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• Strictly Come Dancing: Arlene Phillips to join Sadlers Wells board

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  Arlene Phillips whose controversial removal from the Strictly Come Dancing judging panel provoked accusations of ageism against the BBC has been made a director of Sadlers Wells.
  5 days ago

• UTMB ACCUSED OF AGE DISCRIMINATION

  
  UT: THE EYES OF TFA ARE UPON YOU! — Authority: 130
  The Blogmeister doesnt know the merits of this individuals particular case, but it does remind me of Dr. Frances Nestis case . In that instance, UTMB ran off a 70-year-old, female pediatrician (who had earlier, before UTMB had purged its EEO office in 2006 , made a claim of discrimination that stuck) yet kept a much ...
  6 days ago

• ODDS AND ENDS

  
  UT: THE EYES OF TFA ARE UPON YOU! — Authority: 130
  There doesnt seem to be a whole lot going today, so I thought Id seize the opportunity to talk about a few things that wouldnt, by themselves, rate a separate post: Klebe v. UT: I know I said that the judge would issue a decision on October 22nd.  He didnt.  Hes still considering the motions.  Ill give readers an ...
  1 week ago

• Am I Too Old To Find Work?

  
  CAREEREALISM: Because EVERY Job is Temporary — Authority: 551
  Dear J.T. & Dale: I’m an experienced, educated manufacturing manager who was downsized at the age of 62 in July of last year. I have been working daily through networking, Web sites and headhunters to find a new position. My wife thinks it is my age; although I don’t want to believe that, she may be correct. ...
  1 week ago

• Horoscopes for Elders ?

  
  Learning Curve on the Ecliptic — Authority: 424
  On an internet wander the other day, I happened upon a blog called "Time Goes By". Among the comments following 28 Octobers post, "The Essence of Elders", was one which brought up a point Id never even considered before.The blog post itself had addressed the issue of advertising aimed at elders (those generally ...
  1 week ago

• Letting Myself Off the Hook

  
  TIME GOES BY — Authority: 528
  For the past few days, Ive been wrestling some computer problems to the ground. If you are waiting for an email response from me, Ill get to it as soon as everything is in working order again – before long. Meanwhile, I decided to let myself off the hook to devote full time for a day to getting organized on this ...
  1 week ago

• Bystanders Watch Gang Rape: What ‘Doing Nothing’ Really Means

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 160
  [image making gang rape "sexy" is from here. And how many men protested this ads promotion of sexual violence against women by a group of men?]Below is a copy of CNNs story about why people who witness sexual violence against women often do nothing to intervene. In brackets and in bold are my responses to this ...
  1 week ago

• Burt’s Eye View: Henry Waxman Responds

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 814
  A while ago, I wrote a piece titled “ Blowing the Whistle on Waxman .”  In case you missed it, I explained that Henry Waxman and I had been friends beginning almost 50 years ago at UCLA.  I also said that we had seen each other infrequently over the intervening years once he went to Sacramento as a state ...
  1 week ago

• ObamaCare Line – 3

  
  Reflections From a Murky Pond — Authority: 421
  Assuming that ObamaCare is passed into law in America, people may in the future be calling the ObamaCare Line as the first step in receiving medical treatment. Here’s what such a phone call might sound like: The ObamaCare Line – Not Much For Gerontology Well, as over-the-top and hyperbolic as this video by ...
  2 weeks ago

• Human Rights Nonsense (8): Heightism or Height Discrimination

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 433
  (Quick reminder about this blog series , so as to avoid misunderstandings: I don’t want to imply that human rights are nonsense; regular readers know that the purpose of this blog is quite the opposite. What I want to do with the posts in this series is to point to the ways in which the language of human rights is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Navajo Women and Uranium Mine Poisoning: where Violence Against Women is a mutli-layered issue

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 160
  What strikes me about what you are about to read is the impossibility of comprehending "violence against women" from a white standpoint. White-centric analysis is utterly insufficient to grasp the depth and complexity of the forms of violence against women discussed below. For me, this piece, along with other posts ...
  2 weeks ago

• Top Chef Ageism

  
  Daisy's Dead Air — Authority: 527
  Robin Leventhal of Top Chef , photo by Michael Nank, from the Queen Anne Farmers Market . If this woman can be derisively called "grandma" by her fellow contestants, there is truly no hope for the rest of us. After all the online gnashing of teeth , gah! I dont wanna think about ageism ANY MORE. I AM ...
  2 weeks ago

• More on how the New Age can kill

  
  SocraticGadfly — Authority: 442
  Both the L.A. Times and the N.Y. Times have new stories about Sedona, Ariz. self-help guru James Arthur Ray. The LAT story notes that with possible manslaughter charges in his future, Ray is nonetheless on the road right now, still peddling New Age snake oil. But, as long as Ray can find suckers to pay him ...
  2 weeks ago

• What you think about age depends on how old you are

  
  50-Plus Marketing — Authority: 430
  Buried away in this 164 page report, just published by the Department for Wages and Pensions about the attitudes of Brits to age are some fascinating and a somewhat disturbing findings. The research in this report is based on secondary analysis of data from five national surveys (with a total of 6000 ...
  2 weeks ago

• This Should Make Senior Citizens Think Long And Hard About Obama’s Health Care Bill

  
  Goodtimepolitics — Authority: 426
  UK Government ran healthcare news: Many elderly patients miss out on the scans, drugs and even basic health advice routinely given to the young. Elderly have not received heart treatments, including clot-busting drugs, that are given to the young without question. And a study of 9,000 older adults last year – ...
  3 weeks ago

• Another First for Dead Air!

  
  Daisy's Dead Air — Authority: 527
  FWD/Forward (aka Feminists With Disabilities for a way Forward) just started publishing this month. This is a great blog, but unfortunately, I am not allowed to post there. (SEE EDIT BELOW) Yes! This is a MAJOR FIRST for Dead Air, wherein I link a blog that has already BANNED ME! Unfortunately, I went ...
  3 weeks ago

• Unemployment and ageism

  
  PJH Law - Employment Law Blog — Authority: 136
  In the current economic climate it seems there are two groups who are particularly at risk of unemployment, the old and the young.  There has been much in the press about those school/university leavers unable to secure their first permanent employment and the potential this may have on their future and that of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Once again, the New Age is a killer

  
  SocraticGadfly — Authority: 442
  This time, it’s not unvaccinated children dying, or people treating cancer with Reiki. Instead, three people have now died after participating an overheated sweat lodge ceremony at vortex ground zero for New Ageism, Sedona, Ariz. Just as with conventional religion, when somebody asks, “What’s the harm,” ...
  3 weeks ago

• Respect

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 530
  I was thinking today of something that is recently absent in society today – a seven letter word rarely remembered – a word that has had songs written about the importance of receiving it and has been the fodder of comics. Respect. The word used to need no definition but perhaps by today’s standards by ...
  3 weeks ago

• Jean Sarkozy could be the next Alexander the Great

  
  Telegraph.co.uk Culture Blog — Authority: 629
  The knives are out for Jean Sarkozy, the 23-year-old son of the French president. He’s been offered his father’s old job – heading up Epad, the development agency for La Défense, the business district of Paris. Cue charges of nepotism, column inches of outrage and an online petition signed, at the time of ...
  4 weeks ago

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