Link Farm #2--Things To Make You Blub and/or SMASH!

(1) Obama Creates White House Council On Women & Girls
I sign this order not just as a president, but as a son, as a grandson, a husband and a father,” Obama told a mostly female audience of activists and lawmakers in the East Room of the White House. “I saw my grandmother work her way up to become one of the first women bank vice presidents in the state of Hawaii, but I also saw how she hit a glass ceiling—how men no more qualified than she was kept moving up the corporate ladder ahead of her.

(2)[Asshat]Virginia Man Pays $350 Electric Bill In Pennies
Rather than get upset about his $350 electric bill, John Almany found a unique way to pay it — in pennies. Almany said he and his brother Gary came up with the idea in January. After finding enough banks to supply the pennies, Almany delivered more than 29,000 to Bristol Virginia Utilities.

Why that dude is an asshat:
"A couple of weeks ago, someone decided to clear my desk for me (she was mad about her service). People have stolen markers off my coworkers’ desks and written “[Company] sucks” on their desk space while their backs were turned. I’ve been threatened with knives and other physical and sexual violence, I’ve been called every name but my own, and had people cheer a customer on when she’d pushed me to the point I was so frustrated I cried. Behavior like this is normal in my line of work. I am paid to not only take your money, but to take your abuse."