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School Lunch: It's Not Rocket Science
By Domenica Marchetti - Politics DailyThis morning I sent my daughter off to school with a smoked turkey and Monterey jack sandwich (on a ciabatta roll), two plums from the farmers market, a handful of cashews, and a small square of chocolate (she gets a carton of skim milk at school). Like millions of other parents who are sending kids back to school this week and next, I now face the challenge of packing my two children a nutritious and enticing lunch five days a week, more or less, for the next nine months -- a subject I'll be talking about at 1 p.m. today on WAMU's "Kojo Nnamdi Show." It's enough to make any busy working ...
Don't Trash Women of the Left or Right (Palin or Pelosi, Day or Night)
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyEarlier today, I heard WAMU's normally sensible Kojo Nnamdi (pictured here with a fan I gave birth to) laughing about David Letterman's Sarah Palin joke. Nnamdi suggested that the joke was fair commentary, given that Palin makes at least "part of her income'' from pushing abstinence. (She does? News to me.) He also said she should expect to be the butt of such jokes because her teen-age daughter had gotten pregnant and then decided not to marry. Only, that was last year's brouhaha; the issue here is whether it was OK to refer to any presidential hopeful (or any school board candidate, for that ...
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