Good. It's about time. Students who deplatformed a speaker are now facing expulsion.

Oh my God, the description on Ken #8 bwahahaha.

https://www.autostraddle.com/75-ken-dolls-ranked-by-lesbianism-383518/

He was a Democrat, too, Johnny.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/268240/

How's that fight for $15 coming? oh, this is totally unexpected.

McDonald's shares hit an all-time high on Tuesday as Wall Street expects sales to increase from new digital ordering kiosks that will replace cashiers in 2,500 restaurants.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/20/mcdonalds-hits-all-time-high-as-wall-street-cheers-replacement-of-cashiers-with-kiosks.html

He's a maniac, maniac on the pool:

https://mobile.twitter.com/KristinaLuca/status/877929322664906752

Should have been blue-haired though

https://mobile.twitter.com/joshhamwright/status/878136787012468737

David Brooks: "Mis-Educating the Young"

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/opinion/mis-educating-the-young.html

Ralph Nader on why people love Trump (amusing):

http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/06/22/reflections-trump-voter-who-still-loves-president-trump/uH1dbdJGEqjgc1nCusXdfI/story.html

Please let me know if the link doesn't work.

You may have heard by now...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/23/bill-cosby-plans-town-halls-on-avoiding-sexual-assault-accusations-his-publicists-claim/?utm_term=.7475b6aad390#comments

And before anyone sneers at the comments in the article from the RAINN representative, I'd like to ask: Do we ever sneer at the idea of "teaching" young people not to become serial drunken drivers? Even when we're addressing teens whose PARENTS are serial drunken drivers? I.e., teens who are likely alcoholic already? Of course not - we just don't necessarily call it "teaching." Nor do we think it's going to be an easy job. Anyone knows that the threat of jail is often not enough for such teens; they have to WANT to stop. Driving drunk is not a profit crime, after all. In the same vein, aside from all the young men who honestly don't understand why they can't legally force a woman into sex once they've already had consensual sex with her (or once they've paid for dinner or dated her for a year), if there are certain teen boys who are more at risk than other boys to become cold-blooded serial predators, since innocent people are at stake (as with DUIs), it's everyone's job to figure out WHO is at risk and turn their lives around before it's too late, and hang the expense. Even if it means taking more boys away from violent single mothers - or fathers, for that matter.

There's that stench of misandry again ...

Oh, hi, Lenona.

Can we teach girls not to make fake rape allegations?

Can we teach blacks not to be gangsters?

Etc.

Pretrial preparation for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's court-martial continue apace. Will defense counsel be able to ask prospective jurors if they voted for Trump? Nope, said the military judge.

I wonder if prospective jurors' voting record comes up in civilian courts?

No, it's not about Trump:

The researchers also suspect the traits exhibited by Skywalker might make him more appealing and relatable to teen fans, given that teens may also display certain characteristics of borderline personality disorder.

https://www.livescience.com/10679-psychology-darth-vader-revealed.html

That is pretty perfect Sixclaws. We have a psychologist analyzing a fictional patient and deciding 'the magic vodo' wasn't his problem but instead a mental disorder. He even prescribed a treatment after the patient was dead. All I can say is I'm glad he isn't my doctor.

Jay R, I think it's odd you didn't say anything about little kids - and teens, male and female alike - who make false molestation claims against any adult they don't like, whenever anger (such as getting a failing grade from a teacher), fear or greed motivate them to do so.

(If even teens didn't used to do that half a century ago, it's likely because they didn't have the correct vocabularies - and/or thought that only strangers could be arrested for that type of behavior. Nowadays, every child over age three or so knows what to say. I remember a British memoir by a gay man who said that, in the 1970s, some preteen boys on the street - whom he didn't know - tried to extort money from him by threatening to make false accusations.)

In other words, John Rosemond may well have been right when he said in 2015 that "toddlers are cute little sociopaths." I.e., almost all kids start life as sociopaths. It's just a matter of making sure they don't grow up that way.

Correction - that anecdote I mentioned happened in 1968, not the 1970s.

Nothing good comes from making video of yourself fucking.

Does anyone else think that this sounds like summer 1970 Beatles-collapse music, maybe Harrison or Badfinger?

Naw, Crid.

If that woman was willing to accuse the man of rape even when she knew for a fat he had a video disproving her lies she probably would have accused him of rape regardless.

At least this way there is evidence that her claims were false and her exhortation to murder were calculated which can be used against her in her murder trail. A trail that probably would never happen if not for that tape

Okay, so what's a tower block?

Maybe socialized housing sucks.

These are tower blocks:

http://www.boredpanda.com/big-blocks-of-flats-in-china/

"Apartments." This was Woodward's in the movie set in DC 40 years ago.

Forgot to say: It's hardly MY fault that Cosby's trial has been in the front section of most newspapers for the last month - or that maybe parents of children/teens are likely thinking harder than they used to about how to convince kids that being highly popular or rich doesn't give you the moral or legal right to commit even one crime in a lifetime. Or how to talk to their kids about consent.

(More than one person has complained that when modern parents say "I just want my kid to be happy" they're making it sound as though being an honest, independent, USEFUL citizen is less important.)

Also: In a century where parents refuse to believe THEIR precious offspring could lie about anything, it should be clear by now that there are multiple ways for kids to lie and get adults in trouble with the law, without even mentioning sexual abuse - IF the parents are dumb enough to believe everything their kids say. The kids can plant drugs in the teacher's purse, accuse a store clerk who yelled at them of hitting them in some location where there weren't any cameras (and bribe a friend or two to claim they "witnessed" it), frame an adult for stealing or being an alcoholic...the list goes on and on. Reminds me of the classic 1936 movie "These Three" in which a nasty girl who doesn't want to go to school at all falsely accuses a male teacher and a female teacher of having an affair, which was enough to get them fired, IIRC.

One point I was trying to make is that almost ANY five-year-old can understand why stealing, violence, and malicious lying are always seriously wrong, IF parents bother to make the effort to teach them empathy, over and over, but it's not at all the same thing when it comes to convincing heterosexual teenage boys that there really is such a thing as unwanted sex and why it's always illegal. (Gay boys generally don't need to be taught that; they KNOW that if they make overtures to the wrong teen, they will suffer violence or worse.) Which is why these things need to be spelled out, as in "how would you feel if a man attacked you and just laughed when you screamed no?"

(The last time I suggested that, I received some incredible hostility here. No idea why.)

Finally, while it's true that the parents of serial predators or serial drunken drivers are often just as bad and thus are no help in reforming the kids, all the more reason for outsiders to get involved and do the work before it's too late. You don't see cops telling sober drivers to stay off the road.

"(The last time I suggested that, I received some incredible hostility here. No idea why.)"

Because anyone who is going to do that is already doing that and has been doing that for ~100 years.

"You don't see cops telling sober drivers to stay off the road."

Yes you do. Cops advise people to not drive when the bars close. You are at a very high risk of getting hit by a drunk driver.

or that maybe parents of children/teens are likely thinking harder than they used to about how to convince kids that being highly popular or rich doesn't give you the moral or legal right to commit even one crime in a lifetime.

Which is why these things need to be spelled out, as in "how would you feel if a man attacked you and just laughed when you screamed no?"

I'll admit that I havent really been paying attention to the Cosby trial. But from what I have heard its one person who accused him offically, and prosecuters spent more time discussing the fact that Cosby once admitted to trading drugs for sex and tried to pretend that meant her raped women as opposed to paid prostitutes in goods rather than cash

"(The last time I suggested that, I received some incredible hostility here. No idea why.)"

Because anyone who is going to do that is already doing that and has been doing that for ~100 years.
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Explain? Just because some parents bother to spell things out to their sons doesn't mean most parents do - because they want to believe THEIR sons automatically understand that the laws apply to everyone and that unwanted sex is not a myth.
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"You don't see cops telling sober drivers to stay off the road."

Yes you do. Cops advise people to not drive when the bars close. You are at a very high risk of getting hit by a drunk driver.

Ben at June 24, 2017 6:50 PM
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Then they don't do it on TV that much. I said SEE, not hear. E.g., every time a big-party holiday weekend comes up, the cops go on the Friday six o'clock news to warn potential DRUNK drivers that all eyes will be on them and so they'd better not drive drunk in the first place. Any adult who wasn't planning on drinking anyway knows perfectly well, from watching that, that drunk drivers will be a threat that weekend and that cops can only do so much to stop them, but it doesn't change the fact that sober people very much need to travel and often at night. (If the cops' warnings are the other way around when it comes to daily bar closings, I'd need to see proof - cops wouldn't want drunks to get even bolder about driving than they already are.)

It's all in HOW you issue a warning, not just what you say.