Links With Your Coffee - Monday
- Language Log: Autour-du-mondegreens: bunkum unbound
- Economic Consequences of Mr. Bush
- Study Debunks Theory On Teen Sex, Delinquency - washingtonpost.com
Researchers at Ohio State University garnered little attention in February when they found that youngsters who lose their virginity earlier than their peers are more likely to become juvenile delinquents. So obvious and well established was the contribution of early sex to later delinquency that the idea was already part of the required curriculum for federal "abstinence only" programs.
There was just one problem: It is probably not true. Other things being equal, a more probing study has found, youngsters who have consensual sex in their early-teen or even preteen years are, if anything, less likely to engage in delinquent behavior later on. - Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters (tip to Jacob)
- Language Log: Ask Language Log: See spot run
- Where Are the Most Bicycle-Friendly Cities in the World?
- WHY PIGS DON'T HAVE WINGS, MARK II
- A Bite of the Bagel - New York Times Maureen Dowd on the Writer's Strike
- A writer's year - Telegraph
Should novelists just shut up and write books? Some people clearly think so.
Many of my fellows appear to be in hot water at the moment.
Doris Lessing is the most recent of them, being denounced for a few remarks on international terrorism and thus joining Martin Amis and Anne Enright in the Novelists' Aunt Sally Club, being spat at by commentators who make their living out of such pronouncements. - Pharyngula: Can we at least demand “Secular Communion”?
- Excerpt from 'The Portable Atheist' - USATODAY.com Amazon link to The Portable Atheist
Comments
Two articles linked today that I read. The teen sex article is missing the graphs that the WaPo dead tree version had. Reasonable facsimiles can be found here.
Also, the Dowd article is actually informative and not too snarky.
The "Economic Consequences of Mr. Bush" reads like a list of crimes against America by Bush. I just don't understand how the majority public cannot want to impeach him.
Manbeer,
You're right, of course. But then, even after an economic comparision of the Clinton administration vs. Reagan-Bush(I) should have expunged the insanity of supply-side economics, Americans bought into it again. The Bush administration exploited the buy now/pay later pitch to the hilt and the majority of the public is simply too stupid to see or too afraid to face what it has done to them - just as so many of them bought into teaser-rate mortgages and assumed they could borrow against temporary home equity bloat with impunity. Bush and his criminal administration have, in virtually every way possible, behaved like con artists always behave: By appealing to the mark's basest instincts to pull off the con. Like and mark who has been conned, Americans don't want to admit it because it reflects so badly on them.
Well, the majority did vote the Democrats into Congress in 2006. But thanks to spinelessness and a broken political system, that majority got nothing in return for their votes.
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