Strange thought that no one will agree with... but is this possibly the result of how the books are written themselves? We're reaching the point in the story where every position of major power in Westeros is very much controlled by women anyway. Tommen is a good kid but Cersei/Margery. Dany controls the other…

Agreed. Reading through the articles (specifically the part where the DA found insufficient evidence to move forward and the school's roughly similar finding) the civil courts may very well be the equalizer. Criminal courts have a high burden of proof by design and some schools may lack the experience or interest…

Ok that graph just made me laugh. Thank you for that. Protip: statistics don't work like that.

Well, there's no need for us to agree on that... different lenses and all. But I tend to put things through a "some people vs. most people" filter. Especially on a place like Reddit or Gawker sites where the entire story is coming from one side. I think it plays to some people's hot buttons which makes it…

It's primarily about CBA because that is a contract "signed" by two parties governing work. It's how in New York public employees in certain areas enjoy less protection than their private sector counterparts and more in others. Both parties signed it in good faith but it means some people can lose their job because…

What is true about Public Sector employees is true about the NFL: they are both collectively bargained. There is no "right to fire" in the NFL because they are governed by a collective bargaining agreement and the contracts that are signed aren't implied. They actually exist.

Wait... Politicians grandstanding a credentialed economist is news? This is a weird case of something so absolutely normal in Washington you can pretty much read anything you want into it.

Unless the couple is mostly asexual which does happen in both men and women and varies with age. Sexless marriage does work with some people because they are intimate different ways. The issue I see here is the mismatch.

Would it have been better? We don't know everything that preceded this other than what the Wife said happened in the e-mail. Are we sure this isn't a response to a different conversation? She describes this whole affair as "completely out of left field." Is that possible? Yes. Is it likely? Would most people…

Pretty much. I can dig maybe the guy is the reason she's not interested most of the time, but then maybe that's ALSO a conversation that should be had. Or maybe she has a libido issue. Or maybe his is so high that it comes off like a drug addict in need of a fix. But in the end, the guy chose to initiate the…

I'm actually shocked they floated UT Dallas as an option. The average enrolling student there has test scores and grades above the UT Austin campus average student.

I'd say my issue would be that while it's valid for some women to have that feeling, the problem it runs up against is (especially when dealing with feminist men), it sort of leaves certain equality issues as verboten which (again, while understandable) causes women who do not have that specific hang up or feminist…

To be fair, I don't think most guys would actually hold it against you. And not for any loftier reason than most people empathize with their own gender first. Whether or not that's good for society as a whole, it seems to be most people's default mode.

Time. Like a lot of issues, people don't really change on it but part of the people who's beliefs are set will die off while the young will probably continue to be split except the young tend to veer towards individual rights in general.

This about a thousand times. Years ago I was in a class where we looked at these numbers and found roughly the same thing. Same sex couples often did about the same as or sometimes better than hetero couples with kids. But how hetero couple's have kids and the conditions of it are on average more variable.

No, I'd find it problematic either way honestly. Finding an extra 5 points on a test through more studying is also optional. But the choice to study more is not different between men and women.

The problem I have with that however is that equality in a place of education is a requirement (and something that can be certainly be appealed if it's readily apparent.) If you acknowledge that the points in a class are necessarily exclusionary in terms of work and commitment (based on sex which is a protected…

Just going to make the point having now read both articles, Berlatzky's dig was how the show deals with men when it does, NOT with the ratio of representation of the show. Most of the article is dedicated to it or specifically the systemic injustice that occurs within the criminal justice system. The…

Do you need to buy? I'm not being flip here. Unless you're actually Catholic, the Pope's primary concern can't be you. And if you are Catholic, unless you're mobilized in some way, you're still not going to matter.

And if he did that, would the existing power structure collapse and splinter off? Realistically speaking, could some believe that people are being removed for ideological or petty reasons? If the answer to that is yes, then the political reality the Pope actually deals with (and that Salon ignores) is that his power…