Everything is just peachy-keen: Yeah, that’s one of the ads Colorado Democrats, oh, I’m so sorry, Colorado bureaucrats , are using to peddle Obamacare sign-ups. H/T Ricochet—their post, Idiocracy Has Arrived , has a link to the official website if you can stomach it. No, . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, I agree with Carl that the data in the study about the Japanese aversion to sex is suspect. On the other hand: What I say doesn’t really depend on the data so much. The phrase “celibacy syndrome” is the translation of a malady that was identified by the Japanese media, not . . . . Continue Reading »
With respect to Peter’s latest Big Think, a warning, and a push-back. There are a number of hard-to-figure things about the Japanese, and perhaps, building on top of distinctive cultural traits regarding sex and love that go way back, the 21st century Japanese really have become erotically . . . . Continue Reading »
big thoughts here . . . . Continue Reading »
Henry Olsen has written a fascinating and important article about the voting habits and worldview of the white working-class. Republicans aren’t doing so well with them. Olsen reports that Obama won non-southern whites who earn less than $45,000. Mitt Romney did a mediocre-to-lousy job of . . . . Continue Reading »
The color was startling against the autumn shades of Northeast Ohio; there was just this nubbin of lilac on one of several lilac bushes that bloom like mad things every spring. I had pruned the shrub to control the growth pattern back in June, so maybe that had something to do with . . . . Continue Reading »
So saith Ozbama, the Great and Powerful, to an idealistic young Dorothy, a bright-eyed millennial Obama Girl wondering how she can ever get back to the land of expected economic American normality all her sweet elders told her about. What she needs is a strong dose of The Stanley Druckenmiller . . . . Continue Reading »
One distinguished humanist to another. . . . . Continue Reading »
In education today there is an ever-increasing anxiety—an anxiety which emphasizes student success as the end all and be all of education. The idea of student success is so nerve wracking that it permeates the most detailed of instructional activities. Lives and livelihoods are at stake. . . . . Continue Reading »
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