I'm told that Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis will step aside soon, making her the fifth member of the administration to leave the Cabinet (or announce her deparature) since the election. Only two of these departures—Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner—are white and male. Lisa Jackson, who's leaving the Environmental Protection Agency, is African-American, and Solis is the first Hispanic woman to take charge of Labor.
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them."- Galileo Galilei