No tengo futoro, says Jeb Bush. Very sad.
Michelle labels 2006 as The Year of Perpetual Outrage, and summarizes the silliness.
The Nokia Internet Tablet. A gift idea. Looks like a handy gizmo.
Ralph Peters asks "What if they don't want what we want?" Indeed. We recently asked the same question. Dino
Another idea: One-cup Mellitta coffee maker
Women overcommunicate! Am Thinker. Yes! Sometimes a guy does not want to be a receptacle for your entire inner life. "Inner" means inner. Keep it with yours, or we will say "Shut up!!!"
Marriage and Caste in America. View from 1776 highlights a review of the book of that name by Kay Hymowitz. A quote from the book:
“Why would women working for a pittance at supermarket cash registers decide to have children without getting married while women writing briefs at Debevoise & Plimpton, who could easily afford to go it alone, insist on finding husbands before they start families?”
The answer, in Ms. Hymowitz’s view, is that many among the urban poor have lost the “life script” for future-oriented child-rearing. Policy makers may assume that the problem is a shortage of employed, marriageable men. But the problem is more existential, a loss of a sense that marriage and children are connected. "
As reform stalls, things in Latin America looking worse. Quote from a good review at TCS:
Even more disturbing than Latin America's tepid economic growth is the fact that its stuttering and half-hearted attempt at economic market reform over the past two decades has barely made a dent at reducing the region's mass poverty and chronic income inequality. In fact, various academic and multilateral bank studies suggest that Latin America still has the worst income distribution in the world and that there is more poverty in Latin America today than there was in the early 1980s when economic reform programs were being initiated.
