Like Lightning

I finished Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life/An Antidote to Chaos. I’m not big on self-help books, normally, but I like listening to Peterson’s debates and interviews, and I especially liked the series he did on old testament stories. I actually downloaded the transcripts of those and pored over them. Very insightful. In fact, I […]

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Darn Lazy Men

Nice-seeming Feminism An exchange which can serve as a State-of-the-Union for feminism of the soft, non-gender-bending variety can be found in an interview of Melinda Gates on Marketplace, a program affiliated with NPR.   Her topic:  balancing the burden of unpaid work. According to Mrs. Gates, women do an outsized portion of the household chores, both in poor […]

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