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Gabrielle Giffords and a Lousy New Year
By Mia Navarro - Politics DailyOn the morning my mother, Dinorah Perez de Navarro, died, the front page of the local newspaper said that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had been able to keep her eyes open and move her legs and hands. I smiled through tears. I had followed Giffords' progress as I tended to my mother in her last days. In my state of shock, I had related every bit of good news about Giffords' delicate state to my mom's own well-being – if Giffords, suffering from a gunshot wound in her head at 40 could make it, my 83-year-old mom, suffering from complications after a fall in the bathroom, could survive, ...
Princess Diana and Sarah Palin: Mirror Images?
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailySarah Palin is the political Princess Diana. That's what one GOP source told me recently. "Let's be honest. If she didn't have looks, we wouldn't be talking about her. You wouldn't be covering her. She's like Princess Diana." Shallow? Yes. But isn't there truth there? Princess Diana captured hearts at age 19 when Prince Charles selected her as a bride. Sarah Palin hit the scene when Sen. John McCain picked her as his running mate, although she'd already had a spread in Vogue as Alaska's governor. ...
Michelle Obama's Handshake, and Other Cultural Pitfalls in the Muslim World
By Mia Navarro - Politics DailyThe brouhaha over the Indonesian information minister who blamed Michelle Obama for leaving him no choice but to shake her hand -- in violation of his own Muslim rules to avoid contact with women not related to him -- reminded me of the "ugly American" scene in the movie "Sex and the City 2." There was Samantha, struggling with hot flashes while walking amid the throngs at a spice market in Abu Dhabi, when a group of religious men took exception to her exposed cleavage. Samantha being Samantha, she reached into her purse for her condoms and threw them at the men. Certainly, there must be a ...
New York Judge to 4-Year-Old: See You in Court!
By Mia Navarro - Politics DailyBetween the political campaigns and the latest terrorist threat from Yemen, there was this story out of a Manhattan courtroom. The good news: A mother wasn't held responsible for the actions of her 4-year-old daughter, at least not legally. The bad news: The little girl is going down. A state Supreme Court judge ruled that the girl, accused of running down an elderly woman while racing a bicycle on a city sidewalk two years ago, can be sued for negligence, the New York Times reported Friday. The logic went something like this: Had she been 4 or younger, she wouldn't have known better. But ...
On 9/11, A Passenger and Flight Attendant Make Peace
By Mia Navarro - Politics DailyI had scheduled my flight back to New York without thinking about the date. On Thursday, as I wound up a work week in Arizona and started planning my return to the city, it finally dawned on me. "Darn, I'm flying on 9/11." I'm not sure what exactly I feared, but the "high" terror alert at the airport security checkpoint in Flagstaff did not make me feel any better. I usually feel like sheep when I fly. On Saturday, I felt the urge to quack. As it turned out, my flights to Phoenix and then on to New York on US Airways were right on schedule and just as packed with passengers as usual. We may ...
Sarah Palin Says, 'Cojones'; I Say, 'Please Stop!'
By Mia Navarro - Politics DailyPolitical bloggers have been busy dissecting the latest from Sarah Palin. Speaking about the governor of Arizona and her state's controversial immigration law, Palin said on "Fox News Sunday": "Jan Brewer has the 'cojones' that our president does not have to look out for all Americans, not just Arizonans, but all Americans in this desire of ours to secure our borders and allow legal immigration to help build this country." This got me thinking. What is it that allows people to think that saying something in a foreign language makes it less offensive? First of all, if Jan Brewer really had ...
You Will Get Alzheimer's. Discuss.
By Mia Navarro - Politics DailyDo we really want to know? The latest news on the Alzheimer's disease front is that medical experts are proposing new diagnostic guidelines to detect the illness before there are any noticeable symptoms. In other words, your doctor would be able to tell you -- "You will get Alzheimer's" -- even when your memory is fine and your main worry is losing those 10 pounds to fit into the right dress for your high school reunion. And then, the worse news: There are no drugs right now that can help you prevent the disease. I read this news in a New York Times report this week with great interest, ...
The End of Men? Women in Control? This Is News?
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyEvery five years or so, give or take, a female socio-multiculti-gender savant with shining credentials and a large reputation for Big Thought delivers a footnote-laden tract on the end of masculinity that reels off endless debate and buzz. This month The Atlantic magazine treats us to an eye-grabbing cover story apocalyptically titled "The End of Men" – without a question mark, so sure is the magazine and the article's author, Hanna Rosin, the co-editor of Slate's Double X, that they've got their hands on ground-breaking, irrefutable material. Prodded by my feminist conscience and the ...
Kickball: Where the XX Rules
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyKickball changed my life. Yes, that playground game with the big rubber ball. As Annie Savoy opined in Bull Durham, "The only church that truly feeds the soul - day in, day out - is the Church of Baseball." The same could be said about kickball. I tried for years to find fellowship at church, but for some reason, sharing coffee and talking about the Bible didn't really fulfill me. Not that I turned my back on God. I still attend church but I don't go to make long-lasting friendships over scripture and donuts. Sunday afternoon kickball has taught me a lot about life. I never played ...
Passion That Doesn't Play Out? Science Tells Us It's Real
By Christine Wicker - Politics DailyScientists have long comforted those of us plodding through the tedium that long-term relationships can become by telling us that passion doesn't last for anyone. Within three months to three years, it has done its job of encouraging us to procreate. Perhaps it has kept us together long enough for a child or two to be born. Then, task accomplished, it fades. ...
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