This weekend, hanjuuluver came over for an afternoon of cookie baking and ridiculous j-dramas. I'm all caught up on Ouran, but when we checked dramacrazy we realized that there's a remake of the Korean drama You're Beautiful airing right now, so we decided to check it out ( Read more... )

Mine signed into law the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which disallows discrimination in pay based on gender. Yes, women still get paid less than men - especially educated women working in professional fields. But now it will be that much harder for them to do so.

We can't stop fighting for women's rights yet, but that's one less battle. I'm so proud ( Read more... )

Has everyone seen this article yet? To sum up briefly: the Bush Administration is pushing to require that recipients of aid for federal health programs agree not to refuse to hire people who (nurses etc) who object to abortion. Understandable, sort of, if morally questionable.

HOWEVER. They explicitly define abortion as anything that terminates the ( Read more... )