The "problem" is not the drunk but all of those that did not stand up for the victim. You know the one that's not around to say "What about me?". Time to clean house.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/23/more-info-on-how-courts-let-drunk-illegal-go-after-killing-nebraska-woman/

Ivy League crybullies vs. survivor of a Soviet labor camp; guess who needs ’emotional support’?

Volokh Conspiracy at the Washington Post

Nobel Peace Prize update (emphasis mine):

"But here in the center of Aleppo," the doctor says, "there aren't any Free Syrian Army positions. Only civilians. They are bombing us to soften us up for the regime." Assad's troops, he explains, have already taken many surrounding towns and villages and he is afraid that Aleppo will soon be completely surrounded. One thing he is no longer hoping for is external assistance, saying the international community abandoned Syria long ago. "After all, the US supports the attacks," he says.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-siege-of-aleppo-is-an-emblem-of-western-failure-in-syria-a-1077140.html

Rather than try to change the basic nature of boys, why not work with who they are? Consider the all-too-typical case of Justin, a Southern California boy who loved science fiction, pirates and battles. An alarmed teacher summoned his parents to school to discuss a picture the 8-year-old had drawn of a sword fight — which included several decapitated heads. Justin was a well-behaved, normal little boy, but the teacher expressed grave concern about Justin’s values. The boy’s father was astonished, not by his son’s drawing — typical boy stuff — but by the teachers lack of sympathy for his son’s imagination. If boys are constantly subject to disapproval for their interests and enthusiasms they are likely to become disengaged and lag further behind.

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/11/09/do-we-need-to-change-the-way-we-raise-boys/work-with-boys-not-against-their-nature?smid=tw-share

Note: I played "war" games growing up. I have yet to run someone thru with a bayonet. Not that I haven't found temptation, mind you...

Talking about slimy stuff.. Some slimes are more equal than others?

http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/practice/bar-complaints-system-biased-against-men-report-suggests/5053818.article

Wet, Slushy, Slashy links:

http://nypost.com/2016/02/22/why-the-spike-in-slashings-has-new-york-worried/

More and more folks are finding themselves slashed by strangers in Gotham as random knife slashings are up in New York City.

And it seems they are aiming for the victims' faces; often from ear to chin gashes!

Another example of why I believe that the Federal government is hopelessly corrupt:

Former CFPB Lawyer Joins Goldman Sachs Online Lending Unit

Mitch Hochberg, a former financial regulator will lead compliance efforts at Goldman’s digital lending upstart.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/matthewzeitlin/former-cfpb-lawyer-joins-goldman-sachs-online-lending-unit#.rsQZA0RBg

Instapundit has some ideas on how to slow down the aforementioned revolving door:

A few weeks back, I wrote here about taxing the revolving door that takes people back and forth between the federal government and the various industries that federal government agencies regulate. My proposal was to put a surtax -- 50%, say, or maybe 75% -- on the post-government earnings of federal officials in excess of their government salaries for the first five years: Leave a federal job paying $100,000 a year for an industry job paying $600,000 a year, and you'd pay a $250,000 surtax. After all, with folks leaving the Obama administration, as they left previous administrations, for salaries several times what they earned in the public sector, and with excessive entanglement between government and business a growing problem, why not use the power of the IRS to modify behavior?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/03/04/revolving-door-lobby-congress/1960399/

Oh, look, they have safe spaces in Israel:

https://twitter.com/EylonALevy/status/702459392621465600

But I would call those "bomb shelters".

Donald Trump starts to make sense.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/24/politics/donald-trump-political-insider-vice-president/index.html

I heard him admit in an interview that the bombast of Candidate Trump would not be present for President Trump, so he's actually considered how he'll do the job ... if he gets it.

That's somewhat comforting - that he recognized that he can't be a blowhard and an effective president.

Ivy League crybullies vs. survivor of a Soviet labor camp; guess who needs ’emotional support’?

Excerpt from linked article in the linked article:

Members of Students for Justice in Palestine at Brown wrote in a protest article in the Brown Daily Herald, “This is an affront to academic freedom: Brown students should not be exposed to propaganda campaigns executed by state powers, especially colonial state powers.”

Sharansky spoke to some of the protesters before the event, but said, “They don’t want to talk. They want to shout. It’s not about human rights, they want to destroy the state of Israel.”

So, opposing viewpoints are now "propaganda campaigns executed by state powers?"

It's a sad state of affairs when the first university in this country to do away with the then-standard requirement of a religious affiliation for attendance has a student body that refuses to hear a viewpoint different from their own and harasses and old man (microagression? trigger warning?).

And now for something a little lighter: Those Lego people think of everything, don't they? Their newest product, a hipster dad!

Meanwhile development of a robot army continues apace.

Boston Dynamics' bipedal robot, Atlas.