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Cross-posted from The Huffington Post . By now, you're likely familiar with the parade of racists, sexists, conspiracy theorists and hatemongers on the payrolls of mainstream media: CNN's Lou Dobbs advances the claims of unhinged birthers; FOX's Glenn Beck calls the president a racist ; MSNBC pays as an analyst Pat Buchanan, who says slavery was good for black folks . Not to be left behind, ABC welcomed to its This Week roundtable right-winger Michelle Malkin, who has referred to the first lady as President Obama's " cron[y] of color ," and is advancing the conspiracy theory that Democratic health-care reform is designed to euthanize old people . Bottom line: hate sells. Eager to bring eyeballs to its Web site, the Washington Post this week got in on the act , producing a video featuring two star columnists, Chris Cillizza (reportedly a nice guy) and Dana Milbank ( reportedly not ), that suggests at a future White House beer summit, Hillary Clinton be ser...

In our Viagra culture, it does not surprise your blogstress that women could easily be left out of the economic-stimulus-qua-jobs-building program that President-elect Obama has promised us. With their emphasis on infrastructure and green retrofits for job creation, the ideas being batted about appear to heavily favor jobs whose prerequisite skill sets belong largely to men. In the meantime, our health-care and educational infrastructures are also coming undone; these are sectors where women predominate, and little attention has been given to job creation in these human spheres. Linda Hirshman, with whom your blogstress sparred most vigorously during the primary season, first brought this state of affairs to our attention on the op-ed page of the New York Times not very long ago. Now, a group of women, including feminist economists, have launched an online petition to the president-elect, politely asking that half of the population be dealt into the new New Deal. Here's the t...

Great question on undocumented workers