http://www.spacefem.com/feministoftheday/viewfem.php?id=44

• http://www.cortland.edu/gilman/
• http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/gilman1.html
• http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/gilman.html

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/255533/november-06-2009/recap---week-of-11-2-09

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/255413/november-05-2009/11-5-09-in--60-seconds

http://feeds.sfgate.com/click.phdo?i=35b990f6ec66df4cdee2ec6b951c1b12

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/255185/november-05-2009/on-notice-dead-to-me---canadian-iceholes

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/255184/november-05-2009/guy-fawkers

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/255186/november-05-2009/cheating-death---swine-flu-scam-detector---vaxaconda

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/255187/november-05-2009/william-bratton

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/255188/november-05-2009/sign-off---donate-to-u-s--speedskating

As I type this, Halifax is getting its first snowfall of the season.

To me, this is “Yay! snow!”

To Don, this is “Well, I guess I’m not going out anymore until spring.”

We live in a really shite neighbourhood for snow-clearing. Although our landlord is excellent about keeping the snow and ice off the area in front of our building, there are two places on either side of us that aren’t. One is a business, so I’m not sure what’s up there. The other is a private residence, and there’s a variety of reasons that could be happening, including that the person living there may have a disability and/or be a senior and be unable to clear their walks.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/11/homebuyer-tax-credit-new-housing-bubble

Though the deeply divided Congress can't seem to agree on much these days, the House and Senate did manage to come together this week, with nearly unanimous votes, to extend an $8,000 first-time home-buyer tax credit. But among economists of various political persuasions, there's widespread agreement on the Obama-backed bill: It's a horrible policy that could wind up prolonging, if not worsening, the housing crisis.

"When governments at the state and local level are cutting back funding for everything from preschool education to nursing home care, the federal government is sending $8,000 checks" to home buyers who don't need assistance, says Dean Baker, the codirector of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. "It might be possible to develop a more warped economic policy, but it would not be easy." Mark Calabria, the director of financial regulation studies at the libertarian Cato Institute and a former Republican staffer on the Senate banking committee, agrees. "This is something where despite bipartisan opposition to it from experts, there seems to be massive bipartisan support for it on Capitol Hill," he says.

Ted Gayer of the centrist Brookings Institute issued what one CNN blogger described as a "smackdown" of the credit. Simon Johnson, the former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, and James Kwak, who writes a Washington Post column with Johnson, have called the credit "throwing good money after bad." And conservatives—Kevin Hassett, the director of economic policy studies at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, and Ronald Utt, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, have penned pieces slamming the home-buyer credit. Even the Obama-aligned Center for American Progress got in the act; Andrew Jakabovics, the think tank's associate director for housing and economics, criticized the credit's extension on National Public Radio.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2009/11/steven-chu-smart-grid

President Barack Obama likes to point out that when President Dwight Eisenhower built the federal highway system in the 1950s, he created a network that fueled postwar America’s economic rise. Now Obama’s administration wants to do the same for the green economy with the smart grid—a system of interlocking technologies that could transform the way we use electricity. By receiving real-time data on their energy use, consumers could save big on their power bills by running appliances when electricity is cheapest, rather than during peak demand periods when it’s most expensive. Power distributors could use the system to transport excess energy from one region to another, instead of simply allowing it to go to waste as they do now. The bottom line of such efficiency measures? The US would need to build far fewer new coal-fired power plants.