Apparently, the effect of eating four day-old spinach when you think you might have some kind of stomach flu is to remove all doubt. Hopefully blogging will remove shortly. In the meantime, since between the onset of illness and deluge of Real Work I neglected...
gender discrimination
I haven't had a chance to watch the new HBO documentary about the revolting amount of gang rape in the Congo and its heartbreaking aftermath yet, but Lauren has and.
I'd been meaning to write about Emily Yoffe's hectoring of single mothers, but was delayed by a massive pile of Real Work and a bad flu. Fortunately for all of.
Kerry Howley responds to my post on feminist-libertarian arguments for legalizing prostitution. Given Amanda's (also quoted by Ann) take, she has a fair point in noting that my isolated quote created a misleading impression about her post. I definitely didn't read Howley as ignoring the...
Matt links to without fully endorsing Kerry Howley's feminist-libertarian argument for legalizing prostitution. I'm inclined to agree with her bottom line, but I do find the argument in this form.
Attempts by the staff at the WaPO to justify printing Charlotte Allen's women-are-teh-stupid projection were, needless to say, embarrassing. (They don't discuss Hirshman's "women who don't agree with me that.
You may recall John Pomfret claiming that the embarrassing Charlotte Allen editorial he published was just "tongue-in-cheek." (Exactly what the column was satirizing Pomfret left obscure.) Alas, Allen herself doesn't seem to have gotten the memo:Washington: When I read this, I immediately thought it was...
Why, it's almost as if the talk of liberating Afghani women was a cynical pretext abandoned as soon as they had another shiny new Islamist quasi-state to install!I'm afraid that.
The bad news is that Neil Cavuto discussed Hillary Clinton's "kind of bitchy image." The good news is that it was on Faux Business, so nobody was watching.
A valuable roundup. It's easy to understand why this kind of stuff pushes people into Clinton's camp.
Via Matt, Radley Balko and Kerry Howley discuss some data that supports my inclination to decriminalize and regulate prostitution. Because sex workers engaged in illegal activity can't go to the.