Gawker does its part to get people to notice the McCain gambling Times article: [link]

OK, I did the thing I was supposed to do on Friday, and now I feel like I'm just done. And I can't decide if it's tacky to have the leftovers from the breakfast for the meeting for my lunch.

SEVEN TIMES.

Another quote from that article:

'For the first time, in a historic experiment in our society, we have more women than men emerging from university. The majority of young people not in education, employment or training are men.

'Of course the world is changing, and it's fantastic it is. But the fact is that even if men want to be the breadwinner, they are no longer being given the opportunity of being the breadwinner.

Huh? Those men had the opportunity to go to college, right? So is this guy saying that men without college degrees should earn more money than women with degrees?

It's those ballbusting women emasculating our men!

Sure! Why not!?

I'm not sure "fault" is the right word here, but yeah, why wouldn't it be?

Where I take issue is the idea that women having JOBS that require EDUCATION is causing society to suddenly implode in a fiery ball of gender issues.

I'm cold and my head hurts. Neither or which are my fault.

I'm cold and my wrist hurts. That last one might be my fault though.

I'm glad this is all coming to fruition during the Cheney/Bush Administration which should make it that much harder to claim it wasn't their policies that brought things to this point.

My ultraconservative habitual spammer of a cousin sent me an email forward claiming that the economic crisis was created by the Ds in Congress. The argument is (seriously) that when the Rs were in charge in both houses, the economy was fine, but the Ds have ruined it by trying to (seriously) overregulate Wall Street. I (again) asked her to stop sending me her spam from wishfulthinkingland and took the time to explain how deregulation works, who was responsible for it, and why most economists think that the Bush Administration's economic policies have been unsound since day one. Not that she read my reply.

The collapse of the family is being driven by a 'Bridget Jones generation' of well-educated young women who cannot find a suitable match, a senior Conservative claimed yesterday.

Shadow universities secretary David Willetts said that, for the first time, more women than men were gaining degrees - meaning many struggled to find a partner with an academic background and career prospects like their own.

So there are too many smart women who cannot find mates? In theory this would eventually be a self-correcting problem. In the short term I suppose there are three solutions, make fewer smart, ambitious women, make more smart, ambitious men, or more gay women.

How do you have fewer smart, less ambitious, women? I dunno, for sure. Distribute free easy bake ovens? Outlaw doctor Barbie dolls? Not really getting any good ideas there.

More smart men. Eliminate Spike TV, easy.

More gay women. Maybe subsidize sales of Subarus and Volvos? Maybe, but that might just lead to more Australian immigrants and liberals.

I wish warmth and lack of hurtness upon the cold and hurt of our number.