Saturday, January 18, 2014

On Studies: On Black Fathers Doing Well And On The Importance Of Women Keeping Their Names When Marrying

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  On Fathering By Race And Ethnicity This study (pdf) based on interviews about parenting is a much-needed corrective to those ideas tha...
Friday, January 17, 2014

Friday Blogging Thoughts

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1.  I have a new ergonomic mouse!  That, my friends, means a little less pain and suffering in this highly paid avocation. 2.  I didn...

Short Posts, 1/17/2014: Plastic Surgery Apps For Children, Whooping Cough And What Some Texas Charter Schools Teach.

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1.  What's the app that nine-year-old children (girls?) really, really might need?   The wizards at Apple and Google thought that it m...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

What The Twitter Talks About Today: The Foot And Leg Of A Giant Hillary Clinton on the Cover of Time Magazine.

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The use of Twitter comments as a basis for a column or a post is new.  I am not a fan of it, because writing about people's opinions on...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

What's Happening In US Unemployment? Or Waiting in Line For The Thanksgiving Sales.

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Here's the child's way to figure out the problems we have when measuring unemployment rates in the US right now: A Parable Imag...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Speed Posting, 1/14/14. On Male and Female Virtue, Afghan Women And the US Unemployment Rate

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1.  Here's advice about how to make a marriage work:  Wifely obedience : A former star of the US family sitcom Full House who has bee...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Masculine and Muscular. And Other thoughts On Gender Roles From Conservative American Pundits.

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1.  Brit Hume at Fox News has decided to turn the Governor Christie conversation into something that is the fault of women : HOST HOWAR...
Sunday, January 12, 2014

Your Sunday Movie

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This fascinating color film about London in 1927.
Friday, January 10, 2014

Instead Of A Proper Post

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I want to write piffle, trifle, fluff.  That means All About Echidne And Her Puny Problems. I have three erudite posts (one may be stillb...
Thursday, January 09, 2014

Rubio's Message To The Poor: Get Married!

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The Republican politician Marco Rubio has figured out how to lift "families and children" out of poverty: Republican Senator ...

Appropriate Dress For Muslim Women And Other Gender Issues. The Pew Report.

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I saw references to this yesterday.  Today several people have written about it.  Olga Khazan explains what the study did: Wearing som...
Wednesday, January 08, 2014

Speed Blogging, 1/8/14. Three Posts: Governor Christie, Internet Harassment and Income Inequality

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1.  This story is pretty shocking if true: Private messages between Governor’s Christie’s deputy chief of staff and two of his top exec...

US Arrest Rates By Race and Gender

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Edited later to fix the problem that I read " ex cluding arrests for minor traffic violations" as " in cluding arrests for ...
Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Weird Stuff: Tiger Moms, the Koch Brothers And Makeup As The Cause Of Molestation of Women

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This is like speed blogging on weird topics.  Some topics are truly weird, others are not weird but we are not supposed to notice them.  ...