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[31 Jan 2009 | Comments Off | ]
Women: Do They Ever Shut Up?

On Thursday, President Obama signed his first bill into law: The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.  I’m actually incredibly happy about this bill, which only makes sense and ensures that the spirit of the Equal Pay Act is upheld.  Rather than a person only having 6 months to bring a lawsuit after the pay discrimination decision is made-whether or not a person is aware of the pay discrepancy-the statute of limitations begins after the last check is issued.  And after an election where there was no short amount of sexism, …

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[13 Dec 2008 | 2 Comments | ]

The webcomic “Sheldon,” has been doing a series of strips called, “Questionable Moments from ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’” which has been pretty good overall. (Sheldon is fairly hilarious overall-I encourage you to read it if you don’t.) Sadly, though, these series has now ended, and he has missed the most questionable moment of all: when we learn what’s happened to Mary.
Towards the end of George’s lesson, when he’s realizing how truly awful everything would be if he’d never been born, he has a horrible thought. Mary! …