Originally a comment by Screechy Monkey on They can’t see what they can’t see.

I get frustrated with the way this debate gets framed. It’s not that the “ideas” that Damore and his ilk promote are “off limits,” as Coyne would have it. It’s that they are such inferior ideas when it comes to explaining our present reality.

I have no quarrel with the abstract notion that women and men may differ, whether biologically or for culture-driven reasons that we don’t wish to change, in ways that mean that not every profession will end up with a 50/50 split of men and women even when we have achieved complete and utter Gender Equality Utopia. Call this the Gender Differences … Read the rest

I wrote a post on Facebook a bit ago:

You know what I’m sick of? I’ll tell you what I’m sick of. I’m sick of men writing think pieces explaining why women should be perfectly happy to see men writing think pieces about how women just happen not to be suited to all those careers in which they’re a minority, because it’s their temperament to be too nurturing and cuddly to be suited for [desirable job X].

I’m sick of seeing those men never pause for one second to take into account the fact that being seen as unsuited for [desirable job X] IS ITSELF AN OBSTACLE and that they themselves are adding to the obstacle by lecturing us on

About Cambridge Analytica…

Senior executives at Cambridge Analytica – the data company that credits itself with Donald Trump’s presidential victory – have been secretly filmed saying they could entrap politicians in compromising situations with bribes and Ukrainian sex workers.

In an undercover investigation by Channel 4 News, the company’s chief executive Alexander Nix said the British firm secretly campaigns in elections across the world. This includes operating through a web of shadowy front companies, or by using sub-contractors.

In one exchange, when asked about digging up material on political opponents, Mr Nix said they could “send some girls around to the candidate’s house”, adding that Ukrainian girls “are very beautiful, I find that works very well”.

If law enforcement … Read the rest

He’s in a lather.

The Mueller probe should never have been started in that there was no collusion and there was no crime. It was based on fraudulent activities and a Fake Dossier paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC, and improperly used in FISA COURT for surveillance of my campaign. WITCH HUNT!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 18, 2018

All false sir. Flynn’s plea statement admits widespread collusion during transition & there is much evidence it started before. Your buddy Nunes’ memo proves FBI investigation was based on much more than Steele dossier. And that dossier is more & more corroborated by the day. https://t.co/gWNXNsUtld

— Norm Eisen (#TryingTrump out now!) (@NormEisen) March 18, 2018

All false … Read the rest

Mr. President, the American people will hear my story very soon. And they can judge for themselves who is honorable and who is not.

— James Comey (@Comey) March 17, 2018

CNN’s @LauraAJarrett reports that much like fired FBI Director James Comey, there are memos former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe wrote documenting his conversations with the President, among other things, according to a source with knowledge of the matter.

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) March 17, 2018

Gloat now, but you will be fired soon. And it’s not going to be done cowardly, as you’ve done to so many who’ve served you. There’s a storm gathering, Mr. President, and it’s going to wipe out you and your corrupt organization all

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Once upon a time I thought Alberto Gonzales was the weakest and most craven Attorney General in modern times. I was wrong.

— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) March 17, 2018

In the absence of the IG report, it’s impossible to evaluate the merits of this harsh treatment of a 21-year FBI professional. That it comes after the President urged the DOJ to deprive McCabe of his pension, and after his testimony, gives the action an odious taint. https://t.co/rpZqqxFp4u

— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) March 17, 2018

What the lawyers on MSNBC were saying last night is that even if McCabe did what the IG report is said to accuse him of doing, the speed of the firing is wholly abnormal and … Read the rest

He thinks it’s funny.

President Donald Trump consumed Thursday morning’s TV headlines with amusement. Reports of tumult in the administration were at a feverish pitch — even on his beloved Fox News — as the president reflected on the latest staff departures during an Oval Office conversation with Vice President Mike Pence and Chief of Staff John Kelly.

With a laugh, Trump said: “Who’s next?”

Hahahaha he’s an incompetent corrupt zero who’s ruining everything; how hilarious.… Read the rest

Trump’s people have been trying to politically cleanse the State Department, according to a couple of House Democrats.

Two top House Democrats said Thursday that they have proof the Trump administration engaged in an intentional effort to rid the State Department of career officials they suspected of being “disloyal” to President Trump, citing documents a whistleblower gave to the panel.

The ranking Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs and Oversight and Government Reform committees sent a letter to White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly and Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan, writing that they received documents “indicating that high-level officials at the White House and State Department worked with a network of conservative activists to conduct a ‘cleaning’ … Read the rest

About that history conference where out of 30 speakers a mere 30 were men…

In organizing the recent Applied History conference, we invited a number of distinguished female historians to give papers, none of whom was able to attend. In the end, just under 24% of conference participants were women.

— Niall Ferguson (@nfergus) March 15, 2018

I’ve heard that before. What you do then is ask more.

https://twitter.com/drleatongray/status/974396073128222721

https://twitter.com/avoiding_bears/status/974385606381002752

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To historians at that!

https://twitter.com/KELoveland/status/974406096550006784

So many they forgot to ask.

Well I didn’t get a call?! Ladies? @bettanyhughes @wmarybeard @sixteenthCgirl @alexvtunzelmann @HallieRubenhold @SarahRoseCrook @sarahchurchwell @FernRiddell @katemond @KateWilliamsme @AmberButchart @Amanda_Vickery @theAliceRoberts @19Averil @HelenhCarr @carolinepennock no space https://t.co/KHmCjnW14U

— Prof Janina Ramirez (@DrJaninaRamirez) March 15, 2018

So many more… @ClerkofOxford