I’D RATHER SEE NEITHER A BUSH NOR A CLINTON ON THE TICKET IN 2016. But since we’re talking about Jeb Bush, let me say that his only chance is if W’s presidency looks retrospectively like a golden age. From a jobs-and-income standpoint it already does, and as Obama piles up foreign policy debacle after foreign policy debacle, it may look like a golden age from that standpoint too. So he’s got that. . . .

SHADES OF ANDREA YATES: 6-year-old boy in drowning case against mom dies. “A 6-year-old Pennsylvania boy whose mother allegedly held him underwater in a bathtub died Saturday, four days after his younger brother drowned, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed. . . . Forty-year-old Laurel Michelle Schlemmer is being held in the Allegheny County Jail without bond on criminal homicide and other charges in the death of her younger child. With Daniel’s death, the charges against her are expected to be amended.”

SO AFTER I POSTED ON EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS, it occurred to me that the basement room where we shelter during tornado warnings, though quite safe, would be hard to get out of if the house were wrecked above us. So after a little research, I went with the Stanley FatMax Xtreme 55-120 FuBar III. It’s a very stout crowbar/wrecking bar/beakhead/sledge hammer. Pretty much its only drawback is that it’s kind of heavy. I don’t mind it — though at the end of a day doing demo work I probably would — but for digging out of a mess it seems pretty good. I’ve bent crowbars before, but I don’t think that could happen with this one.

RAMPANT SEXISM IN THE NEW YORK TIMES: “Guys are just jerks, and women know it.” Call me crazy, but I’m pretty sure that the tech culture’s problem isn’t that it’s overrun by alpha males. Here’s another bit from the same story: “Pax Dickinson, left, and Elissa Shevinsky ended their working partnership after he tweeted in defense of an app called Titstare. The two reconciled after Mr. Dickinson wrote a public apology.” Alpha male all the way, bro.

But then I see this piece and I wonder (1) if Political Correctness has the tech industry devouring itself; and (2) Is all this stuff somehow more Hillary 2016 battlespace prep? Protect us from the bad alpha males so we can be empowered women!

UPDATE: “Switch one word (male/female) in nearly any graf and you’re describing the culture at most elementary schools.”

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