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Money and Morals

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Feb. 10 (Opinion) - Conservatives have started telling us that the growing inequality is about a decline in morals. But it’s mainly about money.

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Catholic hospitals split on giving contraceptives

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

San Francisco Chronicle - By bottomline@sfchronicle.com (Andrew S. Ross, Chronicle Columnist) - Feb. 06 - Presented By: Chicago Booth Business Forecast Ads by ...

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Breasts Yes, Vaginas No? Race for the Cure Group's Bizarre Capitulation to Right-Wingers (And How to Hit Them Where it Hurts)

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Amanda Marcotte - Feb. 01 (News Report) - Despite Komen’s lame attempts to claim otherwise, it was widely understood that this was about Komen aligning itself with the anti-choice movement, despite the anti-choice movement’s long history of opposing not just safe and legal abortion, but also access to contraception and even the prevention of cervical cancer through the use of the HPV vaccine.

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Nicholas D. Kristof Blog: Melinda Gates Shares Insights From Her Recent Trip to Bangladesh.

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By THE EDITORS - Jan. 12 (Opinion) - Melinda Gates, just back from a trip to Bangladesh, along with Nicholas Kristof, answer readers' questions about the developing world.

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Israeli Girl at Center of Tension Over Religious Extremism

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Isabel Kershner - Dec. 27 (Special Report) - Naama Margolese has become the face of a conflict over the influence of extremists in Israel after her story of being accosted by ultra-Orthodox men was reported in the media.

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Somalia Faces Alarming Rise in Rapes of Women and Girls

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jeffrey Gettleman - Dec. 27 (Special Report) - With the famine putting hundreds of thousands of women on the move, more rapes are being reported now in Somalia than at any time in recent memory.

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Nearly one in five U.S. women has been raped, new federal survey finds

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Rob Stein - Dec. 14 (News) - In addition, one in four women has been the victim of severe physical violence by an intimate partner, according the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey.

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Kathleen Sebelius Pressed On Plan B Decision By 14 Democratic Senators

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Amanda Terkel - Dec. 14 (News Report) - Fourteen Democratic senators, led by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), sent the Obama administration a letter on Tuesday asking for the scientific basis behind its decision to limit access to emergency contraception. Last week, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius rejected the Food and Drug Administration's conclusion that the Plan B One-Step pill was safe enough to be placed on pharmacy shelves without an age limit. The decision raised eyebrows because HHS has never before overruled the FDA on a drug recommendation. Many reproductive rights groups openly questioned whether the Obama administration was putting electoral politics above sound science ahead of next year's election.

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Op-Ed Columnist: Joining a Dinner in a Muslim Brotherhood Home

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Nicholas D. Kristof - Dec. 07 (Opinion) - For all the international alarm about the Muslim Brotherhood’s rise in Egypt, members say their priority in government isn’t religion. It’s jobs.

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Is capitalism broken... and what is the world going to do to fix it?

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Yvonne Roberts - Nov. 06 (Opinion) - Louise Cooper, Will Hutton, Mark Littlewood, Tanya Paton and William Taylor join a round table discussion on the issues raised by the global Occupy movement T here is no doubt that it has been an extraordinary three weeks. It began with Occupy LSX taking up residence around St Paul's, a protest that exposed the dithering of the Church of England. Occupy LSX has since sparked a remarkable national debate about the kind of society in which we want to live, its priorities and values. In that spirit, the Observer brought together several opposing voices to continue the great debate. Yvonne Roberts So, can capitalism be fixed, Louise? Louise Cooper It's all a question of balance and I think it's moving the pivotal point back a little. Capitalism is clearly the only way that economies work. Capitalism works in the biggest communist state, China. So, as with everything, there needs to be a balance between the returns to those that supply capital and those that supply human capital. Maybe ...

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'Fatty apron' fuels ovary cancer

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Oct. 30 (News) - In 80% of cases, it has spread to this apron, called the omentum, by the time it is diagnosed. The Nature Medicine research found once ovarian cancer cells reach the omentum, they take it over. UK experts said the study was important in aiding understanding of ovarian cancer, the fifth most common cancer in women in the UK. The omentum lies in the upper abdomen near the stomach. It helps support the organs nearby, but it is not essential.

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House Passes H.R. 358, the "Let Women Die" Act of 2011

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - Oct. 14 (News Report) - Yesterday the GOP-led House of Representatives, with the blessings and encouragement of the United States Council of Catholic Bishops and extremist religious groups such as the Family Research Council, passed a bill in a vote of 251 to 172 that would, among other things, allow doctors and hospitals to "exercise their conscience" by letting pregnant women facing emergency medical conditions die.

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The Problem of Media Idiocy: Why Do MSM Media Stars Pretend to Be Stupid?

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Eric Alterman, The Nation - Sep. 19 - People in the upper reaches of the US media think that to do their jobs they must behave like idiots in order to be â€œfairâ€ to the Republicans' idiotic ideas.

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Michele Bachmann says HPV vaccine can cause mental retardation

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson - Sep. 16 (Fact Check) - After criticizing Texas Gov. Rick Perry for mandating a vaccine for school girls, Rep. Michele Bachmann added some scary charges: She claimed to have just met a woman whose daughter suffered mental retardation from the vaccine, that it has "very dangerous consequences" and that it puts "little children's lives at risk." In the CNN/Tea Party Express debate in Tampa on Sept. 12, 2011, Bachmann blasted Perry for mandating a vaccine for school girls to guard against human papilloma virus, or HPV, which can cause cervical cancer. The vaccine can prevent the virus, but the virus is sexually transmitted, which makes ...

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Poll: Obama faces trouble with key voters

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - Aug. 28 - By KEN THOMAS and JENNIFER AGIESTA The Associated Press Published Aug 27, 2011 05:13PM MDT Washington • Whites and women are a re-election problem for President Barack Obama. Younger voters and liberals, too, but to a lesser extent. All are important Democratic constituencies that helped him win the White House in 2008 and whose support he’ll need to keep it next year. An analysis of Associated Press-GfK polls, including the latest survey released last week, shows that Obama has lost ground among all those groups since he took office. The review points to his vulnerabilities and prob... ...

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Almost everything is getting better

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Long Now Foudation - By Kirk Citron - Aug. 10 (News Report) - Last week The Millennium Project released its 02011 State Of The Future report, looking at trends for the past twenty years and projecting ahead for the next decade. (Not the 10,000 year future, but still of interest.) You can read an executive summary of the report here. While the report finds many things to worry about – global warming, terrorism, corruption – overall the trends are surprisingly hopeful, as shown in their chart called “Where we are winning”

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Women! Wikipedia needs you

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Jemima Kiss - Aug. 08 (Special Report) - In a revealing glimpse inside the Wikipedia kimono at its annual conference in Haifa at the weekend, co-founder Jimmy Wales described the typical Wikipedia editor as a 26-year-old geeky male with a PhD. Eventually he'll get married, go on to some other project and leave the site, said Wales. And Wikipedia's own research found that 90% of editors are male. This imbalance has meant that while technology and science are covered comprehensively, other subjects are left wanting. "The main thing is to bring in people of all different backgrounds," Wales told the event, reports the Independent. "If you do that, you increase the knowledge base of the site, which can only be a good thing. At the moment, we are relatively poor in a few areas; for example, biographies of famous women through history and issues surrounding early childcare."

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Hit the Road

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - By K.N.C. - Aug. 02 (Opinion) - The lack of child care was at one point an intentional policy choice—made by the nearly all-male political, bureaucratic and business elite—based on the belief that keeping women at home would support traditional values.

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Bill Maher Calls Michele Bachmann & Sarah Palin Boobs, Jesus Sexist (VIDEO)

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Bill Maher - Jul. 17 (Comedy News) - One thing is abundantly clear: Bill Maher is not afraid of offending you.

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15-Year-Old Girl Faces Life in Prison for a Miscarriage

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Ed Pilkington - Jul. 04 (Special Report) - Rennie Gibbs is accused of murder, but the crime she is alleged to have committed does not sound like an ordinary killing. Yet she faces life in prison in Mississippi over the death of her unborn child.

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Buried bombs take increasingly deadly toll on Afghan civilians

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Laura King - Jul. 03 (News Report) - The United Nations says May was the deadliest month for noncombatants in Afghanistan since it began keeping track five years ago. Civilians have been dying in record numbers as violence ratchets upward across Afghanistan.

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Sheconomics: Why more women on boards boosts company performance

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

significancemagazine.org - By Karen Pine - Jul. 01 (Investigative Report) - How many women does it take to make a company more profitable? Just three. Karen Pine finds a remarkable statistic that is being ignored in city boardrooms worldwide.

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Why Women Have an Advantage in Technology

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Adriana Gardella - Jun. 24 (Interview) - Audrey MacLean describes herself as an accidental technologist, an accidental entrepreneur, and an accidental investor. But at the age of eight, she made at least one plan: She would earn a college scholarship. Ms. MacLean, 59, executed that plan and went on to help start Network Equipment Technologies, which went public in 1987. Later, she was a founder and chief executive of Adaptive. She has given seed financing to numerous successful start-ups including Pure Software (founded by Netflix’s Reed Hastings), AdForce and Selectica.

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1.5 Million Female Walmart Employees Lose Historic Sex Discrimination Case Before Supreme Court

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Jun. 21 (Opinion) - The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed the largest class action lawsuit in history filed by 1.5 million current and former female employees of Wal-Mart, who say they were allegedly paid less and promoted less often than their male counterparts. The Court found women who worked at Wal-Mart did not have enough in common to constitute a “class” in a class action lawsuit. It did not address whether Wal-Mart had discriminated against women, but in writing for the minority in part of the court’s ruling, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote that the “plaintiffs’ evidence, including class members’ tales of their own experiences, suggests that gender bias suffused Wal-Mart’s company culture."

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Why Do We Fight? Blame It on Our Brains.

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Katherine Rosma - Jun. 19 (Opinion) - My husband is smart. Super smart. Like, not only does he devour fat history books, but he can talk about them in an engaging manner that's neither stuffy nor oversimplified. He's good with numbers, too. And he knows the meaning of Latin root words -- a big turn-on to a crossword-puzzle addict like me. (He had me at salve.) love his brain. It's Joe's dominant quadrants I could do without. Recently, I got absolutely walloped by his lower left.

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