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Welcome, jbd, a.k.a Jennifer Daler!

by: Dean Barker

Mon Mar 09, 2009 at 19:14:07 PM EDT

Some nice news for the coming of spring.

Longtime Blue Hamster, unfailingly progressive, and wonderfully articulate jbd will be joining us on the front page as a contributing writer.

Let's welcome her aboard!

Update: And how's this for an encore? jbd will now be blogging under her own name, Jennifer Daler.

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welcome jbd n/t (4.00 / 1)

for transparency sake ~I represent Union print shops

by: JonnyBBad @ Mon Mar 09, 2009 at 18:40:27 PM CDT

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cool! n/t (4.00 / 1)

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." Franklin D. Roosevelt

by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Mon Mar 09, 2009 at 19:27:43 PM CDT

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Xongrats jbd! (4.00 / 4)

Her, eh? I had no idea. And sexist pig that I am, I assumed the opposite.

by: JimC @ Mon Mar 09, 2009 at 20:20:04 PM CDT

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You're not the only one. (4.00 / 1)

Do I think/write like a guy?

by: Jennifer Daler @ Mon Mar 09, 2009 at 20:39:35 PM CDT

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Digging my own hole here (4.00 / 2)

I had you pegged as a guy too. I'm thinking it might have simply been the use of initials - I'm more used to that with men (T.S. Eliot, I.F. Stone).

But then the poet h.d. was Hilda Doolittle, so my little assumption is just a reflection of "the media pays more attention to men, so that's the default."

I KNEW I was getting in trouble.

by: elwood @ Mon Mar 09, 2009 at 20:46:57 PM CDT

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um, me too... (4.00 / 2)

I'm embarrassed to admit.

2012 starts today.

by: Ray Buckley @ Mon Mar 09, 2009 at 21:13:40 PM CDT

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I knew (0.00 / 0)

I wish Blue Hampshire was hello, searchable the way it used to be...
I think I thought I had determined your gender, BECAUSE, you made every effort to be un...genderish !%? But you slipped in something like a clue after a long time. We were watching you, to you know, see if you was, well, you know, a girl. We were right Mo. She's a her.

for transparency sake ~I represent Union print shops

by: JonnyBBad @ Tue Mar 10, 2009 at 22:48:57 PM CDT

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Maybe Jim and Elwood thought your verb tenses are very masculine ;-) (4.00 / 2)

As for me, I think all anons are disembodied voices, perhaps coming from robots.

Way to redeem your humanity, sister!

Three cheers for the toast of Temple!

by: Andrew Sylvia @ Mon Mar 09, 2009 at 21:02:26 PM CDT

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It's kind of weird. (0.00 / 0)

I don't even know what thinking/writing like a guy means. That may be a subject to write about some time.

by: Jennifer Daler @ Mon Mar 09, 2009 at 21:04:47 PM CDT

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interesting tool (0.00 / 0)

http://www.genderanalyzer.com/

according to this, my blog is written by a man.

sanctimonious purist/professional lefty

by: susanthe @ Mon Mar 09, 2009 at 21:18:35 PM CDT

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It said my last diary (0.00 / 0)

had a 98% chance of having been written by a woman. Hmm. What's up with that?

by: Jennifer Daler @ Mon Mar 09, 2009 at 21:25:52 PM CDT

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apparently (0.00 / 0)

I'm REALLY the man they all thought you were. :~)

sanctimonious purist/professional lefty

by: susanthe @ Mon Mar 09, 2009 at 22:10:19 PM CDT

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Running your "Jennifer Daler's Page" diary list, (0.00 / 0)

68% chance of being written by a man.

by: This Was The Moment @ Mon Mar 09, 2009 at 22:23:22 PM CDT

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Tried it (0.00 / 0)

We guess http://www.bluenewstribune.com/ is written by a woman (56%), however it's quite gender neutral.

Maybe that should be BNT's motto.

by: JimC @ Tue Mar 10, 2009 at 00:33:41 AM CDT

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And (0.00 / 0)

We think http://www.eagleforum.org/psr/... is written by a man (69%).

by: JimC @ Tue Mar 10, 2009 at 00:37:24 AM CDT

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Masculine tenses? (0.00 / 0)

There must be some connection between "conjugate" and "conjugal."

Is there a Latin teacher in the house ?

by: elwood @ Mon Mar 09, 2009 at 21:06:42 PM CDT

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In Latin (4.00 / 2)

If you happen to be in the passive voice and in the perfect system of tenses (perfect, pluperfect, future perfect indicative, and perfect and pluperfect subjunctive), you are, by way of the formation of the verb, required to give away the gender of the subject: masculine, feminine, or neuter ("neither").

But in English I can't think of any case where gender is given away by verb tense.

Of course, the problem in English is with using a hypothetical person as a subject, because one if forced to go with pluralizing the object pronoun to "them" to avoid a "him" or "her." That's kind of annoying.

birch, finch, beech

by: Dean Barker @ Mon Mar 09, 2009 at 21:23:06 PM CDT

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Congrats that is (0.00 / 0)

Sorry, blogging without glasses. I'll go fetch 'em ...

by: JimC @ Mon Mar 09, 2009 at 20:21:50 PM CDT

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How exciting n/t (4.00 / 1)

by: fontasj @ Mon Mar 09, 2009 at 20:27:10 PM CDT

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welcome Jennifer! (4.00 / 3)

sanctimonious purist/professional lefty

by: susanthe @ Mon Mar 09, 2009 at 21:00:00 PM CDT

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This calls for.... (4.00 / 6)

Welcome Jennifer!

Whack-a-mole, anyone?

by: Jack Mitchell @ Mon Mar 09, 2009 at 21:39:23 PM CDT

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(h/t Doug Lindner) (4.00 / 2)

Doug created our dancing hamsters for BASH II.

Whack-a-mole, anyone?

by: Jack Mitchell @ Mon Mar 09, 2009 at 21:47:16 PM CDT

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Doug who ? n/t (4.00 / 2)

for transparency sake ~I represent Union print shops

by: JonnyBBad @ Tue Mar 10, 2009 at 18:42:26 PM CDT

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Wearing my headphones now, (4.00 / 1)

those Hamsters seem like they are dancing to this:

birch, finch, beech

by: Dean Barker @ Mon Mar 09, 2009 at 21:58:47 PM CDT

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Congratulations, Jennifer! (0.00 / 0)

What's the "B" for?

by: This Was The Moment @ Mon Mar 09, 2009 at 22:05:27 PM CDT

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Mazel Tov (0.00 / 0)

It's about time!

by: Dartmouth Dem @ Mon Mar 09, 2009 at 22:56:40 PM CDT

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Welcome Jennifer Daler (4.00 / 1)

Very cool and exciting - you go girl!
best,
from your old car pool session day buddy,
CDMB

by: catriona@catrionabeck.com @ Tue Mar 10, 2009 at 08:42:47 AM CDT

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Checking my ego at the door! (4.00 / 2)

OK, so me being new to NH politics... HAH! I met Jennifer Daler, my (former and FUTURE) State Rep in 2007 on the floor at Oprahpalooza. Introduced myself to her as a constituent, and a BH frequenter, etc... we got to know each other, visited, I worked on her campaign etc... I thought I was introducing her to Blue Hampshire! ha ha ha...

So, when she called me last night to give me the heads up about her unveiling today, I was floored!!! And so pleasantly pleased... How lucky we are to have had her all along... We are very lucky to have her as a front-page contributor, thanks for putting HER out front for all to see!

Feeling hopeful since 2004...now "Secretary" of the New Boston Democratic Caucus

by: Kelly Nordstrom @ Tue Mar 10, 2009 at 14:41:22 PM CDT

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Let me ditto... (4.00 / 1)

... Catriona on the congrats.
From your other old session day car pool buddy.

JillSH

by: JillSH @ Tue Mar 10, 2009 at 17:16:36 PM CDT

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