- Not Leveling with Viewers | Talking Points Memo • by Josh Marshall
- …the conventions of journalistic ‘objectivity’, as currently defined, frequently make journalists violate their biggest duty, which is honesty with readers. The top headline running now on CNN reads: “They’re all talking, but no one is compromising, at least publicly. Democratic and GOP leaders appear unwilling to bend on proposals to raise the debt ceiling.”
- By any reasonable measure, this is simply false, even painfully so. …
- The current offer from Sen. Reid (D-NV)…is more dramatic and Republican-leaning than what Speaker Boehner was demanding a few months ago…
- The real driver of the debate is that the fact that Republican majority in the House can’t agree to win. … Their leaders cannot control their caucuses. …
- Yes, at some level it’s a game of chicken. … But to really get what’s going on you’ve got to understand one key point: one of the two cars doesn’t have a driver in it.
- The Guilty Parties – NYTimes.com – Paul Krugman
- There’s actually a simple way to resolve the debt ceiling crisis: …
- This would, however, probably be the end of these Republicans’ political careers. …
- If you believe that default will quite possibly be a catastrophe — and leading Republicans probably do believe that — their unwillingness to take [action] means that they are risking America’s future rather than pay a price in their personal political careers. That’s cowardice on an epic scale…
- The Cost of Being Female: How Much the Average Woman Spends on a Lifetime of Basic Health Care | GOOD • by Nona Willis Aronowitz
- The Institute of Medicine has named eight preventive services that women should get for free under the new health care law. Exactly how much money are we talking about? GOOD took stock of the money spent by a “typical” American woman whose sexual health and life choices correlated with the national averages. …
- Whatever The Outcome Of The Debt Vote, The Age Of Austerity Is Here | Talking Points Memo • by Thomas Lane
- Whatever the outcome of Thursday’s projected House vote on Speaker Boehner’s debt plan, this process has already ended the political life of one prominent member of the Washington establishment: John Maynard Keynes.
- True, Keynes died in 1946. But his ghost hovered over America’s economic debate until pretty much Monday night. At that time, in their ostensibly dueling speeches, both President Obama and House Speaker Boehner embraced the language of “austerity” and performed an unwitting exorcism.
- Normalizing Female Computer Programmers in the ’60s | Sociological Images • by Gwen Sharp
- Today, the field of computer science is heavily male-dominated — men earn the vast majority of undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees in the field. But this wasn’t always true. …
- This article appeared in a 1967 issue of Cosmopolitan and quotes computer scientist Dr. Grace Hopper, a pioneer in the field, discussing why programming is a perfect fit for women — by drawing partly on gender stereotypes by assuming women are “naturals” at programming because they’re patient and pay attention to details:…
- Infrastructure Maintenance Alone Could Put Millions to Work | Firedoglake • by David Dayen
- …There are pipes like this all over America, and we could employ a million people to fix them. We could employ a million more to fix crumbling schools, or roads, or bridges. …
- Investing in maintenance now would save trillions over time, and put enough people back to work to increase consumer spending, grow the economy and lower the deficit through increased tax revenues.
- [THIS. THIS IS WHAT I AM SAYING. -L]
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