A few weeks ago, we asked our readers the following question: No one died on Black Friday, but have our bad shopping habits? And the votes are in! Here are the choices and winner! I love getting gifts this time of year, and am not ashamed. Received 20% of all votes I would rather have [...]

December 23, 2009 by crissy spivey | Tags: Giving, holiday shopping, Take the poll | Comments Off

So, even though the media was desperately looking for someone to be crushed during Black Friday last week, no one died. There was a bit of scuffle at Target over a random kitchen item, but nothing big enough to make the international news. However, even before we can get our Halloween costumes off, we are [...]

December 2, 2009 by crissy spivey | Tags: Black Friday, Christmas, Take the poll, Target | 1 Comment »

We hope everyone had a safe and amazing Halloween! Two weeks ago, as a result of the recent surge of the immigration costumes, major retailers were selling, we posed the following questions to our readers – Major retailers like Ricky’s and Amazon are selling shocking immigrant Halloween costumes. What are your thoughts? And the results [...]

November 2, 2009 by crissy spivey | Tags: b-listed, bigotry, costumes, Halloween quiz, immigrant, immigration, Racism, Take the poll | 1 Comment »

We’ve been posting on the recent anti-immigrant Halloween costumes. Frankly, it’s so shocking to see – everything from an alien head with a jail jumpsuit,  the sombrero-sporting man riding a donkey and the sexy alien sombrero at right with what we can’t even believe– handcuffs.  A few stores – Target, Walgreens and Toys R US [...]

October 20, 2009 by crissy spivey | Tags: Halloween costumes, Take the poll | 2 Comments »

On October 9th, President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” (www.wikipedia.org). (And yes of course, there is already a lengthy and informative wikipedia article about this, which you should check out.) Included in his efforts that led to his award, the committee [...]

October 15, 2009 by ishita | Tags: b-listed, Nobel Peace Prize Win, Obama, Peace Prize, results, Take the poll | Comments Off

President Obama was recently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. When the announcement was made on television, you could hear the sounds of those present. Were those sounds of excitement at this historic moment? Or was it shock and surprise at the idea that our new President who has promised amazing things (and seems to be [...]

October 9, 2009 by crissy spivey | Tags: Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama, Take the poll | 2 Comments »

This week, with the current Letterman sex scandal, discussions erupted about women and the workplace. Not those that were involved per se, but those other women working in the same vicinity, being made uncomfortable with situation. We posed a question to a readers and asked them: Late night host David Letterman stirred up a scandal [...]

October 9, 2009 by crissy spivey | Tags: David Letterman, poll, Sex Scandal, Take the poll | Comments Off

Being a human rights organization that does a great deal of women’s rights work,  we wanted to ask our readers their thoughts on the David Letterman “sex scandal. He confessed publicly before the news got out to the media and his Monday night show (the first after he admitted to having sex with women who [...]

October 6, 2009 by ishita | Tags: David Letterman, Sex Scandal, Take the poll, women's rights | 1 Comment »

In our most recent quiz we asked our blisted readers to share their thoughts on the Roman Polanski situation that we reported on last week. And the results are in: 56% of all votes said – Polanski did the crime, he should do the time. 28% of all votes said – I think he should [...]

October 6, 2009 by crissy spivey | Tags: breakthrough, Result of our poll, Roman Polanski, Take the poll | Comments Off

As an org that works on women’s rights issues, we want to know in the right-hand column of the page what you think about the recent arrest of filmmaker Roman Polanski. If you didn’t know, he was picked up in Switzerland for a allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl 30 years ago in Los Angeles. After [...]

September 29, 2009 by crissy spivey | Tags: 30 years ago, charged, Martin Scorsese, rape, Roman Polanski, Woody Allen | 4 Comments »