I do most of my writing at the Iowa progressive community blog Bleeding Heartland.
Last year at this time I was scrambling to make as many phone calls and knock on as many doors as I could before the Iowa caucuses on January 3.
This week I had a little more time to reflect on the year that just ended.
After the jump I've linked to Bleeding Heartland highlights in 2008. Most of the links relate to Iowa politics, but some also covered issues or strategy of national importance.
I only linked to a few posts about the presidential race. I'll do a review of Bleeding Heartland's 2008 presidential election coverage later this month.
At Talk Left I saw a reference to the Gender Analyzer, which uses artificial intelligence to "determine if a homepage is written by a man or a woman." You enter the address, and in an instant it scans the text, giving you a prediction. When I checked my blog home, Bleeding Heartland, I got this:
This is great! Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton recorded a webcast last night where they discuss the issues that really matter to women (hint, it's not lipstick):
Who said it was a glass ceiling? In the Vatican, women's rights is more like a concrete ceiling.
The Vatican announced Thursday in a general decree that it will excommunicate anyone who would attempt to ordain a woman as a priest and the woman herself.
I don't want this to sound like I am archiac though I know it will to some. I am still of the baby boomer generation though many may choose not to recall that 'we've come a long way baby'. Yet, after reading this article in today's Charlotte Observer, I wonder if we really have come as far as we think.
Who said it was a glass ceiling? In the Vatican, women's rights is more like a concrete ceiling.
