"As of today, Barack Obama’s presidency is half over. If that’s not enough to cheer you up..."

"... try heading over to the Insta-Wife’s new site, Helen’s Page, where you can commiserate or whatever with others who feel the same w...

"Men try harder, because they know that women want men who earn more."

"Women don’t because they know that men have different priorities, and because they want to quit the rat-race at some point and have ki...

Why are gun-death statistics inflated with gun-suicide numbers?

"I thought we had a right to die...." Obviously, one reason is: to get bigger numbers. But I think the people that lump gun deaths...

"If there were equal justice under the law, what would be the point of being a Very Important Person?"

Asks Glenn Reynolds after quoting me on David Gregory and equal justice under the law. I'm working on my song parody: David Gregory had...

"SYMPATHY FOR THE NICE GUYS OF OKCUPID."

That all-caps at Instapundit comes across as a comic misspelling of "Occupied," but the nice guys in question are at OKCupid. I...

"More intelligence and fewer offspring?"

"Perhaps Idiocracy was stating a more general rule...." But another thing... When it comes to humans, for example, though our bra...

"The Elvis Problem: Defining Religion Under The First Amendment."

Instapundit weighs in on the Kwanzaa question I brought up yesterday . And I want to drag something I wrote in my own comments section up t...

In discussing what makes a job the "least stressful"...

... consider that, in this context, the opposite of stress is control . Is that true? For some, I would think, too much control would lead t...

"Putting kids together and sorting by age also created that dysfunctional creature, the 'teenager.'"

"Once, teen-agers weren’t so much a demographic as adults-in-training." They worked, did farm chores, watched children and general...

"Intimidation: NY Newspaper Publishes Names, Addresses of Gun Permit Holders."

"I guess nobody could object to people putting the newspaper staff’s addresses on the Web now, right?, says Instapundit , and as I clic...

"Malignant cells have not completely forgotten how to be healthy; they just need the right cues to guide them back to a healthy growth pattern."

Which is why squeezing breasts might stop cancer. Via Instapundit who says , "They haven’t done human trials yet, but I say: Why take c...

Prof. Jacobson is refraining from tokenism.

1. "I would never be so insulting as to accuse the NY Times of tokenism." 2. "I would never be so insulting as to accuse the ...

"Gallup: More Americans Favor School Officials Having Guns Than Weapon Ban."

"See, states like Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, which are looking at arming teachers, are just in touch with America . Why is Barack ...

"Maybe she can get one of those Wisconsin doctors to write her a fake note."

Instapundit's intro to "Where’s Hillary’s Medical Report?" Here 's my original 2/19/11 report on the doctors offering to ...

Why are people having so much trouble understanding rhetorical devices?

You may remember Justice Scalia the other day tweaking the kids at Princeton for not being able to handle r eductio ad absurdum : It's ...

"What is the gun community going to do about this tragedy?"

"I dunno. What is the gay community going to do about Penn State?”

"Strangles"?

Really ? Where's the strangling? Calling speech offensive is more speech, not censorship. Via Instapundit , who quotes the headline that...

Lawprof blogs.

Ranked by traffic. ADDED: A poll, suggested by the fact that while I'm still #1 — on this list that doesn't include Instapundit — my...

"Why Is Higher Education So Expensive?"

Interesting video (featured at Instapundit ), which seems smart in spite of the error-filled English subtitles throughout the presentation, ...

"[T]he reason shoes are especially appealing is that unlike dresses, jackets, or sweaters, they still fit if you gain ten pounds."

"At least, that’s my conclusion as to why women are crazy about shoes," says Instapundit , claiming authority as a former shoe sal...