Gay and Lesbian Medical Association Healthcare Equality Index - “a joint project of GLMA and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. The HEI provides a quality indicator for healthcare related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, beginning with the hospital industry. The survey foc...

The rocky road to staffing still-vacant government positions suffered a bit of a setback Thursday, as the creamy filling—Dr. Sanjay Gupta, henceforth known as “The Gupta”—of Obama’s team withdrew his name from consideration for the post of surgeon general. Many feel The...

OH NOES, TEEVEE DOCTOR WON’T WORK FOR OBAMA: Whatever happened with what’s-his-name, the CNN doctor character Sanjay Gupta, who was maybe going to join the Obama Administration as Ceremonial Doctor, in January? HE IS NOT DOING IT, THAT’S WHAT (because John Conyers said he couldn...

The Nob Hill Gazette , a San Francisco "society" publication, has come up with a list of area eligibles, including a wife beater and more than one gay man. Hard to be a straight woman here! Which tech industry notables are on the list, and what's the catch with these supposed Silicon Valley catches?...

I hear that Michael Moore is rounding up his nitty boys to ward off any appointment of CNN's Sanjay Gupta as Surgeon General. For a long time I did not know whether the Surgeon General was like Betty Crocker or a real life person. I did finally get my head straight on that. Now after learning they a...

On World News Saturday, during the show’s "A Closer Look" segment, ABC anchor David Muir gave attention to those who question whether CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta has sufficient qualifications to be Barack Obama’s surgeon general. Muir even played a clip of David Letterman poking fun at Gu...

Possibly one of the best talks Ive heard on startups and entrepreneurship. Ashish Gupta illustrated points on how to execute and execute well. His focus was technology startups. A great start to headstart09 on day 2. Ideas are easy but execution is key Outside in vs inside out function a) Pay attent...

Item 1: The host of MSNBC’s Hardball, Chris Matthews, has decided not to join the race for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania. In doing so he has resisted a groundswell of support from hard-of-hearing misogynists throughout the state. Some reports suggested that Matthews was only floating the cam...

I used to kinda like John Conyers (D-Michigan), but his wife's insane (and that says something about him) and he's pretty much a blowhard. Seems like a lot of the older Democrats are, like they're not used to being in a position to follow up on their threats, to wield real power. Today, ...

I have to say, I don’t have an overwhelming positive or negative about the possibility of Dr. Sanjay Gupta as Surgeon General, although I don’t quite have the nice and solid, well-thought-out reasons I like to have for things. I would tend to prefer a person with a public health backgrou...