Wow - it "works" like this when you're out of school, and after it, too - even for individuals:

"In America, the wealthiest school is going to get ten times more funding than the lowest one."

And, using this philosophy, that thing they call "the income gap" has never been closed?

I'd wonder why but, at this point, I'd feel like a fool,...

 

Geez - A feminized, NewAge, society is producing severe anomie - and, somehow, thinks it's the guys who have a problem:

"My patient is not addicted; he’s a very lonely, unemployed young man who has gradually become socially isolated to the extent that the only thing available to him for comfort and entertainment is food. He has no friends, no money to buy other consumables, little education, no partner, no job. Some days he doesn’t leave his bed. The choice for him is to eat this food or experience no pleasure."

They're also into "choice" but get confused when it's anyone else's.

I've got some experience with this:

After my wife and a NewAge quack killed her mother, had an affair, and then killed two others, every NewAger told me - like the Nazi killers into yoga during WWII - I should "move on" to be "happy" (because, obviously, an investigation - and a chance at  justice - is, still, inadequate for the job in their new "non-judgemental" society,...). 

I highly suggest NewAgers write that on this young man's prescription so he can partake, of what's on offer, to make him feel "whole" again (or is it "hole"?) according to feminism.

It's the only NewAge answer for everything they've done.

Made Adolf the man he is today,...

"If the tech scene is really a meritocracy, why are so many of its key players, from Mark Zuckerberg to Steve Jobs, white men?"

Finally agreeing with Glenn Reynolds on something, I think that's the wrong question. The right one is:

If the Mark Zuckerbergs and Steve Jobs-types are so good, why's the internet experience such a fucking suck now? 

Represented by, say, Glenn Reynolds staying popular while making one wrong political call after another, like the recent "win from losing" fiasco? He might as well be Oprah, selling homeopathic "medicines" and anti-vaccine nonsense, as far as the internet "matters" to our lives. And despite the disbelief on Reynolds' part, Silicon Valley is a closed world - even to black millionaires:

"Two sources told Valleywag that West recently attended a dinner packed with venture capitalists at Laurene Powell Jobs' home where West supposedly had the temerity to trot out his tagline: "I'm the next Steve Jobs."

But some say West's efforts to drum up tech money for DONDA have not been fruitful.

…DONDA's road map may be hazy, but is it any more far-fetched than some of the ludicrous pitches propped up Silicon Valley's free flowing capital? Especially from investors who claim to back the founder, not the idea, and embrace failure—West recently said he lost $13 million on business ventures because "I didn't have the knowledge to do it the right way"—as a badge of honor.

West is clearly not waiting around for the Valley,...."

Just like I'm, clearly, not waiting around for Glenn Reynolds to ever decide to tell the truth, or be fair:

And whether I'm doing it the right way or not,...

 

ELLE France's beauty editor, Jeanne Deroo, who is French (the folks who want you to know, despite their disgusting history, are not racist) "honoring" a black person (non-racially) because (after France's long, evil, and bloody racial history) she didn't know she was doing wrong - until someone black told her. I'm surprised she listened then. 

That's how things "work" in totally non-racial environments non-racial blacks (try to) maneuver non-racially - otherwise, they're out of the non-racial jobs the non-racists, like Jeanne Deroo, hold over their trying-to-be-non-racial heads - which is as fair and non-racial as it gets.

BTW - Jeanne Deroo will apologize (has apologized) and the controversy's all over, for her, now.

That's totally fair - by NewAge standards - and completely non-racial,...

Reading/thinking. Thinking/reading - it's nothing but trouble:

"Mr. Jennings, who died in 1874 at age 75, did not discuss his personal difficulties in his memoir, but Ms. Taylor and others say he encountered many hardships. As a slave, he was forced to live apart from his wife and children, who lived on another plantation. And he seems to have chafed under Mrs. Madison’s ownership after her husband died.

Articles in abolitionist newspapers uncovered by researchers at the University of Virginia’s Dolley Madison Digital Edition, an online collection of Mrs. Madison’s correspondence, reported that she treated her slaves poorly. In March 1848, the Liberator newspaper published a letter charging that Mrs. Madison had hired out Mr. Jennings to others and then kept 'the last red cent' of his pay, 'leaving him to get his clothes by presents, night work, or as he might.'

The letter also said Mrs. Madison had refused to free Mr. Jennings, as her husband had wished. Instead, she sold him to an insurance agent, who in turn sold him to Senator Daniel Webster for $120. (He promptly set Mr. Jennings free and let him work off the debt as a servant in his household.)"

My, my - let me tell you what crossed my mind:

Since I know ever more realistic (and, thus, ever more horrifying) images of America are coming - so it's going to get really, really dark out there - can we just cut to the chase and agree that calling history "black," early on, was the right thing to do?

 

Gearing up for it:

"Of course we’re doing better than chattel slavery. Of course we’re doing better than legal segregation. But what material benefit do we get from the comparison?"

150 years after Frederick Douglas' mane, black people are still getting in trouble with whites over our hair. That's the limits of our  freedom. The wealth created by the labor of millions for centuries, under torture, has been declared,...disappeared, putting America on pretty shaky psychological footing - not to mention, grinding it's dishonesty into the soil. A dishonesty the exploited already knew quite well and, so, expected.

"The help would often have a private chuckle about what we had heard, and how obvious it was that those speaking must have thought what they were saying went over our heads. We had schoolteachers working as maids,..."

Ahem. "We had"? Who was "had"? We're trending!

"Wisconsin Followed Trend As U.S. Sent Higher Rate of Black Men to Prison"

Go on, Y'all, do your thing - it's cool. I've already been made aware of how this works:

It's their word over centuries of evidence.

My life Vs. their beliefs.

Whatever they may be.

It's simply never been different, and a safe bet it would always be so,...

 

Science - today:

“All the data shows it isn't about poor people, it’s about people who happen to be in poverty. All the data suggests it is not the person, it's the context they’re inhabiting.”

The Crack Emcee - four days ago:

"There is no context.



As soon as you guys can make that true - that there's no 400 years of underlying/surrounding/historical data, that you're willingly excluding in order to feel comfortable with your outdated ideas, and blacks are merely imagining the obstinence guys (who look just like you) gladly parade - you'll be justified in what you say."

Really - we're waiting on you to make that happen,...,...

But, to be honest, a low-cut top would have sold this argument,...

Cotton: The Fabric of Our Lives

For consumers with a  conscience, they are top of the shopping list.

But it seems free-range eggs may not be all they are cracked up to be. According to researchers, hens kept indoors in cages lead happier lives.

A study found birds raised in ‘enriched cages’ enjoyed lower levels of stress and mortality, and were less likely to suffer from bone fractures or pecking than free-range chickens.

Demand for free-range eggs, which cost almost double the caged equivalent, has risen steeply as a result of high-profile campaigns.

“Republicans love people who have money”

“40% Of Veterans Need Food Assistance”

Don't forget, until white feminists dreamed of entering the workplace, it wasn't done in the West:

“To begin with, then, I should say that more than two-thirds of the negroes of the town where I live are menial servants of one kind or another, and besides that more than two-thirds of the negro women here, whether married or single, are compelled to work for a living,--as nurses, cooks, washerwomen, chambermaids, seamstresses, hucksters, janitresses, and the like. I will say, also, that the condition of this vast host of poor colored people is just as bad as, if not worse than, it was during the days of slavery. Tho today we are enjoying a nominal freedom, we are literally slaves. And, not to generalize, I will give you a sketch of the work I have to do--and I'm only one of many.”

"Nominal freedom":

A good description for how American History's taught today, too,...

 

It takes some people a long time to grasp their surroundings, including those around them:

 I have,...become convinced that very few people in America really understand the basic principles of the insurance business. They do not understand the concept of risk. They believe the liberal propaganda that insurance companies are just plain mean to charge the sick more for health coverage, for example. They believe that insurance company profits are way out of line with other industries.

They believed Obamacare would stop all that and replace it with a “fairer” system. And they believed in unicorns.

I'm talking a very long time:

The crime is ever pretending it was otherwise,...