Funny thing, I’ve debated this issue about the pay gap for the past 15 years or so. This article is an interesting read–and it made me chuckle how a couple of the excuses that you always hear were brought to attention in this short article.
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April 18, 2007
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9642178
Kathy Sierra was threatened (and feared for her life) after calling for a bloggers code of conduct. The story is above, but what got me curious was this code of conduct. I found one such proposed code on Tim O’Reilly’s website. Take a second to check it out. I think a self imposed code like this would make the internet a lot friendlier place. Especially in disagreements.
1)Take responsibility not just for your own words, but for the comments you allow on your blog.
2)Label your tolerance level for abusive comments.
3)Consider eliminating anonymous comments.
4)Ignore the trolls.
5)Take the conversation offline, and talk directly, or find an intermediary who can do so.
6)If you know someone who is behaving badly, tell them so.
7)Don’t say anything online that you wouldn’t say in person.
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April 17, 2007
Yesterday after work, as I arrived home, my roommates were watching tv with an expression of pure grimness on their faces. My roommate’s boyfriend was with him–he graduated from Virginia Tech a few years ago and of all of us, the tragedy hit him the hardest. Today, the day after it unfolded there’s blame evident on the tv, the internet the radio. The media is wondering whether the school officials did everything they could, students are wondering why they weren’t evacuated sooner, which is all human nature to find a reason, a motive, a scapegoat perhaps. The usual namepointing about guns and that “republicans are to blame” has already begun.
However, at this point, I’m just taking a moment for the victims and the families they left behind. I think its too soon to worry about motive,about why–there’ll be plenty of that in the next couple of weeks. The shooter was named, and yes I feel for his family also. They live in the same county that I reside and I can’t imagine what they’re going through either.
April 5, 2007
NPR did a really cool tribute to Eunice Kennedy Shriver and her work for and behalf of the mentally handicapped. Love or hate the Kennedy’s, this is worth checking out (and maybe even leaving behind your feelings about Chappaquiddick):
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9136962
April 2, 2007
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March 31, 2007
“Armageddon is not exactly a foreign policy.”
–Madeline Albright on The Colbert Report.
March 30, 2007
I’ve been meaning to blog about one of my Senators for the past couple of days but my main squeeze stole Webb’s thunder for the time being. My Boyfriend, Karl Rove, was in rare form Wednesday night at the annual Radio and Television Correspondents Association Dinner. Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood of Whose Line is it anyway, cajoled Rove up on stage where he told jokes and rapped (I’m not making this up). He was asked by Mochrie and Sherwood what he likes to do in his spare time, “Tear the tops off of small animals,” and then was led by the two actors in a rap song where he played a rapper named, “MC Rove.” Apparently the video is must-see bordering on the cringe factor and outright hysterical. I haven’t seen it yet, but click here to watch:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2007/03/rove_raps_at_radiotv_follies.html
March 29, 2007
Tom DeLay was interviewed last week on NPR. I found the interview fascinating…in the way that watching an impending (or in his case past) train wreck fascinating. I’m not going to editorialize on this…I think DeLay’s words more than speak for themselves. This is an excerpt from the interview. Check out the whole interview here:
The K Street Strategy
DeLay: For 40 years, if you were an organization or company who hired lobbyists, you wanted to hire people who had access to the people in power, so you hired Democrats. And K Street was overwhelmingly Democratic.
Inskeep: Every firm would have republicans though of course.
DeLay: Yeah, but they were all tokens and we started the effort to convince people that if you wanted to bring your petition to the government you should bring somebody that believes the same things we do.
Inskeep:You said you weren’t going to meet with a lot of democrats specifically.
DeLay: I didn’t. I didn’t[meet with Democrats]
Inskeep: You said go hire a Republican and send him to me.
DeLay: Why would I meet with the enemy? Why would I meet with somebody that wanted to make me the minority whip and keep me from being the majority whip?
Inskeep: Somebody might say because he’s an American with an interest? DeLay: He’s not an American with my interest or the interest of the agenda we’re trying to promote From his book:
One more thing: Because liberals and the press are influenced by socialism’s hatred of the private sector, they speak of business people and corporations like they are the evil empire. Not only is this a silly lie that defies history and reason, the vital truth is that a congressman is sworn to represent the people in private industry just as surely as he is public school teachers and policemen. Not only should we be thankful for what the private sector has accomplished in this country, we should start recognizing that those who work in that sector have a right to political representation also. A close look at their spending on political lobbying will reveal that they actually spend less than labor unions do to achieve their political goals.
