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more about #angelamerkel more comments β Pessimippopotamus: I'd rather have them put this up. more » Everything MidnightBikeRide does is a balloon.: Uh, greenpeace? I think you ripped off the wrong Shepard Fairey image. Seriously, those eyes are ominous. more » Cunning_Linguist: Obama-izing Merkel is cool and all, but I think black, red, and yellow are not so conducive to feelings of inspiration and hope. more » Tippi Hedren: Outrage! This is totally phot0-shopped. more » token_illiterate_commenter: For a second I thought you were doing more West Wing stuff and this was a poster of Stockard Channing. more » futuremouse: Kinda makes her look like a sith lord. more » Aaron Martin-Colby: I'm also wondering if the list is meant to attract some female readers, and unlike males, females don't care about what other females are earning. The... more » morninggloria: MAYBE they use the "influence" metric because it hasn't been mainstream for women to work for as long as it's been mainstream for men to work and accu... more » hfree: I'm thinking part of the reason why they don't measure pay in this list is because many of the women mentioned, despite being high achievers on their ... more » RubyPenelope: What drives me crazy is that I still know so many people (mostly baby boomer aged men) who don't believe there is really a wage gap. They think it all... more » SarahMC: Hmph. They measure it in "influence" because our pay does not reflect our true influence. It's almost a way to compensate for the fact that we're no... more » Yahtzii: Eeeew, I hope that we're not using Twitter as a beacon of influence now. Because then it would be all hail President Ashton Kutcher, with Vice Preside... more » dummyfakeroller: I have so much trouble keeping track of the forbes list. Most powerful, most influential, top earning women, top earning men, top earning celebritie... more » EarlyGrey: I think this has less to do with a wage gap than it does with the history of women in the workforce. I think you'd find that the majority of the world... more » NefariousNewt: How many female writers/editors/executives does Forbes have? That might be a good place to start. more » -
#moneypowerrespect
Why Does Forbes Measure Women's Influence, Not Wealth?
Forbes magazine loves to track the wealthy. It has lists dedicated to billionaires, top earning CEOs, and top-earning dead celebrities. So why, when it comes to the new list about women, have editors decided to use the vague metric "influence?"
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#newsat10
Obama Will Visit Concentration Camp, Draw No Parallels To American Behavior
- Barack Obama, after his meeting with Angela Merkel, will visit the ruins of the Buchenwald concentration camp. He will likely not compare our re-purposing of Abu Ghraib to the Russian's post-war re-purposing of Buchenwald for political prisoners. [UPI, Huffington Post]
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#leftovers
Issue of Vegan Pets Divides Vets, Owners β’Β In The Works: Woodstock, 2009
β’ Some vegan pet owners have begun feeding their animals vegan diets, because "living with a tiny carnivore" was too disturbing. Veterinarians remain skeptical. β’ More » -
