Injustice and jury selection
The jury box in the Pershing County, Nevada courthouse.
(Ken Lund/Wikimedia)
Growing up, I seem to remember being taught or hearing the phrase about a right to a trial by a "jury of your peers." I didn't know then that nowhere in the constitution are...
Safeway’s general counsel tells hilarious sexist joke at annual shareholder meeting
Everyone knows that opening a meeting with a joke is a great icebreaker. And at the annual meeting of Safeway Inc.'s shareholders, Senior Vice President and General Counsel Robert Gordon opened with a real knee-slapper:
You know, this is the season wh...
When your pharmacist is allowed to tell you ‘no’
It should make you really angry. This makes me see red. I am pissed off, not for myself, but for any woman who is now faced with having her trust in an institution that is part of our primary health care system betrayed.
We go to a doctor for our heal...
Scott Brown shores up ‘regular guy’ cred with some good, old fashioned sexism
Scott Brown, back in his "regular guy" pickup again.
Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) is back to trying to do the "common man" thing again, but is actually mostly just succeeding at skeezy.
The road yesterday took Brown to the Blue Hills Brewery in Canton, wh...
Wisconsin state senator: Discrimination doesn’t exist because women don’t want equal pay
Wisconsin state Sen. Glenn Grothman (left) with Gov. Scott Walker
What kind of mind pushes the repeal of Wisconsin's Equal Pay Enforcement Act? We know a fair amount about how Gov. Scott Walker, who signed the repeal into law as quietly as possible l...
Gender gap: Female chief financial officers paid less than their male counterparts
A new analysis of salaries of chief financial officers at large companies finds that female CFOs, of whom there were only 150 out of more than 1,900, earned an average of $1.32 million in total compensation. That is a whole lot of money—top 1 percen...
Rush Limbaugh’s nopology widely seen for just another insult
What Rush Limbaugh's nopology
is really about.
I don't apologize. Ever. Of course, it helps that I'm never wrong. —Rush Limbaugh, 2009
But he does do fake apologies, or rather "nopologies."
Apparently, the bully from Cape Girardeau thought he...
Mitt Romney’s bold take on Limbaugh: ‘Not the language I would have used’
Um, what now?
On ropeline @mittromney re #Rush Limbaugh "it's not the language I would have used" -Bain capital owns Clear Channel radio Rush employer
— @mitchellreports via web
So he's had all day to come up with something, and "not the language ...
Committee Chair Darrell Issa blames Democrats for Limbaugh’s ‘slut’ attacks
Issa's now-infamous hearing; apparently women should have no say in birth control issues.
When it comes to defending Rush Limbaugh and his attacks on a college student who had the audacity to testify at a hearing, thus earning multiple days of nameca...
