WHY DOES THINKPROGRESS HATE WOMEN? Think Progress Is Furious That A Woman Defended Herself From Armed Robbery In Chicago.

THIS SEEMS EXCLUSIONARY AGAINST PEOPLE WHO WOULD CHOOSE “Y” OR “Q” OR ANY OTHER LETTER THEY PREFER: NYC Adds Third Gender ‘X’ Option to Official City ID Cards. “Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today that ‘in the fairest big city in America, we have a mandate to further our commitment to justice’.”

IMAGINE IF A MALE REPUBLICAN USED THIS METAPHOR: Ocasio-Cortez: We’re going to “run train on the progressive agenda.”

CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES FILES LAWSUIT AGAINST RICHARD COHEN, THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER’S PRESIDENT:  It seeks damages and an injunction prohibiting him from repeating the false accusation that the Center is a “hate group.”

ROGER SIMON: May the Shutdown Go On Forever.

Slower, please.

TYLER O’NEIL: Jewish Groups, ACLU, Planned Parenthood, YWCA Silent on Continued Women’s March Support. “Why do they remain, when EMILY’s List, the SPLC, and the DNC have jumped ship?”

SCIENCE-BASED CURRICULA: Transgender activists gearing up to rewrite Harvard Medical School’s curriculum.

LET’S NOT DO ANY OF THESE: The 4 Things That Could Hobble the Commercial Space Revolution.

STIMULUS ACT, NORTH CHINA EDITION: Chinese workers may get 2½-day weekend to go shopping, but public services users aren’t buying it.

TAKING SIDES: Colleges promote anti-Trump Women’s March. One offers free poster supplies. Given that the Women’s March is so anti-semitic that the DNC has disassociated itself, maybe colleges should think twice. Also, I thought tax exempt organizations weren’t supposed to take sides in partisan political disputes.

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LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Dems Dump Women’s March and Much, Much More. “[Women’s March] Leader Tamika Mallory appeared on the trash show The View and defended Jew-hater and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Mallory had called Farrakhan the GOAT, Greatest of All Time for his work in the black community, like spreading antisemitism and racism. Terrific work.”

I’D LIKE TO SEE SEARS MAKE IT: Sears, Kmart may survive: Eddie Lampert wins Chapter 11 bankruptcy auction.

BOOK REVIEW: Ironclad Captains of the Civil War by Myron J. Smith, Jr. As Smith “addresses the careers of these men [the ship commanders], he also imparts a great deal of information about the operation of the early ironclads, the course of the war, and naval service during it.” The reviewer says it’s a reference work — if so, it’s a reference with a great title.

APACHE SUNRISE: A U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopter flies in formation over Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.

PHILIP CARL SALZMAN: The Toxic Mission To Re-Engineer Men.

The communists in the USSR and Cuba tried to invent a “new man,” a “socialist man” who would give up his individuality in order to advance the interests of “the people.” But the population never bought it, and oppressive security agencies were imposed to coerce people to live according to socialist ideals. That is why the “beneficiaries” of communism were delighted when their totalitarian societies fell.

Today, with the freeing of females from traditional role constraints, it is still primarily men who do the dangerous and dirty jobs, who make up most of the first responders and the military who defend us, and who, as scientists and engineers, continue to address the natural world for understanding and to serve our needs. These are some of the ways that the characteristics and qualities of men benefit society. And it is the job of socialization to direct the traits of men into constructive channels, a more realistic and productive strategy than trying to turn males into females.

Yes, being a man is not stress-free, and sometimes we have inner struggles. But do women not also have inner struggles, and is that not in our nature as human beings? Feminists who simplistically argue that women’s psychological and other problems are all and always the fault of “toxic” men, are doing a very human thing: blaming others for their problems. That such sad naivete has been adopted by our governments, scientific organizations, and schools and universities does not reflect a very sound understanding of people or the world. Even more so for psychologists, who should know better.

True.

BLUE STATE BLUES: Disappointing photos show what living in San Francisco on a tech salary really looks like.

It’s a genuine loss when such smart, ambitious people have to devote so much of their smarts and ambition just to finding a place to live, but this bit from the photo essay is just too precious:

And so tech workers, both seasoned and newly minted, have had to get creative with how they can outsmart the city’s notoriously absurd rental costs.

Maybe they could, I don’t know, try voting Republican?

THE PROBLEMS WITH TINY HOUSES: They tend to depreciate in value. Tiny homes ≠ tiny consumption. Read the whole thing.

AMERICA’S SHUTDOWN INDIFFERENCE, EXPLAINED:

I mention these anecdotes not because I think the present record-setting shutdown is good or sane policy but because I am trying to illustrate why I and other Americans have a hard time caring much about it. In the popular imagination — and sometimes in dozens of little-read memos from the inspectors general of various departments — the average federal employee appears to be lazy, incompetent, performing meaningless tasks for too much pay, with an enviable array of benefits and other amenities (I still roll my eyes in disgust whenever I am reminded that there exist special credit unions for federal employees, whose pay and job security would be the envy of a hundred million other Americans). Government employees, at both the state and federal level, are among the only workers in the United States who continue to be represented by powerful unions, despite the fact that by definition they’re not bargaining against capital but against their fellow citizens.

This is to say nothing of the vast assortment of contractors, consultants, and hangers-on whose “work” has been temporarily interrupted by the shutdown. Their grotesque salaries have blighted the landscape with McMansions and driven housing prices in Maryland and northern Virginia to a level beyond what most families with children will ever be able to afford. So the people whose job it is to bid up the price of useless airplanes or dream up rival marketing schemes for some “cloud” project while our nation’s capital lacks a functional public transit system are going to have .05 percent fewer billable hours for the year? Boo hoo.

Coal miners lose their jobs for good and it’s “you’re obsolete, learn to code!” Federal workers have a few paychecks delayed and the press is in heartstring-tugging mode.

THE INEVITABLE RESULT OF GIVING AN ECONOMIC ILLITERATE SO MUCH POWER OVER THE ECONOMY: As economy sours, Erdogan’s party could lose grip on big cities in local polls.

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN CORRECTS AN AMERICAN LAW PROFESSOR on the Brexit process. Plus: “When you use such strong language about Brexit, and you do so for reasons that are (in my opinion) entirely opaque, it sort of undermines the force of the similar hyperbolic language you use in regard to Trump. You do see that, right?”

PRETTY LATE TO THE #METOO PARTY: Female Economists Push Their Field Toward A #MeToo Reckoning.