YES, AND THAT WAS ONE OF THE GOALS: “Has feminism made it much harder for lower class men to do well in life?”
As the Insta-Wife notes in her new book, Men On Strike, people shouldn’t be surprised by the response.
Archive for 2013
May 23, 2013
THAT’S OKAY, I’M SURE HE’LL DO A FINE JOB OF INVESTIGATING HIMSELF PER OBAMA’S INSTRUCTIONS: Holder Ok’d Search Warrant For Fox News Reporter’s Private Emails.
Meanwhile, Roger Ailes responds:
The recent news about the FBI’s seizure of the phone and email records of Fox News employees, including James Rosen, calls into question whether the federal government is meeting its constitutional obligation to preserve and protect a free press in the United States. We reject the government’s efforts to criminalize the pursuit of investigative journalism and falsely characterize a Fox News reporter to a Federal judge as a “co-conspirator” in a crime. I know how concerned you are because so many of you have asked me: why should the government make me afraid to use a work phone or email account to gather news or even call a friend or family member? Well, they shouldn’t have done it. The administration’s attempt to intimidate Fox News and its employees will not succeed and their excuses will stand neither the test of law, the test of decency, nor the test of time. We will not allow a climate of press intimidation, unseen since the McCarthy era, to frighten any of us away from the truth.
Read the whole thing at the link.
STOP ME BEFORE I KILL AGAIN: Obama pledges to rein in drone use, close Guantanamo.
UPDATE: Questions: “So what the hell just happened? A big deal or almost nothing? I assume Obama wanted to appease the doves, but are they appeased and, more important, should they be appeased? I feel like TPM doesn’t even know what to think. When I heard Obama’s articulation of the drone policy, I thought it sounded like he was trying to say something that the left would like, but that in fact he reserved for himself all the power he needed to do anything he wanted to do, that is, that nothing had changed.”
Here’s a transcript.
WAR ON SCIENCE: Joe Williams Fudges Weather Fact. There’s no IQ test for these talking-head positions.
WHO DOESN’T LIKE FRIED CHICKEN? Why remarks about race and fried chicken elicit such raw feelings.
But here’s a tip: If you have to have taken Race & Gender Studies 101 to undrstand why something is racist, it’s not racist.
I HOPE THIS PANS OUT: Vitamin C kills drug-resistant TB in lab tests.
MOSTLY SAVAGE: Are Savages Noble?
“It may astonish you readers, as it initially astonished me,” Diamond writes, “to learn that trench warfare, machine guns, napalm, atomic bombs, artillery, and submarine torpedoes produce time-averaged war-related death tolls so much lower than those from spears, arrows, and clubs.” So how can this be? Because “state warfare is an intermittent exceptional condition, while tribal warfare is virtually continuous.”
This shouldn’t be so astonishing, really. Plus:
A 2012 study in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B noted that the “anthropological record indicates that approximately 85 percent of human societies have permitted men to have more than one wife.” Yet in modern times normative monogamy has become dominant around the globe, increasing social peace by reducing competition among men. The researchers further noted, “Compared to monogamous societies, polygamous cultures see more rape, kidnapping, murder, assault, robbery, fraud, child neglect and child abuse.”
It is not too far of a stretch to think that although societies practicing marital monogamy are historically fewer in number, their comparatively stronger social solidarity has helped them out-grow and out-compete polygamous competitors. And the spread of monogamy has plausibly contributed to the lower levels of violence in the modern societies.
That shouldn’t be so surprising either.
HELPFUL ADVICE FROM MOTHER JONES ON HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN UNTRACEABLE AK-47. Thanks, guys!
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Chicago to shutter 50 schools, largest mass closing in major U.S. city. “The country’s third largest school system, Chicago is facing a $1 billion budget shortfall. Declining enrollments have led to inefficient, half-empty schools where too much money has to be directed to maintenance and operations instead of classroom activities, officials said.”
All is proceeding as I have foreseen.
UNDERCOVERED STORIES: Male Military Rape Survivors Speak Out.
And compare these numbers: “The Pentagon estimated about 13,000 of the 1.2 million men serving in the military suffered sexual assault last year, NBC News reported. About 12,100 of the 203,000 women in uniform were sexually assaulted on active duty last year.”
NEWS YOU CAN USE: 5 Examples Of The “Kobayashi Maru” In Dating. Who knew there were so many dating lessons from Star Trek. But the most important one: Always go for the green-skinned alien chicks. They’re easy.
Related video here.
A SMARTER FUTURE? Humans With Amplified Intelligence Could Be More Powerful Than AI.
AT AMAZON, markdowns on Musical Instruments.
Including a piano you can roll up. For $31.99. How cool is that?
JOHN MCCAIN CONTINUES TO PUSH for unbundling cable TV.
HEH. The whole “empty chair” thing is looking more and more prescient.
FASTER, PLEASE: ‘Universal’ flu vaccine effective in animals: Self-assembling nanoparticles could make updating seasonal vaccines easier. “Current flu vaccines use inactivated whole viruses and must be regularly remade to target the strains most likely to cause illness in the coming year. But the new nanoparticles would require fewer updates because they induce the production of antibodies that neutralize a wider range of flu strains. They could even protect against varieties of flu that have not yet emerged. . . . The antibodies induced by the nanoparticles provide such broad protection because they latch onto sites in HA that are common to different flu strains — one on the head of the protein that recognizes host cells, and another on the stem that helps the virus to penetrate cells.”
MORE COOL PICS: Daredevils post breathtaking pictures atop Seattle landmarks.
IN HIS OWN IMAGE.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Cooking Tips From The Great Depression.
J.D. JOHANNES WRITES:
Normally I don’t find books about the current wars compelling because I’ve lived them in person.
Sixty-seven pages in to Ardolino’s “Fallujah Awakens” and will probably stay up reading it all night.
Ardolino has crafted a fantastic adventure narrative with the definitive history of a crucial part of the Anbar Awakening that changed the course of the war.
Not surprised to hear that.
COOL PICS: Jacob’s Well, Wimberley, Texas.
THE SWELLING TREND OF “BREASTAURANTS.”
HOW AN AMERICAN saved the Porsche 911 from extinction.