3\ And who can forget Gavin Nuisance, gleefully presiding over the nation's longest and most severe lockdown, while breaking the law to dine at French Laundy
Lot of incisive commentary out there about how liberalism undermines institutions by failing to constrain female behavior, betrays women by tricking them into barren careerism, etc.
Much less commentary about how liberalism fails women by turning men into betas...
Was talking to a young in-law whose engagement plans are being destroyed ostensibly because of a few peccadillos on the girl's part, but really because he is naive enough to judge those peccadillos by the standards of male behavior
He keeps saying "But she did X, if I did X to one of my mates, they'd never talk to me again"
Elsewhere: "I open up to her and share my vulnerabilities, and she doesn't reciprocate"
Everywhere, the assumption that women are just men who can bench press less
Has anyone written anything good on evolution in leaf arrangements?
Walking by jacaranda, flamboyant, wild mango, and leopard trees marvelling at the similar tiny bipinnate arrangements, wondering why other trees tile the plane with big spatulate leaves
While Drake was plundering Spanish loot, fighting cannibals, and braving the Strait of Magellan, he took time to paint and draw. Dinners were accompanied by orchestra. An officer hanged for mutiny dabbled in Greek and Hebrew.
Frog memes are not invented, but continually rediscovered
I gifted my copy of Hemingway's "Men at War", so I'm hoping someone can remind me: which South Asian port was taken when the Americans arrived to find the port guns unattended, the flagship loitering near shore?
Spanish indolence crops up again and again in naval histories
What's fun about "societal" justifications for subsidizing daycare is that if you accept the utilitarian logic, you should also support eradicating the biggest cause of declining fertility: female education
The incongruities in "existential threat" discourse are pretty funny
Sea level will rise an inch, so we have to destroy the family and reimagine capitalism etc.
The population of the West will halve this century, and we know exactly why...but you daren't mention it
The case against education isn't that women should be barefoot and illiterate, like the Taliban. It's that 16 years of schooling is about 10 too many for most people, particularly those whose biology requires they get started on childbearing in their 20s