Heather Michon
- Location
- Virginia,
- Birthday
- June 25
- Bio
- An essayist, a historian, a feminist, a wife and a daughter....all with varying degrees of success.
MY RECENT COMMENTS
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trouble
with my internet
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February 02, 2010 05:02PM - “This is one of those
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often, and
while I'm very
sorr…”
January 29, 2010 12:47PM - “Yay! Short, sweet, and
altogether correct!”
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Great
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reproductive rights, we
too
often l…”
January 22, 2010 12:48PM - “Never been up to that
part of Utah, but hope to get
there on
some westward
trip.…”
January 21, 2010 09:40AM
Heather Michon's Links
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- The Best of 2009
- Islamophobia Busting Out All Over: The Swiss Ban Minarets
- The Real Food Stamp Challenge: Compassion
- Time To Ground Air Force One?
- Crazy Eights: The Bailout of Nadya Suleman
- We Are All Travis the Chimp
- "Naked As the Day Dr. Frakenstein Made Her"
- Sonia Sotomayor & Menstrual Madness
- Cindy Sheehan Isn't Important Anymore
- Why Do Feminists Hate Babies?
- 100 Days In Tehran
- The Hijab Martyr
Let's recap the last couple weeks in The John and Elizabeth Edwards Show.
- Game Change blasts Elizabeth as a harridan so abusive of her husband and his campaign staff that most of them were rooting for her cancer cells.
- John Edwards (finally) admits paternity of his nearly 2-year old daughter, … Read full post »
"It is fitting that 9/11 suspects face justice near the
World Trade Center site, where so many New Yorkers were
murdered."
-- New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, November
2009
"There are places that would be less expensive for the
taxpayers and less disruptive for New York City,"
--New York… Read full post »
Today is the 37th anniversary of the Supreme Court's
Roe v Wade decision, so NARAL has asked bloggers
across the Interwebs to meditate on the theme "Trust Women."
These were the words on a button frequently worn by Dr. George
Tiller, assassinated in Wichita last spring by an
anti-aborti… Read full post »
Criticism has been growing over the last few days over the
Dread Mainstream Media's coverage of sporadic violence and looting
in Port-au-Prince.
While most print and broadcast media have been careful to emphasize
the word "'sporadic,'
there have been reports of looting of stores and homes, tussles
ov… Read full post »
Haiti: A Disaster Within A Disaster
One week after the catastrophic earthquake strikes Haiti, international rescue forces are feeling pretty good about their efforts.
Within 24 hours of the quake, Haitian officials had met with high-ranking experts from the UN and U.S. to pour over damage/… Read full post »
George W. Bush, Clinton To Head Haiti Relief
Via Fox News, NBC, CNN:
President Barack Obama has formally asked ex-Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to head up U.S. efforts in Haiti earthquake relief.
The president is expected to speak at 10:05 EST .
Update #1: AFP has the story here.
Update #2: Chuck Todd on MSNBC… Read full post »
As jury selection in the trial of Scott Roeder for the murder of Dr. George Tiller ground to a temporary halt yesterday after a Kansas judge decided that a jury might consider a charge of "voluntary manslaughter," the doctor's widow went to court to try to quash a defense motion that… Read full post »
Wow. Can you imagine someone as cool, as hip, as Senator Harry
Reid saying something really uncool and un-hip?
Well, he did.
According to excerpts from "Game Change," the dishy new book about
the 2008 campaign, sometime during that year Reid spoke approvingly
of Barack Obama's candidacy, sinc… Read full post »
Want a little cognitive dissonance with your lunch today? Click
on over to The Daily Beast and read Nicolle Wallace's post on
"What If the Bomb Had Gone Off?"
Wallace, former Bush White House Communications Director and Senior
Adviser to the McCain-Palin campaign, is in top form, managing to
praise Pr… Read full post »
Publishing Faces Sophie's Choice
I assume that I'm not the only writer here who has
"Publish a %$&*#^ book!" somewhere on their list of resolutions
for 2010. Of course, it was also on my 2009 list, and maybe my 2008
list, but I have recently come to learn what Mount Everest this
seemingly… Read full post »
It made the kind of international headlines the U.S. military
simply does not need these days:
word that a Army general in Iraq was "banning" pregnancy in his
ranks by threatening soldiers and their partners with court
martial should they become pregnant while on
deployment.
Major General Antho… Read full post »
With the end of the Aughts (or whatever we're going to call
this malodorous decade) in sight, List-mania is upon us. The
Best. The Worst. Etcetera.
Of all the lists I've read so far, my vote for "Most Perplexing" is
the one put together by the online magazine Double X entitled
"The… Read full post »
General Cucolo Talks With Reporters About Pregnancy Ban
Murder. Rape. Theft. Desertion. Dereliction of Duty.
Pregnancy.
Which one of these things is different from the others?
In this case: none. All are offenses for with members of the U.S.
Army serving in Northern Iraq could face court martial.
Currently, any U.S. servicewoman who finds herself pregnant wh… Read full post »
The latest Twitter brouhaha began, as most do, with a single
tweet:
"Please pray like never before, my 2 yr old fell in the pool"
Shellie Ross, a Florida military mom and blogger, was reaching out
to a community of more than 5,000 people who follow her on Twitter,
while she waited… Read full post »
Among the Missing: Where Is Morgan Harrington?

Laci Peterson. Natalee Holloway. Elizabeth Smart. Just about anyone who owns a television knows their names, their faces, their stories. The saturation coverage of high-profile cases like theirs has become so ubiquitous that it has even gained a name: Missing White Woman Syndrome.

No.
Amanda Knox is being punished for being a whore.
Of course, the 22-year old Seattle native, convicted over the
weekend to a term of 26 years in prison for the of the murder
of… Read full post »
Two days after unveiling his new plans for Afghanistan at West
Point, positive reactions to
President Obama's speech are hard to find -- even among some of
his most reliable supporters.
Even our own Joan Walsh, over at Big Salon, was seriously
unenthused.
One thing she wrote, though, really caught my… Read full post »

A Cow Muses On Swiss Anti-Minaret Campaign Poster (AP Photo)
Defying pollsters' predictions and the fervent hopes of the government, the Swiss yesterday voted overwhelming in favor of a ban on the building of minarets near the country's mosques, thus becoming the first Eu… Read full post »
It is so hard not to be a cynic.
How could it be otherwise? We live in the Age of the Phony.
What once used to be confined mostly to the entertainment industry
has infested our national consciousness -- including, most
dangerously, our political discourse.
Campaigns are little more sophisticated marketi… Read full post »
The Hijab Martyr
In August 2008, a
32-year old Egyptian-born pharmacist named Marwa
al-Sherbini took her son,
Mustafa, to a children's playground near their home in
the northern German city of Dresden.She asked a man to please move from a swing so her little boy could play.
Alex Wiens, an ethnic German who immi… Read full post »
As Democrats in the House of Representatives exchanged high-fives and flicked each others' butts with metaphorical wet towels after passing the health insurance reform bill this weekend on a narrow 220-215 vote, millions of pro-choice women learned that this "victory" came at the cost of their rights… Read full post »

**Breaking: Iran announced today that the three Americans will be charged with espionage. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, speaking from Berlin, said: "We believe strongly that there is no evidence to support any charge whatsoever. We would renew our request on behalf of thes… Read full post »
The cover story in this weekend's New York Times Magazine was
sedately entitled "The
Obamas' Marriage," but might as well have been called "Oh
My God I'm Hanging Out In the Oval Office With Barack n'
Michelle!"
Jodi Kantor is hardly the first reporter to switch off her
reasoning module in… Read full post »
The New York Times ArtBeat blog reports today
on the controversy over the selection of 13-year old Abigail
Breslin to play Helen Keller in a Broadway revival of "The
Miracle Worker" set to open this winter. "Ms. Breslin," blogger
Patrick Healy helpfully notes, "can see and hear."
This does n… Read full post »
Heather Michon's Favorites
Updates
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For Better or Worse
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The Failure of the Press Led to the Failure of the Economy
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A Plea To the Editors: Poetry for Valentines
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Valentine's Day Open Call: Lover's revenge
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Not buzzing over Google Buzz
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The Most Viewed (Non-Super Bowl) TV Broadcasts of All Time
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Objectify My Love
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America's Next Top Martyr
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