So I was reading a bunch of aggravating commentary about Justice Sotomayor (especially Patrick Buchanan's bile-inducing rant) and I couldn't stop thinking about it all day.  This morning I woke up with a bunch of ideas in my head so I decided to write them down and out came some ideas about the problems with the meritocracy and why I think most ( Read more... )

When I was an up-and-coming newspaper writer, I was assigned to work with a high school intern who talked a lot about how she didn’t want to have premarital sex. Listening to her go on about why she was avoiding “the act” seemed harmless enough. So why did I get uncomfortable whenever she brought up the topic? Because, I later realized, that by ( Read more... )