For the start of Women’s History Month: Focus on Virginia Apgar

Virginia Apgar – pioneer in surgery, anesthesiology, neonatology – cross posted from 51 Percent “Nobody, but nobody, is going to stop breathing on me!” –Dr. Virginia Apgar, ca. 1950s, explaining why she kept basic resuscitation equipment with her at all times. It has been said that every baby born in a modern hospital anywhere in [...]

Stuck On Stupid

Q:  What do Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Ann Coulter, Jonathan Krohn, Rick Santelli, Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher (aka “Joe the Plumber”) and Michael Steele have in common? A:  None of them currently hold elective office anywhere in the country. The past couple of weeks the Kool-aid bloggers have been going apeshit over Republicans.  Two people gave speeches on [...]

Join AngieNC and Madamab for NO WE WON’T

TONIGHT AT 8:00PM EST:  TO LISTEN – CLICK THIS LINK Comments are closed until 9:30pm EST.  Join us here then for the “Aftershow After Party! Until then, please join the post downstairs!

Read it and weep: “the seemingly unbridgeable chasm” that is the gender wage gap

Crossposted from Heidi Li on Equality at 51 Percent. All quotes from Why Is Her Paycheck Smaller? By HANNAH FAIRFIELD Published: February 28, 2009 – The New York Times (Click graphic to go to large interactive chart). Full story here. Nearly every occupation has the gap — the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between the size of [...]

Sunday: Bad Bank

Knowledge is power, Conflucians.  When it comes to the economy, I feel like a novice.   Playing with money never interested me.  It was enough to diversify my options in my 401K and leave it at that, although, I had a sneaking suspicion in the back of my mind that I should learn what it [...]

Empty Promises

I am getting really sick of hearing about all the great things that Obama is supposedly doing only to find out that it is all “just words”.  I didn’t watch His Majesty’s royal audience last week, but the next day I heard a snippet on NPR about a young woman that he had put on [...]