Of interest (Tue, Sep 14th, 10am)

[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]

The "tax and spend Dems" whom GOP loves to bash just reduced the deficit by 13%
[Crooks and Liars - karoli]

In spite of the stimulus bill, in spite of TARP, in spite of the GM/AIG/Wall Street bailouts, the first Obama budget (2010) has closed the deficit by 13%…

fiscal_policy

The International Monetary Fund Is Not Insane
[Paul Krugman]

And that's a reassuring surprise.

recession

142 Women Enrolled In Grad School Per 100 Men, And Women Outnumber Men In 7 Out Of 11 Fields | DailyMarkets.com
[Daily Markets - Mark Perry]

The Council of Graduate Schools released its annual report today, here are links to the press release and full report. What has been getting the most attention from this year’s report is the fact that women earned a majority of doctoral degrees in the 2009 (50.4%) for the first time ever, see top chart above. By field of study, women earning doctoral degrees outnumbered men in six of the eleven graduate fields…

Men still outnumber women earning doctoral degrees in [the STEM fields.

Three-paragraph article's final paragraph explains why men are oppressed, film at 11. -L]

science gender

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