It just keeps on keeping on …

From the time I was an undergrad to the time I was left at the ripe old age of 42 by a molecular biology professor significant other for a 20 year old undergraduate who just adored the presentation I helped him write, this shit has rolled on around me. As some one who has [...]

On Overlooked Battles and Unsung Heroes

In the midst of so much policy disarray, it is easy to overlook many issues that deserve our attention. I’m beginning to think all the chaos may be angle of hat trick magician relying on slight of hand and misdirection. So, just as I continue to hammer at boring things like bank [...]

If you think you’re worse off now, you’re right and not alone

I put this article from yesterday’s NYTimes in the comments section of my thread yesterday. I’m not sure every one read it so I thought I’d front page it. It’s on the increasing poverty and median income declines in the U.S. as reported by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) and [...]

vpResident Evil on Fox: Waterboarding “good policy”

Fox News has just posted RAW DATA: Transcript of Cheney on ‘FOX News Sunday’. I’m not a lawyer and I’m certainly no expert on national security. I try to keep to economics because I have training and expertise there. Some times, because I’ve been given front page privileges, I bring things [...]

Hillary’s Gender Agenda

Here’s some news about Hillary Clinton’s New Gender Agenda as reported last week by the NY Times.
I have to say that Hillary really captured my admiration in 1995 when she gave that powerful speech in Beijing for the United Nations Conference. The only really feminist first lady that I can recall in my [...]

“The Public Option is not your Enemy”

Finally, if we are to win the battle that is now going on around the world between freedom and tyranny, the dramatic achievements in space which occurred in recent weeks should have made clear to us all, as did the Sputnik in 1957, the impact of this adventure on the minds of men everywhere, who [...]

Stealing Home

Any one of a certain age that attended university pre-Iranian revolution had many, many Iranian friends. I certainly did. After the revolution, many disappeared for reasons I never new. Since the hostage taking at the end of the Carter years, we now only hear disappointing things about life for the people [...]

Should Markets Respect Societal Bounds?

As you know, I frequently rely on the British press for news and political analysis.  I was delighted to find a link on Dr. Mark Thoma’s Economist’s View to the BBC’s broadcasts of the Riech Lectures for 2009.   Dr. Michael Sandel, Harvard Professor of Government,  delivers four lectures on the prospects of a new politics [...]

Narro Math?

I never thought about math much until I found out, some where around 12 or so, that girls weren’t supposed to be good at it.  Ever the tomboy,  I just had to prove them wrong and I’ve frequently been the only woman (and definitely the only American woman) in advanced math classes at university.  [...]

Somethings You Can’t Make Up

Given the choice between posting my final grades and my morning coffee or perusing some of the latest presidential antics and my morning coffee, I chose the latter.  The latest front pager at the Confluence, Steven Mather started a great conversation on Obots and willful blindness.  Since I was following a tweetathon last night between [...]