I do not care. I do not, do not, do not care. Caring, in this circumstance, I will not do. I am right out of damns, sh*ts, f&^#s, and any other expletive, to give. I am living my life to the total exclusion of how all of this will work out. I have considered the… Read More The Government Shutdown Criszzzzzzzzzzzzzzz….
Because, homophobia. You are not alone in criticizing those who oppose gay rights, but a man killing opponents does not change the opponents’ minds. It does not open their hearts. It does not bring about gay rights. If anything, it makes opponents more entrenched. If anything, it feeds whatever moral arsenal they perceive to fight… Read More Sympathetic Judge Gives Political Terrorist Lighter Sentence
The system mostly exists to perpetuate itself. And here’s the closest thing there is to a placebo: The achievement gap between black and white, rich and poor is not due to lack of money. It largely comes down to a vocabulary gap, which means a knowledge gap, because words name things. Perhaps you’ve heard of the 30… Read More Six Lies Most People Believe About U.S. Schools | The Federalist
“The Lid”: EXCLUSIVE Transcript of Strange Pre-Filibuster Ted Cruz/Harry Reid Conversation.
Old, but worth the read. The Campus Rape Myth by Heather Mac Donald, City Journal Winter 2008.
Every time this happens, the gun controllers seize the commanding heights of moral authority. “Can we finally now do something to stop the violence?” They say. Can we finally pass “sensible,” “reasonable,” gun laws? How many more have to die? So they rush out to fill the void of knowledge with wishcasting and devil-chasing, because they know that… Read More Poor Gun Controllers: They Just Can’t Help Themselves
So according to a new book, one of the guys currently in jail for the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard was tweaked to the eyeballs on meth, and had been for five days. And apparently Matthew Shephard was a meth dealer (among other things). I rather think this complicates the “Ew, a Gay!” motivation that… Read More “Now That We Have All The Hate Crime Legislation, We Can Tell The Truth About Matthew Shepard.”
Vladimir Putin seized, or received, or something, power from Boris Yeltsin on the last day of the 20th century. The 1990’s had been a dreadful time for Russia, and Putin has seemed hell-bent on restoring power and strength to the Motherland. While it may be overstating matters to claim that his New York Times Op-Ed… Read More The Triumph of Vladimir Putin
Good article, as one expects from McArdle, even when you don’t always agree with her. Never having been to business school, nor any kind of school at Harvard, I can’t dispute anything she discusses here. But on average, the women I talk to just aren’t nearly as willing to sacrifice close friendships, and family relationships,… Read More Megan McArdle on the Choices Women Make
Like guerrilla warfare, all political protests aim at substituting concentration and passion for actual numbers. The idea is to pretend that your opinions are entirely mainstream, even though they’re so far removed from the mainstream that you have to organize a protest to express them. Of course, if your “protest” involves nothing more than saying… Read More When You Slutwalk in Public, the Public Also Slutwalks in You
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