Monday, April 22. 2013
I think Georgetown qualifies as an elite school. As a private school, I think they can take whoever they feel like taking.
Still, this story must upset some people, and some alums: Georgetown University, a cover-up?
 Beware The High Priests of Locavorism
Danes Rethink a Welfare State Ample to a Fault
These were the Vikings!
Enviros blame fracking for deadly Texas fertilizer plant explosion
8th grader suspended, arrested for wearing NRA shirt
Boston Bombing: David Remnick Waxes Sympathy Over Evil
FBI hunting 12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Maybe
"Otherizing" terrorists
I always "otherize" bad guys. Most of us make a special effort not to destroy people when we feel pissed off about something.
Mass. police: Bomb suspects didn't have gun permit
I'm shocked
If only the Tsarnaev Bros. had lived near more liberal intellectuals
Boston frames surveillance debate
Uncle Sam Doesn't Believe in Online Privacy
Austria's Muslims:
There may be as many as 500,000 Muslims in Austria; a country with a population of only 8.4 million. Nearly 8 percent of Vienna is Muslim. The Muslim population of Austria doubled in two decades. It will take less time for it to double again. Half of the Muslims in Austria are under 25; twice the number for the general population.
Succeeding now where they failed in 1683.
Sunday, April 21. 2013
Via Volokh:
Tony Soprano: [over the phone] It’s a bad connection so I’m gonna talk fast! The guy you’re looking for is an ex-commando! He killed sixteen Chechen rebels single-handed!
Paulie ‘Walnuts’ Gualtieri: Get the fuck outta here.
Tony Soprano: Yeah. Nice, huh? He was with the Interior Ministry. Guy’s like a Russian green beret. He can not come back and tell this story. You understand?
Paulie ‘Walnuts’ Gualtieri: I hear you.
[hangs up]
Paulie ‘Walnuts’ Gualtieri: You’re not gonna believe this. He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator.
Christopher Moltisanti: His house looked like shit.
Here's a fun selection of Pauli "Walnuts" quotes. Sociopathy can be amusing.
McCain:
"... the liberals who spent four days hoping and praying and predicting that this heinous atrocity was perpetrated by right-wingers are now busy telling us that we shouldn’t focus on the Islamic beliefs of these Chechen terrorists — disciples of radical imam Feiz Mohammad – or the fact that these guys were immigrants.
Our Moral and Intellectual Superiors are now lecturing us that it’s wrong to speculate about motives."
Related, Sultan discusses Coexist
Saturday, April 20. 2013
My Lefty, Massachusetts resident, Boston-educated sis today: "I just want to know why we allow any immigrants into our country anymore. Are we crazy?"
The post includes a quote from the fair-minded Ben Stein wondering whether Obama was the Manchurian Candidate.
"I've been wondering all evening how long it'll be until suspect #2 is teaching at Columbia."
Via Synthstuff
 Germany: It's illegal to complain about parasitic, Western-civilization-hating middle-eastern immigrants
PC has turned Europe into the Thought Police we thought they had turned their backs on. Everybody knows that regular Europeans hate the Muslim invasion imposed upon them by their moral and intellectual superiors.
The politics of dolls?
"It’s hard to grasp now just how intoxicating it was as a young girl to hear Gloria Steinem tell us we could be anything we wanted to be."
Pre-school "education" - A Bad Idea That Refuses to Die
It used to be called "babysitting"
Is there a connection between college grade inflation and the higher education bubble?
Related, The Lake Wobegone Effect at Dartmouth
"A"s cost a lot of money
Climate hawks have some explaining to do
Author has his facts wrong
Mexican immigration wave ended years ago
Terror Experts: Boston Attack a Victory for Islamic Jihad
Report: 3 arrested in New Bedford in connection to bombing suspect
Immediately Following Arrest of Boston Bomber – Media Weeps for Jihadist Killer
There is a profound moral confusion going on
Letter from the Family of Lu Lingzi
Naming of Boston suspects foils racialist, sociological agendas
The "Borat Boys" were overly-assimiliated
New York Times shows sympathy for Boston terrorist suspects
The Left's Spin on Boston Marathon's Chechen Terrorists
The U.S. Anti-Muslim Crowd Is Quite Pleased with Itself
"Coexist" - Steyn on the politicization of mass murder
Via Driscoll:
In many ways this is a replay of the smug anti-American asininity of the Left during the Cold War. The idea that the Soviet Union was a threat was often treated as a paranoid delusion, while the “real” threat from the domestic American right was a grave danger. Hitler was dead. Germany and Japan were U.S. allies. But Communism, which was killing and enslaving hundreds of millions before our eyes, just wasn’t something to get worked up about — at least not compared with the super-scary John Birch Society.
It’s important to realize that this remains a venerable American cottage industry.
Toon below via Lucianne:
Friday, April 19. 2013
So, how 'bout a movie review? First, 'The Avengers'. Language warning is in effect for both of these clips.
Like a lot of people, I draw a fairly distinct line between Science Fiction and Science Fantasy when it comes to books and movies. As long as it's somewhat scientifically possible, it's good in my book. Or movie, as the case may be. Throw in a magical cube that can harness the power of the universe (this movie, the two 'Transformer' movies, etc, etc) and you've pretty much lost me. Put another way, some guys are Batman guys, other guys are Superman or Green Lantern guys.
That's just how it is.
As a Batman guy, I've been fairly luke-cool to the rash of superhero movies that have hit the big screen in recent years (read: Hollywood is so out of fresh ideas that it's now making movies of comic books), with the one big exception being 'Thor', which earned its own review.
Each of the superheroes in 'The Avengers' has already had a movie or two, and this is the gang getting together to fight the deadliest foe of all. You know, the guy with the magical universe-harnessing cube.
MTV Movie Awards: "The Avengers" Wins Movie of the Year
Meh. See above. It was okay, but when you've got vicious armed aliens pouring through an interdimensional hole in the sky, I think it loses a bit of its charm.
Discount all that, however, and it's a pretty good flick. I wouldn't put it on my Recommended List (see above), but it certainly gets a nod for some excellent special effects and some very witty banter at times, especially when the irrepressible Robert Downey Jr. is around.
The reason I'm doing a review on it is because of two scenes that I thought were really well done and I thought I'd share them with you. Both involve the very pressable Scarlett Johansson.
In the first one, they're speaking a bunch of Russian that's accompanied by on-screen subtitles in the movie. They're talking about a couple of key players and their status in the Russian mob. The head bad guy is so sure of himself that's he blabbing away.
Then the phone rings, spoiling everything.
In the second scene, the Avengers know Loki is going to use one of them as part of his evil plan, but the trick is to find out which one.
Obviously, the answer is to send in the master interrogator.
Very pressable.
Again, while being a bit too fantasy-y for my tastes, it has some great bits and the special effects are outstanding. Certainly worth the rental.
We'll continue with 'The Big Bang' below the fold.
Continue reading "Movie Review: 'The Avengers', 'The Big Bang'"
 Heard a bit of NPR this morning discussing the terror brothers. A number of the Boston professors and MIT students they interviewed opined along the lines of "this is what can happen when we aren't welcoming enough to immigrants." They all refused to opine on the Muslim angle (scared to?). An MIT Prof of Poli Sci said "One message is that each of us as individuals should try to do all we can to help immigrants feel more at home."
It was not satire.
For the latest updates on Boston, turn on your radio for the events of last night. It's one heck of a story this morning. Boston police have provisionally identified the two men as suspects in a string of violent incidents outside of Boston as Mike Mulugeta and Sunil Tripathi, both here on student visas. (that appears to be wrong info)
War and Sports Shape Better Artificial Limbs
The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century (h/t Vanderleun)
Sierra Club Authorizes “Civil Disobedience” Against Tar Sands
Roger Kimball: Calling a spade a spade in Boston
Get rid of the corporate income tax. It's not worth it, and there are better ways to collect the money.
Why is the free market retreating and why is the state always advancing?
Henninger: Clinging to Guns—and Abortion - Everyone clings to something, and we now know what liberals cling to.
Gun Control Vote Exposes Clueless MSM
The Desperation of Obamacare Advocates
Gallup Poll: Majority Think Wealth Should Be Distributed More Evenly
George Will:
Government used to spend primarily on the production of things — roads, dams, bridges, military forces. There can be only so many of such goods. Now, DeMuth says, government spends primarily for consumption:
“The possibilities for increasing the kind, level, quality and availability of benefits are practically unlimited. This is the ultimate source of today’s debt predicament. More borrowing for more consumption has no natural stopping point short of imploding on itself.”
Funding the welfare state by vast borrowing and regulatory taxation hides the costs from the public. Hence its political potency. Until the implosion.
Thursday, April 18. 2013
 Gun and Bible-clinging redneck New Yorker that I am, even I did not really object to the background check law in itself. Seemed harmless enough, but also seemed pointless to me because the bad guys never get background checks. Even Sen. Feinstein acknowledged it would do nothing for gun violence.
My issue was beyond the symbolic issue, it was the incrementalism. Federal registration for the good citizens. That's where people like Morning Joe don't get it: Morning Joe Host Shames Senators Who Killed Gun Reform: ‘We’re The 90 Percent And We’re Going To Win’
No you will not "win", and definitely not as long as politicians and celebs and rich folks get their own personal protection from armed guards. Peons like me do not have those perqs or the money to hire them.
Here's another interesting piece: Exploiting Families Of Sandy Hook Victims Backfires. Indeed an embarassing and disgusting display. Boob bait, but the bubbas weren't biting.
But here's the key piece. From Tim Stanley's Barack Obama can't pass gun control despite 90 per cent support. Truly, he is a lame-duck president:
Barack Obama is a lame-duck president. Nobody listens to what he says anymore, nobody is interested in winning his approval and nobody much cares if he thinks they have “let the country down”. This is typical for a second-term president who has lost all their leverage because they’re no longer running for office and everybody is patiently waiting for the day when he quits the White House. But Obama's difficult personality has doubled the size of the challenge. Gloating in victory, adolescent in defeat – the Prez doesn’t make it easy to work with him. Why should conservative senators give him a legislative victory after he has spent four years painting them as knuckle-dragging rednecks who hate women and the poor?
Whatever your position on gun control, yesterday’s events are a damning indictment of Obama’s presidency – a flash of style, lots of soaring rhetoric and, when the votes are actually counted, little show for any of it. America has four more years of this lame-duck president telling them that it has let him down. If only he could tear up the Constitution and rule by diktat he might save himself a little disappointment. Alas, American democracy is a stickler for rules.Barack Obama can't pass gun control despite 90 per cent support. Truly, he is a lame-duck president.
Photo is, once again, our dear friend Marianne's home protection Taurus Judge. No elderly woman with a disabled husband should be without one in her knitting basket, whether in town or country.
 A 'simulation', or sim, is a computer game that mimics every aspect of real life. Silent Hunter 4 places you inside a U.S. attack submarine smack-dab in the middle of World War II. Everything about the sub (and its enemies) is true to reality; the time it takes to dive, to surface, to get up to speed, to stop, the turning radius, torpedo speeds, reloading time; everything.
Luckily, there's a speed-up option so you don't actually have to sit there staring at the computer screen for eight days while you cross the Pacific Ocean. You'll see the speed-up used in a few places in the following video. It's to note that this video is mostly comprised of scenes taken directly from the game, most using the 'external camera' view. Click on the little symbol on the player's tool bar and watch it in full-screen mode.
But first, John Milton's 'On Time'.
Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race,
Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours,
Whose speed is but the heavy plummet's pace;
And glut thyself with what thy womb devours,
Which is no more then what is false and vain,
And merely mortal dross;
So little is our loss,
So little is thy gain.
For when as each thing bad thou hast entomb'd,
And, last of all, thy greedy self consum'd,
Then long Eternity shall greet our bliss,
With an individual kiss.
And Joy shall overtake us as a flood,
When everything that is sincerely good
And perfectly divine,
With Truth, and Peace, and Love
Shall ever shine
About the supreme throne.
Of Him, t'whose happy-making sight alone
When once our heavenly-guided soul shall climb,
Then all this earthy grossness quit,
Attired with stars, we shall forever sit,
Triumphing over Death, and Chance,
And thee, O Time.
And now the intro.
Admittedly, that's not your average game intro.
But, then, it's not actually a 'game', is it? It's a sim.
In a game, you win or lose.
In a sim, you win or die.
Full article is here.
Wednesday, April 17. 2013
 Hurray for Earth Day: Emma Watson bares body for Earth Day
Any excuse will suffice to get nekked with cameras. I think Gaia makes her hot.
Playful fun: The Psychology of Submission - We pull back the covers on steamy bedroom power plays.
Tie me up, ladies, and have your way with me? Hmmm. Maybe...
PSA test leads to further procedures, harms: study
Queer Gardens, for college credit
If anybody calls my gardens queer, I'll slap you, bitch
This Slacker Doesn't Even Work Weekends
A real New Yorker. Beautiful life, working at 90 1/2.
Unsubstantiated accusations against my son by a former girlfriend landed him
before a nightmarish college tribunal.
More Columbia and Cornell co-eds seeking “Sugar Daddies”
They are termed "whores." Ancient profession. More kindly, "mistresses." Free market Capitalism at work. Everything has a market price including bodies whether dead or alive.
I have this problem all the time
If race is to be taken into account, what percentage should an individual possess?
I have 6.25% Redskin blood. Can I get anything free because of my historical oppression? I have not had my Neanderthal level checked yet, but it's probably pretty high too. Endangered species to boot, conservative Neanderthals who want to bring back cave dwelling in the Ice Age.
Cheap: The miracle of the marketplace brings tropical fruit from 2,000 miles away in Colombia to my local grocery store
Homeland Security Website: 'Learn How DHS Helps Keep Our Nation Safe'
You could close the whole dumb Bush boondoggle tomorrow and it would make no difference
What is California's biggest problem?
It's the weather! Maybe they would prefer Maine, where it's 37 degrees F this morning, and there is still a foot of snow on the ground.
Californians: Prepare For A 50% Hike In Pension Costs
The Wreck of the Euro:
...with the exception of communism itself, the euro has been the biggest economic catastrophe to befall the continent (and the world) since the 1930s. Politicians in Europe thought they were living in a post-historical period in which mistakes didn’t really matter all that much. They were horribly wrong, and the wreck of the euro is blighting lives and embittering spirits on a truly staggering scale.
It's done. Dead, but not buried yet.
Education fact of the day: DC charter schools now enroll 43% of the city’s students, with plans to expand further
Gun control bill in peril
The Men Responsible for Starving Egyptian Families - The ship is sinking, and the cry is, "Women and children last!"
...even if Maduro’s dubious election victory is allowed to stand, the Chávez revolution is in big trouble.
Tuesday, April 16. 2013
Bombs filled with ball bearings in my Boston Town. It's like a bad dream. What evil and/or insane person or persons did this to our gentle, Liberal town and our world-wide guests?
In the absence of information, it's a Rorshach of peoples' hopes and fears, and on the teevee, talking heads attempt to instill their prejudices to gullible low-info voters according to their preferred narratives. No info? A chance to write something onto their blank slates that might stick to their emotions.
Meanwhile, we have a mass murderer on trial in Philly, a knife-man attacker in a school, and 4 killed in Chicago just last weekend with illegal handguns. We know those details.
Evil exists everywhere and no laws can eliminate evil. Stay strong and calm and carry on. See human history. Our thanks to all of the first responders everywhere, and to all of the good civilians who pitch in when help is needed and run towards trouble instead of away from it.
We will never be free of trouble, but strong men and women will always run to the sound of the guns.
 Boston: Mr. Rogers Knows (Photo via Drudge)
Streetcars: an inconvenient truth
Florida Battles Slimy Invasion by Giant Snails
Escargots? Molluscs are tasty.
India's lions and tigers being eliminated by poachers
All about dark matter
When God Is Your Therapist
The poop trucks of Dubai
Legalize Polygamy!
Conn Carroll: Fracking revolutionized American energy as green energy failed
California's Blue Civil War: Knives Drawn in Education Fight
It's for the children
It's Time to End the U.S. Embargo of Cuba - The U.S. government has been tireless in pursuing a policy that does not look better with time
I agree.
Cass Sunstein: The Poster Boy for ‘Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out’
Bowdoin: Putting the “Liberal” in Liberal Arts
Rob Woodall: Mitt Romney Was Right About '47 Percent' Statistic
Climate scientists struggle to explain warming slowdown
There's no slowdown, there's a stop. I suspect their data was largely wrong all along. A cooling trend is going to be an inconvenient truth because people tend to prefer warm weather. I like cold and snow and sleet in winter and warm in summer. In-between April is the worst, but we must be just happy to be alive.
Germany to Greece: So Sue Me
Will the EU lead to war? Financial war, at the least...
Former officer allegedly leaked U.S. military secrets to Chinese girlfriend
Monday, April 15. 2013
 Ugh. I think I'm going to have to give up my Internet connection for a while until I get well. At $120/mo, it's my biggest expense after rent. The reason it's so high is because I moved about a year ago and ended up behind the local cellphone tower, which, as it turns out, is very directional. My faithful Verizon Wireless wouldn't work, nor would a Sprint unit I tried. I hunted around and finally found a company that specializes in rural areas and I ended up with an actual box with a 3' antenna sitting on top of it. While slow and expensive, at least it works.
As I noted a month ago, I've kind of peaked-out at around 75% recovery after my tumor operation last summer and the doctors want to run a whole slew of expensive tests. You know how doctors and dentists are. Money's no object in their little worlds.
Between ditching the Internet and some other things, I can save about $250/mo, which should enable me to keep up with the hospital payments so the tests can continue until they figure out what's wrong. Thankfully, there's a nearby library that has a bunch of computers I can use for my webmastering maintenance job. I might also make the occasional post here, but I'd hate the idea of not being able to read and respond to the comments. That interaction is often the best part of blogging.
The cut-off date is Wednesday next week, so I don't have to make the decision immediately. If anyone would like to help out this poor wretched soul, my tumor operation link is here. Anything would be appreciated. Cutting off my Internet is going to be like cutting off an arm, but I've got to do something. Health is more important than anything else at this point.
I will, however, be (temporarily) leaving the online community with a flourish. I have a handful of pieces I've been working on for a while, including a review and manual for the greatest 'war sim' ever developed, an existential treatise on the meaninglessness of certain words ("smarter" and "truth" top the list), and the revelation of an amazing secret being kept from 38 million Americans. The right-wing bloggers have been pounding and pounding a certain false truth into you for a decade and, to their shame and disgrace, 38 million people have been kept from this great revelation. This article will help balance the scales. Look for it Friday as the week's 'capper'.
Also, another installment of History's Mysteries, this time dealing with that horrific Nazi swastika. Fun for the whole family. And, like the way I refer to my AGW opus as "the last article on global warming you'll ever need to read", similarly, I've written the last article on marijuana you'll ever need to read. Remember, legalized pot is considered a lefty issue by the right-wing bloggers, because pot was popularized by all of those smelly radical left-wing hippies back in the day, so it's perfectly understandable if they spin the argument against it. Hot Air (and Theo) ran an anti-pot video a while back that was so filled with outright lies, disingenuous lies, and lies by omission that it rivaled the worst of the AGW spewage.
And that's saying a lot.
So, there's your update. I'll just be posting a Computin' Tip later on today. The good stuff starts tomorrow and will run through next Tuesday. After that, I cannot say.
Triple play: Because Satan Is a Yankees Fan
The Real Reason No One's Buying PCs Anymore: They've Gotten Too Good
Or...Did Windows 8 kill PC sales?
Paul LePage: Beretta, Colt and Magpul—Come to Maine
Senate Uses Doctors for Gun Control
NYT Admits Union Pensions Aren’t Sacred
Media Acknowledge Blowing Gosnell Story, Pledge Extensive Coverage
L.A. Times: "Immigration bill would spark surge of legal arrivals"
James Lovelock: A man for all seasons - The guru of Gaia is a maverick environmentalist who supports fracking and nuclear power. Does he believe the human race has a future?
The Left's Fantasy of Progress
Study: CA High-Speed Rail Will Lose $124-$373 Million A Year
Top Obamacare Adviser: Doctors Told to Focus on “Cost Value” and Volume… Not the Patient
GosnellGate: It’s the A-Word
Professor Yarbrough responds, re the Bowdoin expose
Jesus Never Said I Couldn’t Paint the Baby
The Decline of Obama - How to lose friends and influence.
Frank Bruni on politicians as love gluttons
Sultan:
Kermit Gosnell will be locked up. There will be a brief spurt of inspections. And then things will go on as before and the empowerment educators who wear "I Had an Abortion" t-shirts while they drive to the soccer games of their children in some placid suburb will sleep well at night knowing that somewhere in Philly, NYC and LA there are rough men doing violence to the wombs of desperate women and the lives of their unborn children on behalf of their ideologies and policies. Rough men in dark places doing he inevitable dirty work in the world they made.
Via Ricochet's The Price of Utopia:
Now is the time when we, as feminists, can show we're not afraid to confront the difficult and unpleasant realities of abortion -- the disturbing bloody images, the fact that sometimes women don't actually have a Very Good Reason to be seeking one, and even the unfortunate physical and emotional consequences that sometimes follow. Once we acknowledge that these things are there and real and unpleasant, we can continue to assert our right to do it anyway, and in doing this, remove their power over us.
Reminder: Obama supported infanticide
Huge gender gap persists in college degrees but gets no attention
Bernie Sanders: Warming is not a hoax
Californians Sign Petition to Ban and Confiscate Firearms
Capriles almost won in Venezuela
Thursday, April 11. 2013
Ben Carson steps down as Hopkins commencement speaker.
A sad day when somebody can feel unwanted for believing that marriage is for a man and a woman. Of course, it's their loss, not his.
 Remarkably Audubon-like photo of eagles sharing a meal from Smithsonian, via Am. Digest.
Heather MacDonald never ceases to amaze: Rigoletto, L’Elisir, and Clemenza - Considering three new Met opera productions
She does opera reviews too? She is too much. Well, she went to Andover so maybe that explains it. Yale, Oxford, and Stanford Law too. Here's her bio.
My year on Match.com - I'd done so many scary things in my life, but this might be the scariest. At the age of 58, I joined a dating site
What Really Happens When You Flush on an Airplane?
That plumbing requires serious engineering
The myth of Breast Feeding
Many Moms love to do it, but any health benefits seem to disappear when corrected for income and social class. Poor people breast feed less.
Wood: The fuel of the future - Environmental lunacy in Europe
Wood is fuel for barbarians like me and Sippican. It's just pre-fossil fuel for rednecks and Neanderthals.
Almost 100 million people aren't smart enough to enlist in the military
As Dr. Merc pointed out, precisely 50% of Americans are of below-average intelligence. Strange how it comes out to exactly half, isn't it? That's not fair.
The US equity market: It's not a rally, it's a credit bubble of epic proportions
David Stockman on The Federal Reserve: is "off the deep end"
What he says
Can the Weiner get up again?
He is an astonishingly obnoxious jerk.
War on Poverty: $15 Trillion Wasted
Not to mention the incalculable costs of the unintended consequences
How to milk the system: Lawyers & disability claims
Andy Kessler: The Pension Rate-of-Return Fantasy - Counting on 7.5% when Treasury bonds are paying 1.74%? That's going to cost taxpayers billions.
Gun Manufacturer to Leave Conn. After New Gun Control Law
Historically, CT was the center of weapon manufacturing
VDH unloads: Confessions of a Counter-Revolutionary
What he says about everything
New MSNBC promo: You have the right to health care, education, housing, and food at all times
Same as children and slaves
IRS: We Don’t Need a Warrant to Read Your Emails
Energy Journal: Shale Ripples Hit Middle East and Russia
Minority contractors ‘game the system,’ find havens in D.C. homes
Minority (ie black) shell companies profit by acting as contracting pass-throughs for service and manufacturing companies. Despite seeming fraudulent, it's entirely legal, encouraged in fact by the government. One easy way to profit from skin tone is to offer to be an intermediary conduit for white-owned businesses.
Wednesday, April 10. 2013
Powerline: The Philosopher king for the nanny state
If we the people need coercive paternalism because we're too dumb to pick our own food, then surely we are too dumb to be allowed to select our governmental representation. Therefore, I propose myself as Philosopher King. Why not me? I did study Plato in college. He invented an ideal, all-wise and altruistic totalitarianism. First thing I would do in the job would be to eliminate the position and fire myself, which is what my philosophy would require.
Well, that's what I would do if I did not happen to enjoy the power and perqs too much...
Point is, I think Bowdoin Prof. Sarah Conly is insane in the (probably) non-clinical sense. After all, is she exempt from bad choices herself? Who are the ubermenschen? Professors? God forbid.
Via Captain Capitalism's My Amazing Awesome Super Intelligent Friends, a big-time Millennial whine: My friends and I are in career purgatory:
By and large, my friends and my friends’ friends are all intelligent, educated, gregarious, and creative. They’re insightful and thoughtful. They’re critical and ambitious. So why do so many employers put them in positions that don’t take full advantage of what they’ve got to offer?
and
I’ve thought seriously about changing my LinkedIn profile blurb to something like, “My career goal is to gain a position that energizes, excites, challenges, and values me, so that I can continue to develop my skills and talents, and grow as a person.” I wonder if that would catch anyone’s eye?
Kate, we're all special, aren't we? But I think you're a little too special for my shop. Trust me, anybody who read that would gag.
Related, if you control for the obvious variables (hours worked, education, experience, etc), young childless women make more money than young childless men. So there is a wage gap, but it's not what people say it is.
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