https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1025537770746535936

A democracy is two guys and a girl voting on who she is going to be forced to fuck first

A constitutional representative republic with a bill of rights is two dead rapists and an informed voter

This is imperfect but genuine fun.

Wonderful color work on B/W photos

https://twitter.com/DrEmmaWarbrick/status/1025700076981772288

Laugh of the day -

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DjxFJUMW4AADyUp.jpg

Censorship is free speech -

http://www.newseum.org/press-info/press-releases/pr/345/

Two wonderful articles from the New York Times, indicating where feminism's frontier is.

1. It's misogyny and not choice when women or couples opt for having a family and kids early rather than going to college and delaying both

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/04/upshot/up-birth-age-gap.html

The Age That Women Have Babies: How a Gap Divides America

“These education patterns do help drive inequality, because well-educated women are really pulling ahead of the pack by waiting to have kids,” said Caroline Hartnett, a sociologist and demographer studying fertility and families at the University of South Carolina. “But if going to college and achieving an upper-middle-class lifestyle seems unattainable, then having a family might seem like the most accessible source of meaning to you.”

2. Feminists in Line for Free Lipstick
Nothing says “I’m a woman” like a red lip. But a red lip costs $18.50 plus tax.

[TW: Pink tax, wage gap]

We were in a line that wrapped halfway around a city block, and we were talking about color: red versus pink, shimmery versus matte. One woman liked that peach gloss Michelle Obama goes for; another thought Meghan Markle had a nice defined nude thing going.

...

A curly-haired little girl with a tiny gold purse, waiting with her mom farther up the line, dashed past us and back again. We would all be standing there a half-hour later when her dad stopped by in a football jersey to take her home for her nap, and her voice would lift into a wail, her arms stretched back toward the crowd of women whose choice of Sunday morning activity suggested a shared commitment to both femininity and thrift.

It’s not easy to commit to both. Femininity is expensive. A tube of MAC lipstick costs $18.50 plus tax and, with nothing pressing on my day’s schedule, it seemed practical to take advantage of a free lipstick deal.

It feels good to get that small win, especially since capitalism so often makes us the losers. Women’s products cost on average 7 percent more than men’s, a disparity known as the “pink tax” because many of the things we’re buying are virtually identical, except that they’re pink. The widest gap I’ve seen was a sparkly pink kids’ Radio Flyer scooter that cost $49.99, when the exact same model in red was $24.99.

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Why wear lipstick at all? I don’t usually, but I’ve been trying to wear it more often as I get older and vie for higher-paying jobs. It’s a strategy, and it works

...

As the journalist Danielle Kurtzleben put it, “You’re paying extra to play a made-up role that society pays you less for inhabiting.”

...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/03/opinion/pink-tax-feminism-lipstick.html

Meanwhile, in Amy's home state of Michigan:

'Ultimate Form of Civilization Jihad' Planned for Michigan City

Meanwhile, in Amy's home state of Michigan

Meanwhile in China:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/china-s-xinjiang-province-a-surveillance-state-unlike-any-the-world-has-ever-seen-a-1220174.html

See that shirt that says Fake News Network? What if instead you replace those words with Cable News Television?

It would make for an interesting acronym.

https://twitter.com/jeffjarvis/status/1025482535390924808

Scroll down and see those retweets.

https://twitter.com/meme_america

Oh well. That account is gone.

Good thing there's an archive of it:

http://archive.is/ctGPY

Psychology

Fashion

They're so adorable at that age

I've always felt that AF1 wasn't nipply enough.