Like many people, I have a job that I never would have imagined for myself. Since 2014, I have worked as a field producer for the crime show “48 Hours” on CBS News. While I always knew I wanted to work in journalism, the idea that I would work in television was the furthest thing… Read More »Lessons of Life and Death at “48 Hours”
I’m really not a “the glass is half full” kind of girl. I don’t like to pretend things are great when they aren’t. But there is a bright spot to rising gas prices. Two, actually.
I wonder when it became a character flaw to have poise. I wonder why Barack Obama’s knowledge of pop culture (the fist bump or brushing the dirt off his shoulder, for example), good looks, and commanding presence on stage are somehow reasons to believe he’s all flash and no substance.
While watching Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton give their historic speeches to close the democratic primary season, I was conflicted. Not because the end to their epic battle was bittersweet, or because I would rather see either one of them in the White House than McCain, but because of the crowd’s reaction: a standing ovation.
“They said this day would never come” is one of Barack Obama’s favorite sound bytes. I’ve heard him recite it in person twice, once in Austin in 2007 and again in San Marcos just a few months ago.
I must admit this New York Times column calling for Clinton to deliver a speech on gender struck a chord with me. I particularly enjoyed when author Anna Holmes said, “sexism is so pervasive as to be almost invisible and so accepted that to mention it is to risk being accused of hypersensitivity.” Too often women refuse to speak up against sexism or, even worse, they fail to diagnose it out of fear of being labeled a “feminist.”