Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Glenn Reynolds is absolutely right when he wonders if birth control pills have contributed to the dramatic rise in strokes in young urban women. Today at Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds put up the following short post: A WORRISOME INCREASE IN STROKES among young people in large cities. The increase among women is more
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The miserable sexism of Hillary’s supporters. I’ve agreed with myself to disagree with Jonah Goldberg about Donald Trump, while still greatly respecting and deeply appreciating Goldberg’s take on just about everything else. In the wake of Hillary’s 9/11 collapse, followed by her dehydration, followed by the media castigating as sexist
Continue reading[This is a long one, good for a cozy read on a winter day.] I’m a pessimist. I’ve learned through experience that most things go wrong, whether in the world or in my life. Still, I never completely lose hope. If I didn’t have hope, frankly, I would stop moving
Continue reading“You’re so judgmental, Mom,” my teen told me yesterday. The reason for this statement (and he totally missed the irony of his judging me for being too judgmental) was the distaste I expressed for Mark Zuckerberg. I didn’t defend myself against my teen’s charge. “You’re damn right I’m judgmental. Zuckerberg deserves
Continue readingProgressives are tremendously excited about a study that purports to show that kids raised religiously are less nice than atheist children: According to a new study published in the journal Current Biology, children that come from non-religious households behave significantly more altruistically than those from religious households, as measured by
Continue readingI was livid this morning. One of my children asked me to quiz her about rhetorical fallacies, which she was studying for a test. The teacher had put the examples together himself and they included such gems as saying it’s a logical fallacy to argue that guns are tools in
Continue reading[UPDATE: Freddie Gray’s death has been ruled a homicide. I don’t think it changes the questions I ask below or the information I offer. It simply means that, whether Gray’s death was purely accidental or the result of self-inflicted behavior, gross negligence, or homicide, he might have been more vulnerable
Continue readingOy! Even my interruptions keep being interrupted today. Still, I managed to gather together a few very interesting things: Heading into a another cooling period Even as the Left gets increasingly hysterical about “climate change,” which has become an all-purpose excuse for everything from drought, to deluge, to prostitution, actual
Continue readingI was a little girl when the phrase “Question Authority” became the mantra for teens and young adults. To give that generation credit, even as they stopped bathing and warped their brains with drugs, they really did make an effort to challenge the shibboleths that the academic establishment and the
Continue readingMy parents raised me to be academically successful. They came from a European milieu that valued intellectual elitism above all other things. That was my value too, and one I applied to the people with whom I chose to surround myself. As the years went by, though, I realized that
Continue readingOn my Facebook page today, two of my friends put up links with advice for parents raising sons. One link came from an ultra liberal friend and the other link came from a solidly conservative friend. There is a vast chasm between the two sites when it comes the types
Continue readingMy daughter has frequently come home from soccer fulminating about certain girls on her team who keep “yelling” at her. I have to admit that I didn’t initially take her complaints very seriously. Being a teen she (a) has thin skin and (b) is prone to exaggeration. Also, in a
Continue readingI attended a graduation yesterday and, this being Marin, it was a very ritzy affair. The boys were nattily attired in suits (with a surprising number of bow ties popping up amongst the newly minted graduates) while the girls were wearing skimpy dresses, many of which obviously cost more than
Continue readingAs the mother of the Obama government’s Plan B (aka “Morning After Pill”) demographic, I have strong feelings about the move to let 15 year olds just go to the store and buy the stuff. The Watcher’s Council has a forum up on that subject and, as always, Council members
Continue reading(I was halfway through writing this one before I remembered that it was for Mr. Conservative and not for my own site. Now that it’s up there, though, I can reprint it here, and make my friends a part of the conversation.) You know what your 12-year-old daughter needs? Free
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