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Mallard Fillmore’s been running this great series, including these two recent strips:
So I thought I’d check out the article he’s talking about (look closely for the asterisk referencing the article). It’s from U.S. News and World Report, written by John Leo—and it’s got some fascinating data:
A new book, Why Men Earn More by Warren Farrell, goes further, examining a broad array of wage statistics. His conclusion: When reasonable adjustments are made, women earn just as much as men, and sometimes more.
Some of Farrell’s findings: Women are 15 times as likely as men to become top executives in major corporations before the age of 40. Never-married, college-educated males who work full time make only 85 percent of what comparable women earn. Female pay exceeds male pay in more than 80 different fields, 39 of them large fields that offer good jobs, like financial analyst, engineering manager, sales engineer, statistician, surveying and mapping technicians, agricultural and food scientists, and aerospace engineer. A female investment banker’s starting salary is 116 percent of a male’s. Part-time female workers make $1.10 for every $1 earned by part-time males.
Read the whole thing.
Welcome, Hugh Hewitt readers. It was great to meet Hugh at last night’s LA Press Club Event in his honor. I’ve got a post on the event here.
The loathsome Air America is again advocating political assassination:
The audio production came during the opening minutes of “The Randi Rhodes Show” Monday night, according to the Drudge Report.
The announcer said: “A spoiled child is telling us our Social Security isn’t safe anymore, so he is going to fix it for us. Well, here’s your answer, you ungrateful whelp: [audio sound of four gunshots being fired.] Just try it, you little bastard. [audio of gun being cocked].”
Randi Rhodes pretended to be surprised by the clip:
“What is with all the killing?” Rhodes said, laughing, after the clip aired.
But she’s busted, because the last time something like this happened at Air America, it was also on her show, as I noted in a previous post:
...Rock bottom came when [Randi Rhodes] compared Bush and his family to the Corleones in the “Godfather” saga. “Like Fredo, somebody ought to take him out fishing and phuw,” she said, imitating the sound of gunfire.
Note to Randi Rhodes: a) it’s not funny and b) it’s illegal.
But a government source told Drudge, “Even joking about shooting the president is a crime, let alone doing it on national radio … we are taking this very seriously.”
IN RELATED NEWS, Air America’s ratings are its lowest ever.
National Review Editor Rich Lowry: It is time to say it unequivocally: We are winning in Iraq.
Info is being recovered from the laptop of terrorist leader Zarqawi, who narrowly escaped capture.
The data in his computer reveals Zarqawi is directing scores of fanatics from Yemen, Saudi Arabia and other Arab states who volunteered for “martyrdom” missions in Iraq and other countries, sources said.
“The information has given us new insight into the scope of his operations outside of Iraq that we did not know about previously,” a U.S. intelligence official familiar with the analysis told the Post.
The official said new secret counterterror operations have been launched by the CIA and intelligence services of other countries as a result of information in his laptop.
Sources said the computer files also yielded recent communications with al Qaeda leaders, including a message from bin Laden’s No. 2 man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in which he urged Zarqawi to expand his operations outside Iraq to include attacks on Americans in the United States.
From Left to Right: Patterico, Roger L. Simon, Mickey Kaus, Mark ‘Armed Liberal’ Danziger, Guest of Honor Hugh Hewitt, and Event Co-Organizer (with Amy Alkon, not pictured) Cathy Seipp.
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At tonight’s LA Press Club event for Hugh Hewitt, Hugh, Roger L. Simon and Mark Danziger announced the forthcoming blog network, Pajamas Media. “Pajamas Media will not be about creating content and having an editorial voice—but about finding voices that are out there and giving them an infrastructure,” said Danziger. Pajamas Media will offer one spot where advertisers can buy space on the entire blogosphere. Participation is anticipated by some of the biggest sites in the ‘sphere. All bloggers are welcome to join by emailing join@pajamasmedia.com. They’re very busy putting this together, so if you email with questions, be patient.
Other highlights of the event: Hugh discussed the possible collapse of major newspapers, comparing the LA Times in particular to the Titanic, which was “the leading form of mass transportation—right up until the moment it hit the iceberg.” Hugh generously offered Bob Sipchen of the LA Times a chance to speak in rebuttal. Bob noted that an organization of reporters is different from a weblog, and that such organizations will continue to be needed.
And Mickey Kaus extemporized a rip-roaring speech (pictured) regarding the LA Times, saying “It would be a tragedy if the newspapers went out of business. It would not be a tragedy if the LA Times went out of business.”
