"America is more youth and looks obsessed than ever, with an array of expensive cosmetic procedures that allow women to be their own Frankenstein Barbies." – Maureen Dowd
Dowd ops ed on the emotional state of women in America, following thirty years of feminist struggles. Apparently men are happier than women even as women have gotten more of what they wanted. It seems females care more about the state of their relationships than males do. Who'd a thunk it?
The Banks v. The People:
Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut will be up for re-election soon, and he is the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. The voters in Connecticut, like those all over the country, are fed up with the banks' wrecking of the economy, but Sen. Dodd depends on the financial sector to finance his election. Talk about your rock and hard place. Dodd has to appeal to the voters to be re-elected, but he has to have the banks' money to run for office. Ouch! A microcosm into the state of our current economic and governmental debate. (See today's New York Times.)
Dowd ops ed on the emotional state of women in America, following thirty years of feminist struggles. Apparently men are happier than women even as women have gotten more of what they wanted. It seems females care more about the state of their relationships than males do. Who'd a thunk it?
The Banks v. The People:
Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut will be up for re-election soon, and he is the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. The voters in Connecticut, like those all over the country, are fed up with the banks' wrecking of the economy, but Sen. Dodd depends on the financial sector to finance his election. Talk about your rock and hard place. Dodd has to appeal to the voters to be re-elected, but he has to have the banks' money to run for office. Ouch! A microcosm into the state of our current economic and governmental debate. (See today's New York Times.)
Labels: How the world works, The Economy
posted by Jim | 11:07 AM
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Dowd ops ed
Nice verbing, Jim.
I recently saw some of the documentary, "Youth Knows No Pain," about a daughter of a plastic surgeon who struggles to decide whether she will have plastic surgery herself in order to put off the visible signs of aging. What struck me most was that I don't understand the thinking of those who do opt into cosmetic surgery. There's a logic there that I don't have access to. At least one of the folks interviewed is a man who had plastic surgery in order to make himself look more like Jack Nicholson--and quite the opposite of my preconceived notions about people who would have themselves surgically altered to look like specific celebrities, he was a fairly normal guy who could hold a conversation and had a significant other, though he had some ideas I just can't quite understand.
Some of the reviewers over at The Internet Movie Database suggest that beneath the logical arguments made by many patients in favor of cosmetic surgery lies deep-seated insecurities. I'm not sure that's true. The logic and insecurity are pretty difficult to separate at times. And if insecurity was the only factor in seeking out these procedures, wouldn't we all be under the knife right now?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1111233/
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