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Links for March 24

In Commentary on 24 March 2008 tagged links, politics, religion, sex, statistics, war with 1 comment

• Emily Yoffe: Forget Juno. Out-of-wedlock births are a national catastrophe. Seeming fact-based defense of marriage. I don’t have strong opinions on this either way, but it certainly seems like marriage is to be encouraged for people who would be parents. The number that stands out to me is that only 4% of mothers who are college graduates are unwed.
• 10 Zen Monkeys: Can America Handle a Little Truth? Great essay on the Jeremiah Wright controversy.
• FP Passport: McCain’s wars. John McCain’s transformation into a neocon on foreign policy issues.
• New York Times review of Nicholson Baker’s pacifist argument against World War II, Human Smoke.

Links from March 13th

In Commentary on 14 March 2008 tagged politics, sex, sports, statistics, terrorism, Twitter, war with 2 comments

• Robert Weintraub in Slate: How have the Houston Rockets won 20 games in a row? – He’s wrong about the absence of Yao helping the Rockets. The Rockets won 12 in a row with Yao before winning 8 in a row without him. I think the secret has been adding Rick Adelman’s offense to the defensive tenacity that Jeff Van Gundy instilled in the team over the past few seasons.
• Taliban shutting down cellular service in Afghanistan – The Taliban is forcing cellular networks to shut down at night because they think coalition forces track their fighters through their phones. Easier to extort the telephone companies than to get guerilla fighters to just turn off their phones, I guess.
• 17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe
• The Eliot Spitzer affair and the business of sex – Kottke links to lots of sex worker reactions to Eliot Spitzer’s prostitution scandal. Incredibly interesting.