Today's TRMS
On today's show David Bender, host of Politically Direct and Rachel's political guru, will be calling in from Netroots Nation in Austin, Texas to let us know what's happening at the left blog world's prom. And then Iraq expert Juan Cole stops by to talk about whether or not Bush has really agreed to a timetable for troop withdrawals in Iraq.
Good.
That's a good sign, that you've never heard "actress" and "heroine" used as pejoratively as used to be the case. It was awful, and ubiquitous. Female college students also used to be called "co-eds," and everyone knew what THAT meant.
"Women drivers!" is another one, although I must say that when biking past an elementary school that's minivanned up, I see my death. You could assign some blame to the children in the minivans, however.
A college friend once bought a game from the Salvation Army called "Career Girls." Only seven options were available, let's see if I can remember: Nurse, teacher, stewardess, model...
Wow, here's a link to that game:
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/08/18/career-girl-board-ga.html
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By Buxtehude_BarbarossaJuly 19, 2008 - 12:03pm