Judge Judy not a feminist. Katie Couric freaks out.

I love the way Couric just assumed that Judge Judy was a feminist and the way Judy denied it.

intellectually, socially, and yes, sexually equiped to accept the editorial responsibility this opportunity affords.

Let's steal some Twitter jokes.

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BY the way, you can get away with two links as long as you don't have a URL for your name.

Shux, bungled the first one. The point is, THIS MY TIME... To steal stuff.

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This is going great!

You also have to include one line that isn't links.

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You guys see NBA Game 4 last night?

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Okay this oughta do it.

'Lebben

Done

Feminism has nothing to do with the "social, political, etc., equality for men and women," as Couric defines it.

This is why I, also, am not a feminist. I'm for equal rights -- including the rights of men.

People assumed I'd join the Feminist Ev Psych Society. They assumed entirely wrong. There's only science, not feminist or masculinist or anythingelse-ist science.

When the FEPS meeting was taking place in Missouri, during the last big ev psych conference, a fellow unPC woman friend and I talked about going to a gun range -- as the most unPC thing we could do. But it was rainy and far and we didn't have a car, so we just went out for a drink.

PS I love Judge Judy and nearly fell over in a faint when we saw her at some food marketplace in Philly. (And I live in Los Angeles and see celebrities walking their dog outside my house all the time and don't get all palpitatious.)

I especially liked the Roomba one, Cridster.

The Science on why Russia is Bitchy Resting Face Nation http://read.bi/1TGxAV3

Shell shock.

Colby Cosh is tearing it up this weekend over the farewell tour of a rock group (unknown to me) called the Tragically Hip, presently embarking on their last tour, as the singer has cancer. See the last couple of days of his Twitter feed: He's impatient with people who don't understand that ticket scalpers are a free economy's best way of giving people what they want.

"When the FEPS meeting was taking place in Missouri, during the last big ev psych conference, a fellow unPC woman friend and I talked about going to a gun range -- as the most unPC thing we could do."

It's another case of societal schizophrenia that the "feminist" may insist that being able to shoot does NOT indicate added capability on their part.

One competitor like Isab has done more to promote the independence of women more than a thousand begging for Teh Patriarchy to give them something, or any SJW saying "pay attention to meeee!"

Another Cosh: The same capitalist virtues have properly shredded "Peak oil" theory, as described in his column. See also the comments.

Re: Russia, their cultural inhibitions for rote-but-courteous expressions of warmth are one of the reasons they're so fucked up. Huge fractions of their male populations are drinking themselves to death as a retirement plan, and the women aren't doing so well either.

"The Russian phenomenon of hypermortality comes to be observed primarily in working-age populations[.]"

Courtesy has economic value, in the right proportion. A quarter century ago, when I was younger (and yes, even prettier) it was affirmed that one reason the Japanese economy had grown sluggish was that they took too much time trading business cards and executing formalized conversations.

There's a sweet spot for this. The United States is in it. The Russians are not. There are several who I see in business in West LA, and the cold, off-putting ones only get seen once.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/06/aclu-leader-quits-after-daughters-encounter-men-in-the-womens-restroom.php

The hatred being sent this woman's way shows why bold simple statements go straight to the heart of the matter. From there discussion can take place honestly or as is more typical insults replace reason.

Ever wonder why Bill Murray is praising Paul Feig's abortion?

https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/104704

Huge fractions of their male populations are drinking themselves to death as a retirement plan, and the women aren't doing so well either. ~ Crid at June 11, 2016 9:07 AM

Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, predicted in the 1800s that the world would come down to two options, Russia (darkness) and America (light). Perhaps he saw something in the collective Russian soul that convinced him Russia would not led the world to a brighter future and that hope was to be found across the Atlantic, in a direction away from Moscow.

And yet, the Ukraine, the Baltic States, the DDR, and the other SSR states controlled by Russia and steeped for decades in Soviet-style collectivism are not suffering from this hypermortality.

The author of the first piece thinks the answer is to be found in Soviet-era Russia's depopulation:

"What happened to Russians over the course of the Soviet century that has rendered them incapable of hope? In The Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt argues that totalitarian rule is truly possible only in countries that are large enough to be able to afford depopulation. The Soviet Union proved itself to be just such a country on at least three occasions in the twentieth century—teaching its citizens in the process that their lives are worthless. Is it possible that this knowledge has been passed from generation to generation enough times that most Russians are now born with it and this is why they are born with a Bangladesh-level life expectancy? Is it also possible that other post-Soviet states, by breaking off from Moscow, have reclaimed some of their ability to hope, and this is why even Russia’s closest cultural and geographic cousins, such as Belarus and Ukraine, aren’t dying off as fast? If so, Russia is dying of a broken heart—also known as cardiovascular disease."

In truth, Russia suffered significant depopulations before the Soviets. A Russian peasant's life was forfeit long before Lenin shouted in the streets of St. Petersburg, long before the very first Russian parliament elected Michael Romanov tsar, even long before the Mongol horde invaded the steppes. Over hundreds of years, Russia continually suffered plagues, invasions, fires, wars, famines, and brutal misrule. A people that cosmically thunderstruck has to be shell shocked.

I wonder if the massive population losses of a series of world wars in Europe have left their indelible mark on the European psyche and what we deride as Euroweenie-dom, is really the collective psychic scarring of a continent that watched half its population die in self-inflicted violence.

The hatred being sent this woman's way shows why bold simple statements go straight to the heart of the matter ~ Bob in Texas at June 11, 2016 9:48 AM

What't the old adage? A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged.

Judge Judy not a feminist. Katie Couric freaks out. ~ Patrick at June 11, 2016 12:53 AM

Well, 10% of college students think Judge Judy is on the Supreme Court, so Couric's assumption pales by comparison.

Modern technology has made physicians the most expensive data entry work force on the planet.

China suddenly finds value in its girls.

http://www.eastasiatribune.com/north-asia/china-bans-interracial-marriages-for-females-no-plans-to-restrict-men/

the sexual misery of the arab world

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/opinion/sunday/the-sexual-misery-of-the-arab-world.html?_r=1

I wanted to like Stinky's link much more than it allowed: It was pouty and precious and obvious.

I may have been the translation...

Huge fractions of their male populations are drinking themselves to death as a retirement plan, and the women aren't doing so well either. ~ Crid at June 11, 2016 9:07 AM

A quote from Babylon 5:

"If regret could be harvested, Russia would be the world's fruit-basket."