The CDC this week recommended women between the ages of 15 and 44 not drink alcohol unless they're on birth control. Why run the risk to the baby if there's a chance you could be pregnant and not yet know it?
Some question whether the caution against any alcohol instills a fear that outweighs the risk, while others chafe at the condescension that targets only women, and not the men who get them pregnant.
Next, Washington Post editor Bob Woodward told MSNBC this week that Hillary Clinton "shouts" too much. He said there's "something unrelaxed about the way she's communicating."
Woodward is not alone. Research suggests most of us fall prey to implicit bias against women, who are far more likely than men to be seen as abrasive in their speech.
Lastly, the Hartford Yard Goats released their jingle Wednesday. Do jingles have to be awful to be good? And, which feels worse: embarrassing yourself, or experiencing the cringe-worthy moments of others?
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- Rebecca Castellani - Scholar of Modern Literature
- James Hanley - Co-founder of Cinestudio at Trinity College
- Kate Rushin - Poet, writer, and educator. She's teaches poetry writing workshops and is currently working with the Hartford Public Library on OneBook Hartford: If Beale Street Could Talk, by James Baldwin
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Colin McEnroe, Betsy Kaplan and Chion Wolf contributed to this show.
