Empathy

In honor of Tony Gonzalez's imminent retirement, here's a career retrospective on him.

It's an interesting story on the origin of the word "redskin," but one possible counter-argument is that it's like the n-word in that black people can use it but nobody else can.

This is in my neighborhood.

Here's a cartoon about empathy.

This might surprise you, but I found myself agreeing with this take in response to the Duck Dynasty (and other) kerfuffles.  (You posted the companion article from The Atlantic that I also agreed with.)

ObamaCare has gone from not working to really not working.

This was nice.  So was this.

Responses:

1. Did you notice the dim sum prices?  I imagine it's worth it.

4. Thousands of Flipper fans just unsubscribed from the Wall Street Journal in a huff.

Assorted Responses to Responses:

I think the benefit from lower-tier law schools is that they produce essentially blue-collar lawyers (e.g. DUI lawyers, divorce lawyers, etc.).  The problem is that they charge Harvard prices, but that's in part because 1) attendees get a benefit, however intangible, i.e. they can call themselves lawyers, and 2) attendees can get artificially cheap government loans to attend without any semblance of underwriting.  Remove the cheap loans and these schools will either dramatically lower their prices or go out of business.

On women and beauty, I think the valuation problem is important.  But people with healthy self-esteem don't typically suffer as a result of it.  They might experience the problem, but they're also able to work through it better.  Society right now is going through this phase where nobody can be offended or hurt or whatever, and it's clouding the issue.  There are women and girls who are hurting themselves because of unhealthily low self-esteem related to body image issues.  This is a mental health issue.  There are also people who are annoyed because they see a mom posing with a six-pack eight months after giving birth.  I don't know if their feeling of annoyance is a societal problem.

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