Women Outnumber Men for Doctoral Degrees, 142 Women Enrolled in Grad School Per 100 Men, and Women Outnumber Men in 7 Out Of 11 Fields
Do Animals Have Rights? It's complicated.
Unitarian Church Finally Decides To Believe In Something, Nails Al Gore To Their Recycled Cross
IPCC error of the day
Joe Lieberman on the Sabbath
Eco-fun: Swim with the Piranhas
A California students' group has sparked a racism and sexism row over plans for a bake sale in which people are charged according to their ethnic background and gender.
Worried Greeks Fear Collapse of Middle Class Welfare State
VDH: Somewhere around 1985 in California I noticed that my students were hoping for a state job first, a federal job second, a municipal job third — and a private one last. A quote from his post:
When Jimmy Hoffa threatens the non-unionists, one imagines that Detroit is building better, safer, more reliable cars at a better price and has for decades. When Barack Obama urges the Black Caucus to march for equality, and adopts the cadences and pose of a 1960 civil rights leader, one would think the right wing in Florida just picked Bull Connor, not Herman Cain, as their straw poll winner. When the third-generation, hip spokesman for La Raza talks about inequality, one would think she herself just crossed the border from Oaxaca, forced to flee a benevolent Mexico to work in the pits of an American Mordor.
Ga. Middle School: Muslim Polygamy Is Normal, Burkas Good For Women
Michael Moore: "Patriotic Americans" Will Wait Longer For Healthcare
Racist Tea Party loves Herman Cain
It doesn't fit The Narrative
The return of net neutrality
UK update: Bible Banned From Christian Café
It'll be churches next
Obama Puts on His Best Dialect & Tells Black Audience “Stop Complaining & Fight”
Fight for what?
TNR: Left Behind: How Democrats Are Losing the Political Center
Village Voice’s Michael Feingold: “Kill the Billionaires!”
And then who do you tax?
You just know what Eliz Warren is like
Historic: Failed President Craters to 36% in New Poll
Turkey's foreign policy hits a dead end
Inspector general: Bush-era Pentagon officials cleared of wrongdoing
Who said this? Not every human problem deserves a law.
WaPo: Power shift in Asia
Greek Jews and the Holocaust: Recovering the Multiple Stories of Death, Rescue, and Resistance
IMF may need billions in extra funding
"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money"
Samuelson: Repeating Mistakes of the 1930s?
Netanyahu to Clinton: I’m not the one moving the goalposts
Let's face it: there will be no peace until Israel is erased. Thus permanent conflict for the forseeable future. Some problems are insoluble.
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