February 2012
“The decline in young home owners is a puzzling trend. Interest rates have steadily declined over the last 30 years. Mortgage lending has loosened. Women have ascended in the workplace and supplemented their spouse’s earnings. How in the face of all of these positive developments did home ownership among the young keep falling?”
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Derek Thompson, “The End of Ownership: Why Aren’t Young People Buying More Houses?” (via theatlantic)
This is not a difficult question. Most of us are not so entrenched that we intend to be in one place 5+ years. Everyone knows there’s no point to buying a home if you can’t stay at least 5 years. The job market is transient, as are we young people. The housing bubble collapsed, in part due to the fact that young people caught on to the absolute racket that is home ownership, and the fact that it’s a losing proposition.
So I guess today is going to be filled with pictures and gifs of jumping people.
“The scientists by large know more liberal arts, than the science known by liberal artists and that needs to change. If you go to a science cocktail party and someone talks about Shakespeare no one is gonna say “Oh I was never good at Shakespeare! I was terrible in nouns and verbs!” No, you’ll never hear that. But if you go to a liberal art party, an artists party, and someone start talking about math it’s all “Oh I was never good at math, I hated math” and they all chuckle and all agree, and all like sip the next sip of champagne and go on talking about the art and that’s somehow ok. No that’s not ok.”
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I agree. But it really makes me sad when I hear scientists saying that literature is useless because it’s all about unreal stories, or that art in general is meaningless because is subjective. It’s not ok this either.
(via scipsy)
I’m tired of hearing that “science is hard” from those in the liberal arts. And I’m tired of scientists who think everything in the liberal arts is useless or easy. Amen.
(via sciencingsara)
1200 cals/day was way easier 20 years ago. geez I must be getting old.
Third student dies in Chardon school shooting →
dispatch.com
A Cleveland hospital says another student wounded in an Ohio high school shooting has died, bringing the death toll to three.
MetroHealth System said Tuesday that Demetrius Hewlin died Tuesday morning. He had been in critical condition.
This is nauseating. How many kids are seriously injured and killed vs how many people successfully use a gun “for personal defense” per year? I’m guessing at least 10 kids’ lives ruined per one bozo defending his trailer from an intruder.
In case you were on the fence about whether or not Paypal sucks... →
huffingtonpost.com
Paypal is engaging in Santorum/Duggar-grade censorship. Click through to be aggravated.
Pop stars working the web →
guardian.co.uk
Re-thinking music irl, what works, what doesn’t, who did you miss?
Birth Control Pills recalled by the FDA →
fda.gov
Ladies - click through for details and check your stash. Don’t want any surprises.
Do you want to play a game?
He says excuse me, I hope you don’t mind
that I followed you into this shop
but I couldn’t help but notice that riding crop
Sticking out of your haversack,
Um, I wouldn’t mind riding you bareback.
I see some sort of fuzzy pet in my not-so-distant future…
Women quit careers in science to be parents →
blogs.babycenter.com
As a woman who quit her career in science to be a parent, I would have to concur with the blog AND the comments. I don’t think there is a relatively easy policy fix, though. You pick your poison, choose your position and commit. No one in any career gets to have it all “as previously described.” The media has been selling this fantasy fallacy ever since women left the home on a full time basis.
Oh sure, like your Google search box never contains any sort of query for cartoon theme song lyrics?
Indian High Court Rules That the Decision to Abort a Pregnancy Rests with the Wife, Not the Husband →
thehindu.com
In a significant decision, the Punjab and Haryana High Court last week ruled that the right to abort a pregnancy in a marriage rests with the wife and not husband.
“A woman is not a machine in which raw material is put and a finished product comes out. She should be mentally prepared to conceive, continue the same and give birth to a child. The unwanted pregnancy would naturally affect the mental health of the pregnant woman…” said the court.
Stressing that marital intimacy between a couple does not automatically translate to the woman’s consent to child bearing, Justice Jitendra Chauhan said, “Mere consent to conjugal rights does not mean consent to give birth to a child for her husband.” Welcoming the judgement, Jagmati Sanwan, All India Democratic Women’s Association national vice-president said, “If the family conditions are unsuitable, no woman would like to give birth to a child because after all, she is the one who takes care of the children for all practical purposes. We see around us that fathers often desert their families after a couple of deliveries. But children become a part and parcel of the mother’s physical and emotional world. She invests much into their well being and she alone suffers. Hence, the rights of whether to give birth or not, should be with her.”
Take note, America.
This is how it’s done.
BOOM my inlaws got it right.
