Last week's British election was important as much for what didn't happen as for what did. The opposition Conservative Party won the most votes, but it didn't win a clear majority of seats in Parliament. The third-party Liberal Democrats, who hoped to surge into second place ahead of the deflated Labor government, fell short. As British television pundits noted, it was a reverse trifecta: All three parties lost.
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All politics is local, of course, but Britain's grouchy electorate sent a message that has echoes in the rest of Europe and even the United States: Voters aren't looking for massive change right now; they're looking for leaders who can find a safe way out of a deep economic crisis that never seems to end.
Thirty years ago, when Ronald Reagan won an election in the United States on the heels of Margaret Thatcher's victory in Britain, it was possible to talk about a wave of conservative politics sweeping the Western world — especially since Reagan and Thatcher shared a common passion for downsizing the liberal welfare state. Thirteen years ago, when Tony Blair's modernized Labor Party won its first majority in Britain, Blair and Bill Clinton talked grandly about their "Third Way," a loosely shared approach to governing from the center.
But this year, politics in the United States and Europe seem distinctly out of sync.
When Barack Obama won the presidency amid popular enthusiasm on both sides of the Atlantic, European social democrats hoped that the Democrats' success meant their time had come too. That didn't happen; Europe has seen no swing to the left. Indeed, if Britain's Tories form the next government in London, Western Europe's four biggest countries — Britain, Germany, France and Italy — will all have conservative leaders for the first time in decades. At the next U.S.-European summit, Obama will be the odd man out.flower
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Faith Salie: Happy Birthday to the Pill
It's Mother's Day, and I won't be receiving any cards or flowers or sweet, sloppy kisses, thanks - in large part - to the pill.The pill was born 50 years ago today. Is it a paradox to wish Happy Birthday to the birth control pill?
was on the pill for almost 15 years. Now, I'm a bit of an anomaly, because I was put on the pill not so much for birth control as to replace the estrogen I'd lost due to a touch of anorexia.
As I got older and had a lot more calories and a little more sex, preventing pregnancy was as easy as swallowing that tiny tablet.
We've come a long way not to have a baby. In 1912, a feminist nurse named Margaret Sanger, who blamed her own mother's death on 18 pregnancies, called for a "magic pill" that would allow a woman to (in Sanger's words) "choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother."
On May 9th, 1960, that "magic pill" became a radical reality.
I can intellectually grasp how revolutionary the pill was for that generation of women in the same way I can imagine the groundbreaking-ness of abolition or women's suffrage or waterproof mascara.
But by the time I got to college in the '90s, virtually every young woman I knew was on the pill. It was like a rite of passage, along with Doc Martens and Take Back the Night rallies.
It was a daily ritual of responsible womanhood: The neat circle of tiny pink pills for days 1 through 21; the green sugar pills through day 28. Complete the circle; control your cycle. Control your cycle; control your life.What could be more empowering? Plus it made your boobs bigger. Win-win.
It wasn't always so simple. Some young women had to defy parents, partners, even Popes to get it. It wasn't until 1965 that the Supreme Court officially overturned bans on contraception use by married couples!
I think Margaret Sanger would be pleased that, for the 100 million women who take the pill today, it's just "the pill." But for countless women 50 years ago, it was a miracle pill.
Many of them were our moms, and they raised us to know that being a mother was not an expectation or an obligation but a choice.It was the pill that truly made us pro-choice, not Roe v Wade.
It may have produced fewer children, but it produced better mothers: fulfilled women who deliberately created families.
I'm no longer on the pill, and now I plan to be a mature, grateful mother.
And that's why there's no better day than Mother's Day to celebrate it . . . as a better pill to swallow. poem
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As I got older and had a lot more calories and a little more sex, preventing pregnancy was as easy as swallowing that tiny tablet.
We've come a long way not to have a baby. In 1912, a feminist nurse named Margaret Sanger, who blamed her own mother's death on 18 pregnancies, called for a "magic pill" that would allow a woman to (in Sanger's words) "choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother."
On May 9th, 1960, that "magic pill" became a radical reality.
I can intellectually grasp how revolutionary the pill was for that generation of women in the same way I can imagine the groundbreaking-ness of abolition or women's suffrage or waterproof mascara.
But by the time I got to college in the '90s, virtually every young woman I knew was on the pill. It was like a rite of passage, along with Doc Martens and Take Back the Night rallies.
It was a daily ritual of responsible womanhood: The neat circle of tiny pink pills for days 1 through 21; the green sugar pills through day 28. Complete the circle; control your cycle. Control your cycle; control your life.What could be more empowering? Plus it made your boobs bigger. Win-win.
It wasn't always so simple. Some young women had to defy parents, partners, even Popes to get it. It wasn't until 1965 that the Supreme Court officially overturned bans on contraception use by married couples!
I think Margaret Sanger would be pleased that, for the 100 million women who take the pill today, it's just "the pill." But for countless women 50 years ago, it was a miracle pill.
Many of them were our moms, and they raised us to know that being a mother was not an expectation or an obligation but a choice.It was the pill that truly made us pro-choice, not Roe v Wade.
It may have produced fewer children, but it produced better mothers: fulfilled women who deliberately created families.
I'm no longer on the pill, and now I plan to be a mature, grateful mother.
And that's why there's no better day than Mother's Day to celebrate it . . . as a better pill to swallow. poem
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Tired Of Being Tired? A Beauty Salon Can Help
Most people are constantly running around; it is the human condition now to always be busy. There is work, school, family life, social obligation, down time and many other things that take up your time. However, you have to remember that the most important thing about your time is you. Making sure to take care of yourself is essential to giving quality to your time.
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