Yesterday Bill Cosby was found guilty on three counts of aggravated indecent assault against Andrea Constand in 2004. The MeToo movement is happy, flooding Twitter with tweets such as these: Finally some justice for Bill Cosby’s victims. May they find … Continue reading →
Good question, I think. And it’s one being asked by Gabriel Hays in this article: For the week of March 31st, 2018, eight of the top 20 songs in Billboard’s “R&B/Hip-Hop” chart were blatantly sexist and misogynistic. In these songs, … Continue reading →
No, not what it taught me. What it taught Karin Jones. The essay is just another sad commentary on modern life by a woman who seems to have little sense of morality. Or maybe what she lacks is spirituality. Or … Continue reading →
Canada, like most other countries, does not have as robust a free speech tradition as we do in the US. They also have hate speech laws, which we (so far) have not passed here, although many universities have codes against … Continue reading →
Recently there was a lot of talk about a study comparing the incomes in adulthood of black men and women to their white counterparts who grew up in similar economic circumstances. Here were the basic findings: …[B]lack boys are much … Continue reading →
Not my headline; theirs. It’s a common phenomenon, although to the “non-crazed” among us (that would be most of us), it seems like a bad choice and a bad bet: Mass murderer Nikolas Cruz is getting stacks of fan mail … Continue reading →
I didn’t watch the 60 Minutes interview with Stormy Daniels, but I listened to most of it, and I’ve read some of the commentary. My take is similar to that of Professor Jacobson at Legal Insurrection: The Stormy Daniels story … Continue reading →
Mount Holyoke is one of the few all-women schools left. But that sentence needs to be revised, because of this: The Supporting Trans and Non-Binary Students guide was created by officials at the college, which touts its legacy as an … Continue reading →
Seems to be Rotherham all over again: The Sunday Mirror blew open ANOTHER child sex abuse ring in Britain. This 18-month investigation found up to 1,000 girls, as young as 11, raped, sold for sex, and even killed for over … Continue reading →
…the left is all excited (see also this) about Stormy Daniels, and hope that everyone will soon share that excitement, too. Daniels has told a number of stories about whether she had an affair with Trump. But if I had … Continue reading →
Well of course luck has something to do with success. But the basics must be there in terms of brains, drive, and ability, or it won’t work out in the long run even with some luck. I don’t think much … Continue reading →
The Parkland shooting seems to have inspired a surge of references to the alleged fatherlessness of most school shooters (and even of most mass murderers). This article is fairly typical of such pieces, for example, and I see similar assertions … Continue reading →