I left this comment over at GL Piggy’s, on a post about election predictions. I think it is worth reprinting here (with additional commentary) because of its timeliness. PA: “In reality, young white women’s pro-Obama leanings are a factor of their feminine/nurturer pity for a omegas for which “poor blacks,” “inner city single moms” and […]
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Baumeister, the primary coauthor behind the seminal 2004 paper titled “ Sexual Economics : Sex as Female Resource for Social Exchange in Heterosexual Interactions”, has released online the latest addition to that work, titled “ Sexual Economics, Culture, Men, and Modern Sexual Trends “, another steely-eyed examination of the sexes that pretty much validates the […]
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This question comes up regularly at Le Chateau. You’ve got two schools of thought. The first insists that smarts, like any other positive attribute, can only raise a man’s dating market value because women are hypergamous and appreciate a smarter man than themselves. The other school says that women are put off by men who […]
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Power has an effect on the brain almost identical to cocaine . More than a hundred years after noted historian Baron John Acton coined the phrase ‘power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely’ scientists claim the saying is biologically true. The feeling of power has been found to have a similar effect on […]
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When privy to the secretive, gated world of women, you learn that the idea of relationship leverage — aka “having hand” — is as well-known and accepted among women as it is among pickup artists and naturals. Women are no innocent angels, passively idling their time like pretty mannequins until a good man sweeps them […]
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Charles Murray addresses critics of his book “Coming Apart: The State of a Politically Acceptable Bell Curve” who complain that he didn’t focus enough on economic factors driving the disintegration of lower class whites. He presents data in this Open Borders Journal article that shows working class men have been dropping out of the job […]
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Over at Cheap Chalupas Central, asdf comments on an assertion by Charles Murray, regarding conclusions from his book “Coming Apart”, that falling marriage rates and rising single mom rates are due solely or mostly to men dropping out and eschewing marital responsibility: Murray: “If you are arguing that 22-year-old men are saying to their girlfriends, […]
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Barack Obama, June 4, 2008 ( via Mangan’s ): Now let me be clear. Israel’s security is sacrosanct. It is non-negotiable. . . . Any agreement with the Palestinian people must preserve Israel’s identity as a jewish state, with secure, recognized, defensible borders. Barack Obama, January 6, 2012 : Illegal immigrants closely related to U.S. […]
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Debt and changing demographics are intricately entwined. Any economist who doesn’t include in his analysis of the causes of exhorbitant debt, stagnation, unemployment and declining happiness the unrelenting force of demographic change is doing his profession, and his readers, a disservice. Judging by the vanishingly small number of economists who take an honest look at […]
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In yesterday’s post , Days of Broken Arrows made the following observation: “Fatties also have a problem of unreasonable standards. I don’t think I’ve ever met a fat chick who was not convinced that she was still entitled to a 99-point checklist [Ed: 463 bullet point checklist is the term of art] and a man […]
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