yet another blog break...

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Probably no real posts from me until early April - just too busy.

In the meantime you (yes even the spambots which are almost exclusively the readership of this blog) may enjoy reading Gary Younge's barnstorming Guardian column on bravery and political correctness. And Paul Krugman has an excellent look at the health care crisis in the US in this NYROB article.

Girl In the North Country

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I just went and saw North Country and it was a powerful movie. Powerful enough to inspire me to read about it some more on the internet - and I stumbled across this summary of the true story. Enraging, sad and worth reading: simply to get some tiny idea what those women went through.

In this "post-feminist" age it is far too easy to take for granted the achievements of feminism; and to forget just how much more needs to be achieved. To do so would be a huge injustice.

if we were serious about the "war on terror"...

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Can someone please explain to me why this front of the war on terror hasn't been fought on more vigorously? Conflict of interests perhaps?

More On Lott

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Tim Lambert has written a special post to help celebrate John Lott's arrival in New Zealand. Lambert has spent much time debunking Lott's "research" (remember the conference that Lott will be talking at claims to be about "solid research, not pious hopes"), and Lambert's latest post is worth a read as it links to other posts explaining the flaws in the particular "research" that Lott will be talking about while here.