1. Alex Tabarrok – the more PC-averse contributor at Marginal Revolution (that’s a compliment) – links to research that attempts to reconcile the fact that only 5.5% of commercial patents are held by women. Tabarrok writes:
Predictably, the authors do not ask why women might self-select into non patent-intensive fields, perhaps because this would require at least a discussion of politically incorrect questions. The failure to investigate these questions leads to some dubious conclusions, notably:
Closing the [gender] gap among S&E degree holders would increase commercialized patents by 24% and GDP per capita by2.7%.
Right; and since only 10% of construction workers are women, closing the gender gap would result in many more houses.
2. I was wrong about two things on Sandra Fluke. She’s not a lesbian (though I merely brought that up as a possibility and to thumb my nose at heteronormativity) and her digit ratio isn’t what it appeared in the pictures I cited (see next link). Oopsie. But she’s still a thief or a pirate or whatever you want to call her. And she believes that politicians have to pass a “pro-woman” litmus test in order to be elected. So, she’s opposed to democracy. Also, she had no idea that birth control could be bought for $9 at a Target near Georgetown.
3. L.A. County moves to criminalize “racist” and “sexist” radio commentary.
4. At National Review, “The College Cartel” by Reihan Salam and Vance Fried.
5. After seeing infinite reiterations of Dinosaur Jr. wannabes at SXSW, Luke O’Neil is off music.
6. The black Florida Atlantic University student that went on a racial tirade against whites and threatened to kill at least a couple of white students and her evolution professor, was interviewed by a Miami TV station about the Trayvon Martin case the night before her outburst.
Like this:
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Sounds like she could still learn a thing or two about … evolving.
While I thought it was rather absurd for Rush Limbaugh to label Sandra Fluke a whore because she wants all of us to chip in to pay her birth control costs through higher insurance premiums, and a slut for feeling she needs birth control in the first place (yeah she’s not a virgin and not married but that hardly makes her a slut in this day and age), I also thought the left’s getting into an uproar over it was absolutely ridiculous.
The notion that it’s sexist and somehow morally offensive to call someone a slut no matter how many men she’s how quickly slept with is totally bullshite. I’m sorry, Lindsay Lohan richly deserves to be called a slut. Just because feminists want to ban the word doesn’t mean they get to.
I love the way Alex Taboarrok made that PC projection on patent increases utterly absurd on it’s face.
doug,
me too. tabarrok will do that. cowen is the more brilliant of the two (or maybe just more loquacious) but he’s on so namby-pamby on the judgment-takeaway side of things. what’s the point of being an economist if you never come to a conclusion? he derides this sentiment as a need for ‘mood affiliation’.
What’s so difficult about using condoms?
She is a thief, but stealing money for birth control from the taxpayers is still a lot better than stealing money for her to raise a future criminal for 18 years!
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