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Climate’s not the only thing changing
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Rod Dreher
Thought-provoking piece on Slate today about a NOAA report forecasting what’s facing the weather agency between now and 2035. Slate writer Jim Tankersley takes the data and foresees climate-driven social and political change coming down the road. Excerpt: Mass migrations have historically triggered power shifts in American politics–to the West in the late 1800s, to…
Word of the moment: Yaka-wow!
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Rod Dreher
Boing Boing explains why we’ve all got to start working “yaka-wow” into our daily conversation. For example:
An ape in a wig with sad blue eyes
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Rod Dreher
Is there anything the writer William T. Vollmann won’t try for the sake of a good story? He visits a Japanese make-up artist who caters to Japanese businessmen who secretly want to cross-dress. He discovers, among other things, that the greatest cosmetic obstacle to men looking like women is “coarse skin.” More: She selects a…
Why are inner-city Americans poor?
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Rod Dreher
Heather Mac Donald, writing in City Journal, criticizes a New York City program to help the poor by giving them cash rewards for constructive behavior, saying it’s built on a misunderstanding of why inner-city Americans (versus, say, Mexicans) are poor. Excerpt: Of course, it’s ludicrous to suppose that what keeps America’s inner-city residents poor across…
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