From NASA: This new animation of NOAA’s GOES-East satellite imagery shows the movement of winter storms from January 1 to March 24 making for a snowier-than-normal winter along the U.S. East coast and Midwest.
“Listen, Caitlin. You’re not dead ass broke with a bleak future that we will do absolutely nothing to improve. Why not think of yourself as Bohemian instead? I mean, Nicole Kidman seemed to be having a great time in ‘Moulin Rouge’!”
The Article: Obama Is More Fiscally Conservative Than Reagan by Joe Weisenthal in Business Insider.
The Text: Why isn’t the economy surging?
Because we’re still running a policy of government austerity.
This chart, via our friend Matt Busigin, shows that at this point in his Presidency, Reagan was running a deficit as a % of GDP that’s higher than what Obama is today.
The Article: “Lean In” Guru Sheryl Sandberg Wants to Ban the Word Bossy… As If there Weren’t Larger Problems to Address by Tiny Dupuy in AlterNet.
The Text: “Lean In” Author and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s campaign to cheer young girls to participate launched last week. Sandberg claims little boys get called leaders and for the same behavior little girls are branded as bossy. “Together we can encourage girls to lead. Pledge to Ban Bossy,” reads the site.
It’s only a word that’s keeping women from leadership?
What happens the first time these imagined little girls get called something truly awful? “You know, some people think of you as an inspiring female attorney and mother. Other people think of you as the overbearing yuppie wife from hell. How would you describe yourself?” That’s what a reporter asked Hillary Clinton—when she wasn’t actually running for office—on the campaign trail in 1992. Bossy is one of the nicer things Hillary gets called.
Uganda? Anti-gay laws that can imprison homosexuals for life? No, we didn’t have any part of that – said every Evangelical Christian who has propagated bigoted fictions to Ugandans in positions of power.
