A wise and cynical friend of mine once described the motivation behind puritanism as “the fear that someone might be fucking and getting away with it”. I think the subtext of the periodic public panics about teen sex has always been resentment that sexy young things just might be getting away with it — [...]

A current Weekly Standard article,
Crime Without Punishment, observes that European crime rates are
soaring to levels that match or exceed the U.S.’s even while U.S crime
rates decline for the tenth consecutive year. Schadenfreude
is not a pretty emotion, but it’s hard not to feel a twinge of it
after so many years of listening to snotty [...]

James Rummel

asks why men keep teaching women to shoot, despite the fact
that they tend to outdo us at this manly pursuit.
As a man who makes something of a hobby of teaching woman to shoot, I can answer in two ways:
One: Women need to learn to shoot more than men do. Men
have a 2:1 advantage [...]

James Rummel

asks why men keep teaching women to shoot, despite the fact
that they tend to outdo us at this manly pursuit.
As a man who makes something of a hobby of teaching woman to shoot, I can answer in two ways:
One: Women need to learn to shoot more than men do. Men
have a 2:1 advantage [...]

Most of the participants in the recent blogospheric
mini-flap about a Yale Press Daily article on the fine points of
fellatio
either make crude jokes, dismiss the article as either a sophomoric
exercise in tweak-the-fogies or shocking evidence of the depravity of
today’s youth.
I think both are missing the real point. Well, OK, the
tweak-the-fogies camp is not completely [...]

The cat is out of the bag. During testimony
before a federal judge, Microsoft executive Jim Allchin has
admitted that some code critical to the security of Microsoft products
is so flawed it could not be safely disclosed to other developers or
the public.
Allchin was arguing against efforts by nine states and the District of
Columbia to impose antitrust [...]

I’m on the road in Thailand, speaking at a U.N. conference on sustainable A
development in the Third World. Earlier today I listened to a presentation
on the effects of sex education for women. The presentation mentioned some
cultural value conflicts about sex education, but it occurred to me that it
didn’t touch the biggest one. To [...]

Science fiction, because it deals in extrapolated futures, has a long
tradition of employment as a vehicle for political argument. More than that,
science fiction encourages politically-minded writers to narratize their
beliefs in ways that can sometime reveal more than the writers intended
about the problems and contradictions in their own theories.
I was powerfully reminded of this [...]

Asparagirl has committed a base calumny
against me. While it’s true she had something to do with me entering
the blogosphere, this business about threatening her with a Glock is
totally off-base. I would never do anything like that. My carry
weapon is a Colt Officer’s Model 45 ACP. It’s my wife who
carries the Glock…

Minnesota art student Luke Helder has been charged with the recent string of Midwestern mailbox bombings. There doesn’t seem to be much doubt that he’s the perpetrator.
An art student. Yeah. That fits; the tone of the portentious twaddle in pipe-bomb-boy’s manifesto was exactly that of the artist manque, big ideas being handled stupidly by a [...]

A recent flurry of
nearly identical editorials in American newspapers conveys the
degree of fluttering endemic in dovecotes everywhere in the wake of
the Justice Department’s new statement of position on the Second
Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The New York Times
and Washington Post have viewed with alarm, displaying an
almost pathetic degree of panic at the thought [...]

Eugene Volokh comments that
many of the leading promoters of racial identity politics in the
U.S. have begun to lump Asians in with white people, but declines to
attempt an interpretation. Actually this development is very easy to
understand. All you need to break the code is to know that “white” =
“assimilated”.
Asians tend to be perceived as [...]

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