Manipulation and self-interest suffused relations between the sexes even when gentlemen strode the earth; a few pages of Edith Wharton should disabuse any doubters on that score.
The lengthy article on modern dating, Love in the Time of Darwinism, at City Journal raised several reaction in me while I was reading it.
The only thing I reacted [...]
And now for your intermittently recurring muttering about the extremely religious.
Christianity: The belief that some cosmic Jewish Zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity [...]
Did you see the ACLU press release today about how the American terrorist watch list now has more than one million people on it?
“America’s new million record watch list is a perfect symbol for what’s wrong with this administration’s approach to security: it’s unfair, out-of-control, a waste of resources, treats the rights of the innocent [...]
You know, I’ve always suspected that it wasn’t just that most “nice guys” are insecure, codependent cases. And science has vindicated my suspicion:
New Scientist: Bad guys really do get the most girls
NICE guys knew it, now two studies have confirmed it: bad boys get the most girls. The finding may help explain why a nasty [...]
I knew it all along, but it’s nice to have some science to back it up
Spending on Happiness — HBS Working Knowledge
Can money buy you happiness? Yes—so long as you spend the money on someone else. According to new research, giving other people even as little as $5 can lead to increased well-being for the [...]
One of two things is true: either my sense of humour is regressing, or the quality of the humour purveyed by Cracked in the Internet age is much improved from the last time I read the print magazine (approximately 21 years ago).
I remember Cracked magazine as an inferior reflection of Mad magazine–itself not known for [...]
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