There will be plenty of apples in the vending machine
It's
Saturday morning, the apartment is clean, my better half is having
breakfast with an assortment of female relatives after a girls' pajama
party, so what to do? I guess I am too old for Saturday morning
cartoons, so let's browse the web to see if I can find "cartoons" more
suited for my tastes.
First, I really couldn't tell you why I haven't read "Half Sigma" before. On the front page alone, we notice the posts "Screwed for life?", "The return of multigenerational households" and "Resource-insecurity and childlessness".
Inductivist casts his statistical eye on sexual minorities in the post "Comparing straights, gays, bi's, and lesbians". I recall once reading one gay man complaining that gay men smoke a lot (cigarettes, that is, not just pole), so I am not surprised if 39.1 percent of gay men use drugs, as opposed to 7.8 percent. The one really surprising figure at least for me was that 13.6 percent of bisexual men are unemployed, as opposed to 3.8 percent of straight men and 2.7 percent of gay men. I am at loss of thinking of an explanation or an underlying cause for such a drastic difference.
Human nature is natural, and natural is good. Tom Wolfe's lecture "The Human Beast" seems to be making rounds in certain circles, but I never really read it, until now.
The latest development of the infamous Duke lacrosse rape case is that the members of the Duke women's lacrosse team will be wearing wristbands with the text "innocent" during their next game. The post "Duke Rape Case Stupidity" at "Ace of Spaces HQ" (another great blog that I don't read for some reason, perhaps because its archives are a Chinese water torture) picks apart Salon's inane complaint "Duke women not innocent" about these ditzy and brainwashed enablers of patriarchy.
In a lighter note, the video clip "Harrison Ford — Wife Force One" at "Screenhead" shows us the wide acting range of this beloved Hollywood superstar. The dreaded "finger of doom" does not appear until the midway, though. Somebody should similarly edit a video of Tom Cruise holding somebody's head with two hands and explaining intensively that everything is going to be all right.
I have often wondered the common argument of Cafe Hayek that the vast national debt is not a bad thing at all. But these guys are economics professors so they must know what they are doing. Now, in "Queuing Up for a Bad Analogy" explains that illegal immigration that sneaks past the official immigration queues is actually a good thing. Everything bad is good for you, as some other thinker once aptly put it.
Out in the left field, I came upon the site "Debitage" whose post "Affect And The Trolley Problem" I kind of liked. However, even though the blog is active I cannot find archives of the posts written in 2006, since the page "backfill" only goes up to November 2005. One more data point for Jakob Nielsen's guideline that since users spend most of their time on other sites, all web sites should do things the same way as the other sites of similar nature.
In fact, all blogs should do like Boing Boing once did and put up one special page that contains all their posts ever made, for a superior ease of reading and finding things. Of course, for bandwidth reasons this page would not be the front page, but the normal navigation hierarchy would still be available for the vast bulk of readers who just want to read the latest posts. For finding things, Google BlogSearch and other similar services are a joke since they don't work: just give me one page that has everything and FireFox incremental search any day over them! It is no longer 1995 as some people seem to think, and these days computers have quite enough memory and processing power!
First, I really couldn't tell you why I haven't read "Half Sigma" before. On the front page alone, we notice the posts "Screwed for life?", "The return of multigenerational households" and "Resource-insecurity and childlessness".
Inductivist casts his statistical eye on sexual minorities in the post "Comparing straights, gays, bi's, and lesbians". I recall once reading one gay man complaining that gay men smoke a lot (cigarettes, that is, not just pole), so I am not surprised if 39.1 percent of gay men use drugs, as opposed to 7.8 percent. The one really surprising figure at least for me was that 13.6 percent of bisexual men are unemployed, as opposed to 3.8 percent of straight men and 2.7 percent of gay men. I am at loss of thinking of an explanation or an underlying cause for such a drastic difference.
Human nature is natural, and natural is good. Tom Wolfe's lecture "The Human Beast" seems to be making rounds in certain circles, but I never really read it, until now.
The latest development of the infamous Duke lacrosse rape case is that the members of the Duke women's lacrosse team will be wearing wristbands with the text "innocent" during their next game. The post "Duke Rape Case Stupidity" at "Ace of Spaces HQ" (another great blog that I don't read for some reason, perhaps because its archives are a Chinese water torture) picks apart Salon's inane complaint "Duke women not innocent" about these ditzy and brainwashed enablers of patriarchy.
In a lighter note, the video clip "Harrison Ford — Wife Force One" at "Screenhead" shows us the wide acting range of this beloved Hollywood superstar. The dreaded "finger of doom" does not appear until the midway, though. Somebody should similarly edit a video of Tom Cruise holding somebody's head with two hands and explaining intensively that everything is going to be all right.
I have often wondered the common argument of Cafe Hayek that the vast national debt is not a bad thing at all. But these guys are economics professors so they must know what they are doing. Now, in "Queuing Up for a Bad Analogy" explains that illegal immigration that sneaks past the official immigration queues is actually a good thing. Everything bad is good for you, as some other thinker once aptly put it.
Out in the left field, I came upon the site "Debitage" whose post "Affect And The Trolley Problem" I kind of liked. However, even though the blog is active I cannot find archives of the posts written in 2006, since the page "backfill" only goes up to November 2005. One more data point for Jakob Nielsen's guideline that since users spend most of their time on other sites, all web sites should do things the same way as the other sites of similar nature.
In fact, all blogs should do like Boing Boing once did and put up one special page that contains all their posts ever made, for a superior ease of reading and finding things. Of course, for bandwidth reasons this page would not be the front page, but the normal navigation hierarchy would still be available for the vast bulk of readers who just want to read the latest posts. For finding things, Google BlogSearch and other similar services are a joke since they don't work: just give me one page that has everything and FireFox incremental search any day over them! It is no longer 1995 as some people seem to think, and these days computers have quite enough memory and processing power!
Sorry -- I hate blogger's automatically generated archive page, so I hand-update the Backfill page, but I've fallen behind.
Posted by Stentor | 4:49 PM
-- The one really surprising figure at least for me was that 13.6 percent of bisexual men are unemployed, as opposed to 3.8 percent of straight men and 2.7 percent of gay men. I am at loss of thinking of an explanation or an underlying cause for such a drastic difference. --
That's interesting. You have to do some deep digging into human nature, particularly into what it means to be a "bisexual." On my blog, I've noted that the word "bisexual," like "mixed-race" can mean a lot of things. Taken literally, we are all mixed raced. That's not really what comes to mind when most people think of the term.
Similarly, with "bisexual" only a very small % of the populace are 50/50 bi (what comes to mind when we think "bisexual"). But some unknown, huge % may be fully attracted to one gender and less than fully attracted to the other.
I'd imagine that those "bis" who have a high rate of unemployment are predominantly hetero, incidentally homo (and this group, in my opinion, are greatly underestimated in the population, certainly they comprise double digits, and far outnumber real homosexuals, and are largely invisible because they exists, not as part of the gay community, but rather in the normal "straight" world).
Now, two groups of stereotypical bisexuals who may have higher unemployment rates come to mind.
Women: Those "sexually loose" women who are disproportionately strippers, porn stars, and prostitutes are predominantely hetero but are known to disproportionately experiment with lesbian behavior. I can imagine them having high unemployment rates.
Men: Those predominately heterosexual men who work as male prostitutes (the so called "rough trade") who may also disproportionately spend time in prisons, are disproportionately black, who tend to have slightly higher testosterone levels. And men with higher testosterone levels probably make up the lions share of the predominately hetero/incidentally homo group, because the higher testosterone levels leads to a greater need for sexual release. These are "straight men" who can literally can "get it up" and perform homosexually.
It's interesting though, that contra the "Bailey" stereotype, the "rough trade" bisexuals are clearly a different species than "gay men." In many ways rough traders are the polar opposites of the gay male stereotype.
Aaron McKinney, one of the men who beat Matthew Shepard to death may have been one of them.
Posted by Jonathan | 12:09 PM
Thank you, Jonathan, for the interesting and plausible-sounding explanation.
Posted by Ilkka Kokkarinen | 12:52 PM
My pleasure!
Posted by Jonathan | 3:29 PM