I love the way, whenever anyone tries to do anything good, Republican leaders start shoutin' "It's bad for business!!!" As though that were the sole and only important thing, trumping all other considerations in this world.

Too bad so many legislators listen to them.

Calif. Unveils Anti-Global Warming Plan

Some heartening research:

"The committee also reviewed information about patterns of doctorates awarded to women and to individuals from racial/ethnic minority groups relative to the 'scholarly quality of program faculty.' Overall, the committee found essentially no relationship between 'quality' and patterns of enrollment and degree attainment for women. Although top-rated programs in most fields enroll and graduate many more students on average than lower-rated programs, women tend to be represented in the same percentages across quality groupings within a field. An exception appears to be certain subfields of Engineering in which top-rated programs are slightly more likely than lower-rated programs to enroll and graduate women. However, the total fraction of women remains quite low in those fields in comparison to other fields included in this study. "

Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States: Continuity and Change (1995)

Oh gross! I thought we already figured out that plunking kids in front of televisions was, ermn, less preferable than perhaps just teaching them to behave in public.

Publix Testing TV Karts for Kids

Hey, Democrats! Here's an Iraq strategy for you: Get our military out of there, as that's obviously inciting some anger. Take some of that money we're currently spending on troops and weapons, and use it to help them re-build their infrastructure. And then let them run their own country, instead of implicitly assuming that they're children, and need our help. Just a thought. But then, what do I know?

House Incumbents at Risk, Poll Finds

Sketch, sketch, sketch! Republicans are dastardly, man. They give me nightmares. Literally. The kind that make me wake up in a panic.

An Estate Tax Twist Reverses Party Roles On Minimum Wage