Gail Collins On Colbert: The Pill Is Why We Have So Many Female Lawyers

by Glynnis MacNicol | 12:23 pm, October 28th, 2009

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Our favorite book author Gail Collins stopped by to talk to (what felt like a nicely subdued) Stephen Colbert last night about her new book ‘When Everything Changed.’ According to Collins one of the major problems we face today is that “half the workforce is female now, and we still haven’t figured out who’s supposed to take care of the kids.” Collins also recounts the story of the newlywed who arrived at New York traffic court in 1960 to pay her boss’s parking ticket and was thrown out by the judge because she was wearing slacks. Yes that is a true story. For his part Colbert seems especially struck by the fact that in 1960 there were airline flights reserved exclusively for men…the only women on board were the stewardesses, who would bend over to light the passengers complimentary cigars.

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AFP’s Tim Phillips Defends Protest Where Sick Man Was Heckled

by Drew Grant | 11:07 pm, Thursday

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After disturbing video emerged earlier this week from an anti-health reform rally where angry protesters screamed in the face of a sitting man who wore a sign identifying that he had Parkinson's disease (and supported the reform bill) MSNBC's Hardball brought on Tim Phillips, head of the grassroots organization Americans For Prosperity, which held the event. While Phillips condemned the actions of those individuals who berated the apparently disabled man, but said that it did not reflect most of his party's "civil" attitude during the Columbus protest.

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Scott Brown On House Health Care Bill: “The Biggest Problem…Is Its Lack Of Transparency”

by Drew Grant | 8:13 pm, Thursday

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Last night when Chris Matthews discussed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's idea of a "Deem and Pass" to get the health reform bill pushed through Congress, his main concern was that it would open up Democrats to criticism of using evasive tactics. And he wasn't wrong: Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown was on The Situation Room tonight, already chomping at the bit to discuss the "backroom deals....political chicanery and parliamentary maneuvers" that the House majority was using to "ram this bill through."

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