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4

Oped for NYT on What I Think Ohio’s Gloom Means for Midterms

Filed Under Blogging, Economy, Elections, employment, Government, leadership, Ohio, Politics | Leave a Comment

Earlier today I was asked to write a 300 word oped on Ohio, our voters, our economy and what the heck do we want done with it all as part of the New York Times’ Room For Debate platform. You can see my thoughts next to those of five others here. The others include John Green, from the Bliss Institute, who I love, and Karen Beckwith, from CWRU’s political science department, who I also think is great.  I’m not familiar with the other three writers, Roy Cooklis of the Cincinnati Enquirer, Andrew Cayton, a professor of History at Miami University of Ohio and Michael Curtin, of the Columbus Dispatch, except by name.  Check out their opeds and tell us what you would have said – or think of what we said.

Question for everyone: What do you think about the Room For Debate format? Interesting, I think. Reminds me a bit of the Plain Dealer’s Wide Open experiment, but a lot more refined.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:28 pm October 4th, 2010 in Blogging, Economy, Elections, employment, Government, leadership, Ohio, Politics | Please comment 

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4

LAST DAY TO REGISTER TO VOTE!

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All the links you need to get REGISTERED to vote in Ohio this November:

Dear Jill,

Your inbox is going to be flooded today with emails from candidates and political parties telling you that today is the close of voter registration.  As Secretary of State, it’s my job to tell you that, too, but allow me to point out a few extra things. Read more

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:35 am October 4th, 2010 in Jennifer Brunner, Ohio, Voting | Please comment 

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4

Update: Well-known Online & Offline Conservative “Unfriends” Me Because…We Don’t Really Know Why

Filed Under Blogging, conservatives, intolerance, Politics, Women, Writing | 2 Comments

Last night I blogged about how I’d asked the well-known conservative talk radio personality who said, “liberal feminism is fake, it’s a shtick used by older women who are irrelevant in today’s politics.” to please let me know if that statement, found in a blog post at the EMILY’s List blog (which I got to only because my friend and fellow pundit, Joanne Bamberger, had, from her Facebook page, linked to a different post on the same blog and I wandered over to the other EL posts about the Smart Girl Summit), was accurate.  We know each other from having overlapping tenure as Contributing Editors at BlogHer.com (I still write for them, she does not – as far as I know).

I’ll spare everyone the silliness of the she said-she said stuff (but I strongly recommend this excellent take by Joanne Bamberger in her post, “The New Political Mean Girls”); those of us who are familiar with this person have come to expect exactly how she over-reacted, rather than just answering the question.  This post is about some conservatives phobia for being real or, in their version of what they consider to be being real, are incapable of going beyond talking points and derision. Why on earth would a person with literally thousands if not tens of thousands of public followers and maybe many times more private admirers unfriend someone like me, whom she has already attempted to argue and assert is, in her opinion, politically irrelevant? Read more

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:01 am October 4th, 2010 in Blogging, conservatives, intolerance, Politics, Women, Writing | 2 Comments 

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3

[updated] ICYMI: “liberal feminism is fake, it’s a shtick used by older women who are irrelevant in today’s politics.”

Filed Under activism, conservatives, intolerance, Politics, Republicans | 2 Comments

I know! Did you know!? It’s incredible that we didn’t, huh? I mean, look here.  Who knows, right?!

Just to be sure that that quote is correct, rhetoric or not, I’m checking in with the person to whom that quote is attributed, a right-wing blogger and media gadfly, maybe even with a few things in common with me that way, although, you know, not old and I guess not a feminist or not a liberal or not a liberal feminist – or not an old liberal feminist -  just to have her certify that she did in fact preach that mantra at the Smart Girl Summit last week.

Still, I am super disappointed! Why on earth hasn’t anyone ever told me how irrelevant I am? Why are they, like, voting for me, and electing me to stuff – like through real political mechanisms, like, elections? Read more

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:46 pm October 3rd, 2010 in activism, conservatives, intolerance, Politics, Republicans | 2 Comments 

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Oct

1

Army of Bloggers for Breast Cancer Research

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This program is very interesting and if it works, that will be great. I went through genetic testing (don’t have the gene) for breast cancer 11 years ago but that was in part to determine if I should enter a clinical trial being done locally and in regard to breast cancer prevention tactics.  I read everything that comes my way and get regular exams but I do have a higher risk than most women due to family history and age when I had my first child (31).  So I would definitely like to stay up on and participate in research, especially if it’s simple.

According to Susan Niebur, it is – here are her suggestions for how to get involved (I’m both blogging about the Army and I joined it):

Of course you don’t have to have a blog to join, it’s just an added way of reaching out to more potential participants.  Research. It does a body good – and hopefully can help better prevent and treat breast cancer.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:28 am October 1st, 2010 in activism, Blogging, Health Care | 1 Comment 

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1

And More Some People Pay Me Dept: Where’s Our Ode To Joy?

Filed Under Humor, Parenting, Women, Writing, Youth | 1 Comment

Gotta give you the visual first, by the fabulous Diana Hadley:

And a teaser of text (you can read the column in full here at Cleveland Family) from my most recent Mommy Matters column:

Sometime in August, before the academic calendar kicked in, my family got hooked on watching movies based on the lives of talented, but tormented, giants.

It’s probably more accurate to say that my endless prancing around the house and singing the 1986 hit by the Austrian rock group Falco, “Rock Me Amadeus,” caused my kids to relent and watch the F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce classic from 1984, “Amadeus,” with me. Then, having enjoyed that film, we moved on to 1994’s “Immortal Beloved” with Gary Oldman as Beethoven and an always luminescent Isabella Rossellini as one of three candidates for the “immortal beloved” moniker.

Ironically, however, after this immersion into the truly anguished existence these art achievers lived, I emerged with a different perspective on what often feels like a relentless pursuit of perfection in my own little life. This light-bulb moment – or candlelight as would have been the case for Wolfgang or Ludwig – occurred one morning as I anticipated my household’s transition from unstructured summer days to tightly choreographed engagement in all things academic, musical, athletic and religious (those four categories being the ones that occupy most of my family’s waking hours during the school year).

Many thanks as always to artist Diana Hadley and publisher and editor, Terri Nighswonger.  I’m very lucky and grateful to be in my seventh year writing for the magazine (and the sixth for the column – archives here).

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:08 am October 1st, 2010 in Humor, Parenting, Women, Writing, Youth | 1 Comment 

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1

More Some People Pay Me: Vanity Fair’s “New Establishment:” Not New, Not Very Female

Filed Under Business, employment, Gender, Marketing, Media, Sexism, Social Issues, social media, Women | Leave a Comment

A teaser from the brand new post:

In its October 2010 issue, Vanity Fair did its 100 “new establishment” people – some of the 100 spots are occupied by teams, others by individuals or duos. The formal name of the list is “the 100 most influential people of the information age.” Guess how many women are in the new establishment? A total of 14 women, and of those, six are paired with men, while only eight are recognized on their own, individually. The menz? A few men must share the spotlight in team settings, but those team props simply add to the total number of included men further dwarfing the total number of women.

Oh – stop being such a whiner everyone wants to say these days, right? After all, just two days ago on BNET, Mark Henricks wrote a post called, Why It’s Time to Stop Giving Women Entrepreneurs Special Help. His theory:

You’ll need to go read the full post here. ;)

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:27 am October 1st, 2010 in Business, employment, Gender, Marketing, Media, Sexism, Social Issues, social media, Women | Please comment 

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