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I'm a fan of Slate.com both the web site and blogs as well as the podcasts. In addition to the existing podcasts (culture gabfest and political gabfest), Slate has recently started a new gabfest: the Double X Gabfest. There is also a Double X web site, which I haven't spent a whole lot of time on. So, what is it? It's a site devoted to women - not feminist issues per se but women in the news, what these really interesting women (who created and contribute to the site) are reading and thinking and analyzing.

For instance they've got a "Sotomayor Buzzword Watch" which is "keeping track of the arsenal of assaults from her attackers." The most recent podcast (linked above) discussed Sotomayor, of course, a recent study on womens' happiness in America and women action heros (i.e. why aren't there any good ones?).

I'd recommend giving the podcast a listen. Like the other Gabfests, this one makes you feel like you're taking part (kind of) in a conversation and it's real people just talking. These particular real people happen to be women who are lawyers, journalists, movie critics, news analysts and much more.