The Best Thing You Saw Today
I’m in Jamaica for my college roommate’s wedding, and walking back from dinner tonight I came across a giant turtle on the beach, about 10 feet from the water, digging a big hole and attempting to lay eggs.
...read moreHigh School Cougars
Shorter New York Times: High-school-age girls who date boys a year or two younger are predatory and suspect. It’s more normal for them to date college-age men, because of course there is nothing at all sketchy about an adult man in college who wants to date a 15-year-old.
...read moreStudents at Stuyvesant Take Issue With Dress Code
And no wonder. Stuyvesant is one of the best public high schools in New York City; it’s very competitive to get in, and its graduates go on to excellent colleges. And apparently the kids at Stuy were dressing “inappropriately,” and a new code had to be issued and enforced. Here’s the code:
...read moreShameless Self-Promotion Sunday
Do your thing.
...read moreFeministe Book Club: The Hunger Games, Chapters 19-27
The end! It’s the end! The book is over. Sigh. Ready, go.
Next up: If anyone’s up for Catching Fire, I am. I’m going to take a week off and set the first discussion for the week after next, Saturday, June 9, with Part I, chapters 1-9.
...read moreAwesome Dad of the Day
Will Smith: “We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you teach her that you’re in control of her body? If I teach her that I’m in charge of whether or not she can touch her hair, she’s going to replace me with some other man when [...]
...read more“Pro-Choice” Americans at a record low
According to a recent Gallup poll, the percentage of Americans who identify as “pro-choice” is at an all-time low of 41%. By contrast, 50% of Americans ID as pro-life.
...read moreKill It With Fire
An incomplete list:
...read moreBut he didn’t want to be questioned!
Good news, criminals: You can sexually assault someone, get caught, decide you simply don’t feel like being questioned right at this moment and then walk free. Or at least those are the rules the NYPD plays by:
...read moreArizona Catholic school baseball players won’t make it to second base with a girl
As it is written, “Engage thyself not in coeducational sporting endeavors, lest thou get thine ass kicked by a gi-irl.”
...read moreInstead of playing in a championship baseball game, Paige Sultzbach and her team won’t even make it to the dugout.
A Phoenix school that was scheduled to play the 15-year-old Mesa girl and her male teammates forfeited the game rather than face a female player.
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