1st February 2014
Read it.
The United States government paid for a study to analyze a Defense Department study that evaluated a series of other studies.
This really happened.
How much taxpayer money did the government spend in order to study a study of its studies?
Answer: The government doesn’t know.
I am not making this up.
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1st February 2014
Steve Sailer has some fun with the Mouth of the Crust.
New York Times columnist Charles Blow discovers a new engine fueling the War on Women: having female loved ones makes men more sexist. Apparently, being around women they love causes males to notice average differences between men and women, and Noticing, as we’ve all been warned, leads to conservatism.
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1st February 2014
Read it.
There was a NY Times article about this earlier this week. The obvious conclusion, at least to me, is that weight is genetic and there’s not much that the government can do to stop people from becoming fat if it’s in their genes. Although I do think that increasing availability of food stamps has contributed to the problem. People who can’t afford to buy food don’t get fat.
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