It’s come to this: [Ned Lebow] says he was joking when he asked to be let off an elevator at the ladies’ lingerie department. A female scholar who was attending the same annual meeting of the International Studies Association was … Continue reading →
Another one bites the dust, amidst accusations by former lovers: New York Attorney General Schneiderman follows the trail of infamy taken by once-esteemed New York politicians Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Weiner when his resignation takes effect today amid accusations of … Continue reading →
A new name, a new policy: “Scouts BSA”: The parent organization will remain the Boy Scouts of America, and the Cub Scouts ”” its program for 7- to 10-year-olds ”” will keep its title as well. But the Boy Scouts … Continue reading →
[NOTE: I feel like I might be belaboring this Cosby situation, since I already wrote a post describing some of the miscarriages of justice I noticed about the Cosby trial. But I continue to learn new things about that trial … Continue reading →
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 →