Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a read more

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of read more

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.

This is politics, raw and urgent,

This is politics, raw and urgent,

The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. read more

The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. The Spanish people knew they were not fighting alone.

Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, read more

Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took.

Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously.

Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously.

I have been fielding quite a few calls about Apple's filing of the 'Mobile Me' patent. Folks have been speculating read more

I have been fielding quite a few calls about Apple's filing of the 'Mobile Me' patent. Folks have been speculating about a phone from Apple for more than a year. Being that I am a wireless analyst, I don't follow Apple as closely as others do. What I do know though, is that we are not likely to know until Apple wants us to know. They are pretty good at big surprises. Do I think they are developing a phone? Probably. Probably somewhere in their labs, there are prototypes of phones. Whether or not they bring one to market commercially is another story. Whether or not they will do so on their own is another open question. Hard to imagine carrier subsidies on a device unless there are revenues to be earned through downloaded services and content.

I don't think this is anything against Congressman Kolbe. They, (the gay Republicans -- including members of the Log Cabin read more

I don't think this is anything against Congressman Kolbe. They, (the gay Republicans -- including members of the Log Cabin group), are trumpeting an agenda that they want the certain rights.

That's not the policy or the way we operate public affairs at NASA. We support and make sure we are read more

That's not the policy or the way we operate public affairs at NASA. We support and make sure we are all about full and open communications.