Scotland : Partying with Bostonians South Korea: Getting drunk with Mexicans Freddy: Red carpet tour through the South England:

If you pay close attention, you will see that the most masculine man has a feminine soul, and the most feminine woman has a masculine soul. — Carl Jung

New pod: OLD-IGARCHY I talked to @samuelmoyn about his new book GERONTOCRACY IN AMERICA and whether it is extremely and unforgivably ageist to be alarmed about several facts about the state of America, including but not limited to: 1. Boomers have so dominated American politics that we've had more presidents born in the summer of 1946 (three: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump) than born in all years after 1946 (one: Barack Obama, 1961). 2. In the S&P 500, chief executives are ten-times more likely to be over 70 years old than under 40. 3. Since 2000, households headed by adults older than 65 improved their median net worth by 42 percent, while older workers have increased their wages relative to younger workers by about 60% in that period 4. Today more than 50% of all federal spending -- through social security, medicare, and parts of medicaid -- is for the elderly, about 7x more than federal spending on Americans under 18 5. In many cases, NIMBY is frequently GNIMBY with a silent G for gerontocratic, given how frequently the loudest opposition to new housing comes from elderly homeowners blocking development that would make it easier to younger people to move youtube.com/watch?v=l8Gvc9IA…

Fyodor Dostoevsky once wrote: "i want to talk about everything with at least one person the way i talk about things with myself."

Why do Republicans hate that California counts every vote?

Feminists think the horror film 'Obsession' is about the toxicity of the Nice Guy; the manosphere argues that it proves women are crazy. But it’s much deeper and better than that, argues Kat Rosenfield. thefp.com/p/the-ideologues-a…

that's exactly my position in this prior piece for WIRED, in which I cover exploitative and unscientific "treatments" for autism, ranging from dietary interventions to seriously dangerous things like chelation and bleach enemas one of the points I keep trying to make in the LC space, though, is that the mind-body stuff simply DOES NOT get the same treatment as, say, cranio-cervical surgeries (!!!!) as an intervention for ME/CFS, or hEDS (which one ME/CFS advocate, Edwards, refers to as "being a bit bendy," I'd love to see him write an op-ed defending that! lol) anyways, that's a wildly dangerous surgery, surely as dangerous as a mind-body therapy, but at best the skepticism is gentle, there isn't a mass movement trying to destroy the exploitative neurosurgeons offering these extremely expensive surgeries, or hounding the patients who get them, or who claim improvements from them and that, I argue, is because such surgeries (and such recovery stories) don't threaten the legitimacy of the illness wired.com/2015/04/alternativ…