James Dobson: WWJF?
By Kay Steiger - Nov 20th, 2008 at 4:39 pmThis is a pretty funny video making fun of the fact that Focus on the Family is laying off 200 employees after sinking $500,000 into…
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Obama: Gym Rat
By Kay Steiger - Nov 20th, 2008 at 3:15 pmPresident-elect Barack Obama may be our healthiest president ever (well, except for that whole smoking thing), since, as Mike Scherer stalks reports in a post…
Is Culinary School Worth It?
By Kay Steiger - Nov 19th, 2008 at 6:29 pmIt’s Top Chef season again. I’ll be making my friends some yummy food tonight while we watch the second episode. This season my favorite chef…
The RIAA Is Evil
By Kay Steiger - Nov 19th, 2008 at 5:55 pmJesse notes that Tennessee’s universities are forced to spend millions on anti-pirating software even though they’re expecting to increase tuition and lay off teachers. As…
Focus on the Family Lays Off Employees
By Kay Steiger - Nov 19th, 2008 at 3:23 pmIt seems that James Dobson’s organization, Focus on the Family, is laying off more than 200 people–about 20 percent of the organization–after the organization sank…
Rule on Women and Health Care Access to be Finalized
By Kay Steiger - Nov 18th, 2008 at 3:22 pmThe really awful proposed rule that Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Levitt is trying to push through in his last few weeks of public…
Race-blind Admissions Aren’t Real
By Kay Steiger - Nov 18th, 2008 at 1:46 pmInside Higher Ed has a great piece today summarizing Timothy Groseclose’s study on the illusion of race-blind admissions. Oftentimes students make references to things in…
Wanted: Geekettes
By Kay Steiger - Nov 18th, 2008 at 1:10 pmThere’s an interesting piece in The New York Times today about the lack of women in computer science. While women are actually starting to approach…
Obama on the Supreme Court
By Kay Steiger - Nov 17th, 2008 at 1:22 pmThe LA Times had a speculative piece this weekend on who President-elect Barack Obama would choose to nominate for the Supreme Court if a vacancy…
Sarah Haskins on Car Commercials
By Kay Steiger - Nov 14th, 2008 at 6:08 pmThis isn’t as funny as some of her other ones, but Sarah Haskins mocks car commercials this week:
Single Mothers Drop in College Attendance
By Kay Steiger - Nov 14th, 2008 at 2:48 pmWell, here’s yet another complication to Bill Clinton’s welfare reform. Changes in welfare policy during the 1990s put the incentive on welfare recipients to work,…
Dan Savage Blames Old People, Not Black People, for Passing Prop 8
By Kay Steiger - Nov 12th, 2008 at 5:02 pmDan Savage appeared on the Colbert Report last night, blaming old people for the passage of Proposition 8 and suggesting gays “soak up” the men…
Mommabama
By Kay Steiger - Nov 12th, 2008 at 2:24 pmRebecca Traister has a good look in Salon at the public’s perception of Michelle Obama as First Lady. The media is already eager to paint…
Keith Olbermann Has Opinions on Prop 8
By Kay Steiger - Nov 11th, 2008 at 2:30 pmLast night Keith Olbermann made the case for same-sex marriage in California and condemned the voters who voted “yes” on Prop 8.
Obama Plans to Overturn the Global Gag Rule
By Kay Steiger - Nov 11th, 2008 at 2:00 pmIn one of the most significant changes on sexual and reproductive health from the Bush administration, advisers to President-elect Barack Obama said yesterday he plans…
