor by profession, writer by night.
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