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Its funny how researching a blog post can cause you to stumble upon information that derails your train of though and sends your mind and fingers careening down an entirely different path. It doesn’t happen to me that often, but when it does I try to just go where the research leads me.
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On Wednesday, Senate Republicans filibustered the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, a law that would have overturned an appalling Supreme Court decision that practically abolished remedies for gender-based compensation discrimination in the workplace. (see: Republicans Filibuster Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act)
This Act is designed to address the problems faced by workers of both [...]

As some people know, I have been dealing with a health issue involving a colleague at work and have not had the time I normally would have in the evenings to write blog posts.
Yesterday however, I ended up writing a very lengthy comment in response to Will Taft’s blog post Why Obama Might Be Our [...]

As he says, he is endorsing Obama the Movement for change moreso than Obama the Candidate.

My Vote’s for Obama (if I could vote) …
by Michael Moore
April 21st, 2008
Friends,
I don’t get to vote for President this primary season. I live in Michigan. The party leaders (both here and in D.C.) couldn’t get their act together, [...]

I normally don’t do memes but Heather over at Geek Mom Mashup tagged me with a short and easy one. Since I have a lot of research to do before my next longish post I decided to do it.
The meme is: Seven Weird or Unique Things About Me

I was part of the charter [...]

From: US renews call for science debate- (free physicsworld.com account may be needed)

Will they agree to discuss science?
Scientists in the US have sent out a fresh call for the three main US presidential candidates to take part in a public debate on science.
Organizers of ScienceDebate 2008, a petition for a science debate that has [...]

The big loser in last night’s Clinton/Obama debate, at least in the eyes of media critics, was ABC News.
Tom Shales, in the Washington Post, gives a thorough and fair critique of what ABC’s Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos did wrong. Ignoring the aspects that were outside the moderator’s control such as timing and number [...]

Condi Must Go!
Brave New Films has put together a collection of clips and quotes by Condoleezza Rice regarding US policy on torture over the years. This month new information has surfaced that shows that Ms. Rice was blatantly LYING to Congress and the American people.

Greenwald’s organization is asking people to join together to demand [...]

Ron Paul Questions Bernake

This kind of stuff is why Ron Paul drives me nuts. He raises some very serious issues but he does not know when and where to make those points.

On April 7th, James Surowiecki wrote his the New Yorker article Going for Broke:
In recent months, a lot of people have been handed financial get-out-of-jail-free cards. C.E.O.s who presided over billions in losses have walked away with tens of millions in compensation. The Federal Reserve has showered cheap money on banks and brokerages. Even Bear [...]