Some useful stats on the frequency of false rape accusations:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2006/05/02/false-rape-accusations-may-be-more-common-than-thought.html

"Scientists discover protein blockers that may function as ‘the pill’ for men"

http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discover-protein-blockers-could-double-as-the-pill-for-men

The Weekly Standard wryly notes that the American Library Association’s banned books week forgot some entries:

Yet what intrigues me about Banned Books Week publicity, and the likely political agenda over at ALA headquarters, is not what it features but what it excludes. For there is, in fact, an ongoing effort to ban books in America in 2015—that is, to exclude them from classroom reading lists, if not prevent their publication and sale – but it is taking place not on school boards in our nation’s rural communities but on college campuses in some of the most progressive and sophisticated communities in the United States. At Columbia University in Manhattan, for example, Ovid’s Metamorphoses has been excluded from the syllabus because of objections about sexual violence and replaced with—irony alert!—Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon. Rutgers is considering the attachment of required “trigger warnings” for The Great Gatsby and Huckleberry Finn, and based on individual complaints, innumerable other colleges and universities are pondering the future of such works as Mrs. Dalloway or The Merchant of Venice on student reading lists.

This is exactly the same process that agitates the ALA and its friends during Banned Books Week—disaffected citizens seeking the suppression of classic works because of their personal objections to them—and yet, mysteriously, the American Library Association makes no mention of this growing menace to free speech and the freedom to read, and to great literature, not to mention literacy.

Now, why is that?

And in the "I think I can do that job"entry, Edina, MN schools are hiring a recess consultant.

Reminds me of the Dilbert cartoon: I like to con people, I like to insult people, I know, I'll combine them!

Hi, I'm here to consult you.
Sounds expensive and demeaning. OK!

Did some fascinating reading on "learned Helplessness" (Dr Seligman) today for a CE. It does seem to explain a lot, about so many minorities, esp in the cities. For one, I've ever understood people who live in squalor-it doesn't take money to clean or throw away garbage. I mean, drug addicts, yeah, they simply don't care. But so many poor seem to just live worse than rats, and I never understood why. Its interesting reading, if you've got a few mins and google.

" It does seem to explain a lot, about so many minorities, esp in the cities. "

Not white people, though. We're totally awesome.

Totally awesome, no, but more likely to try to affect positive change in our own lives than inner city residents? Absolutely.

"Totally awesome, no, but more likely to try to affect positive change in our own lives than inner city residents? Absolutely."

And only icky minorities live in the inner city, of course.