Bikini Politicstag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1205432011-11-17T14:57:43-05:00Common-sense writing from a woman who is Right.TypePadThe Mixed Strategery of Occupationtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83455b11769e201539331ca9c970b2011-11-17T14:57:43-05:002011-11-17T14:57:43-05:00Wherever Occupy Wall Street says it will go, there go hundreds if not thousands of police officers. If Occupy Wall Street were a confrontational organization bent on occupying space, or more directly, limiting access to institutions like the stock exchange,...bikinipoliticshttp://www.bikinipolitics.com/my_weblog/2011/11/the-mixed-strategery-of-occupation.htmlWherein I agree with OWS, only a little.tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83455b11769e201539317b661970b2011-11-15T11:15:25-05:002011-11-15T11:15:25-05:00While OWS is right that public corruption threatens us, it only threatens us as much as it does because the power of the state has grown so large.bikinipoliticshttp://www.bikinipolitics.com/my_weblog/2011/11/wherein-i-agree-with-ows-only-a-little.htmlA Real Answer on Student Loanstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83455b11769e20162fc430732970d2011-11-09T21:22:56-05:002011-11-10T13:06:29-05:00The President recently announced that, under his new program, student loan payments will be no more than 10% of your disposible income. I was sure that I, as a first year associate at a large law firm, wouldn't qualify for...bikinipoliticshttp://www.bikinipolitics.com/my_weblog/2011/11/a-real-answer-on-student-loans.htmlThe Science of Succor and Moral Hazardtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83455b11769e20133f2e45d7f970b2010-08-06T14:22:00-04:002010-08-06T14:22:00-04:00I love TED talks, and in my post bar-exam I watched this great video on TED: ... and it raised for me an interesting question. Normally, I'm pretty aggressive in demanding performance metrics from public policy proposals. However, the more...bikinipoliticshttp://www.bikinipolitics.com/my_weblog/2010/08/the-science-of-succor-and-moral-hazard.htmlA Careful Link is (Sometimes) Worth 10,000 Poststag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83455b11769e2013480589f10970c2010-05-03T15:14:55-04:002010-05-03T15:14:55-04:00I was going to write about the Harvard Law E-Mail debacle of 2010, complete with my own denouncement of the politics of personal destruction and the necessity of tipping sacred cows in the spirit of rigorous debate. However, after reading...bikinipoliticshttp://www.bikinipolitics.com/my_weblog/2010/05/a-careful-link-is-sometimes-worth-10000-posts.htmlRight-Wing Stickers in Cambridge, vol 7tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83455b11769e20133eca396a3970b2010-04-12T15:27:39-04:002010-04-12T16:09:05-04:00It's like a little beacon of protest amid all the samizdat blather... :-)bikinipoliticshttp://www.bikinipolitics.com/my_weblog/2010/04/2010-04-12t192739z.htmlTax Free Public School Teacher Salaries: Discuss.tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83455b11769e20133ec6edb58970b2010-04-03T15:39:22-04:002010-04-03T15:39:22-04:00What if public school teacher salaries were tax-free for the first $60,000 of income? I like the idea of using a tax cut to invest in public schools, and I do think that public schools should be able to pay...bikinipoliticshttp://www.bikinipolitics.com/my_weblog/2010/04/tax-free-public-school-teacher-salaries-discuss.htmlNaked in Washingtontag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83455b11769e201310fa8e3cc970c2010-03-16T10:17:57-04:002010-03-16T10:17:57-04:00The stars these days in Washington seem to range from partially to totally nude, and given that politics is Hollywood for ugly people, I’m not happy about it. First we have Massa, who was apparently only nude in the snorkel...bikinipoliticshttp://www.bikinipolitics.com/my_weblog/2010/03/naked-in-washington.htmlThe Gippertag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83455b11769e2012876c193a6970c2010-01-10T12:35:49-05:002010-01-12T10:19:25-05:00Meet Gipper! We only feed him red meat. Of course.bikinipoliticshttp://www.bikinipolitics.com/my_weblog/2010/01/2010-01-10t173549z.htmlMessage from Youth: The Buck Stops HERE?!!!?!?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83455b11769e2012875fa6652970c2009-12-01T15:27:34-05:002009-12-01T15:36:16-05:00There's a great post over at NDN blog today, summarizing what I've been saying here and on American Maggie-- young people are disproportionately affected by the bad economy, and dramatically strongly support the President, yet the President doesn't address their...bikinipoliticshttp://www.bikinipolitics.com/my_weblog/2009/12/message-from-youth-the-buck-stops-here.html