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What is most interesting about the situation however is the attack was estimated to be sophisticated enough to get past 90% of firms! Moreover, it was so pervasive, it's still flashing demands on the computers of Sony employees from Guardians of Peace or #GOP – the hacking group! And it's not just bad for Sony. Maureen Dowd of the New York Times took a major credibility hit as it was revealed she offered to show her story to Sony Pictures co-chair, Bernard Weinraub before it was published. If that wasn't enough, the medical records of many Sony employees and family members were also released.
News today tells of Sony launching a denial of server attack to make it difficult for sites hosting the information to disseminate it. AWS was supposed to be the vehicle being used according to Re/Code. Amazon is denying its servers are being used for such a purpose. The reality may be somewhere in-between as a company called MediaDefender or a similar concern is likely being used to seed torrent networks with false seeds of file names similar to those being shared on such networks. The goal is to have fake seeds chew up processing power on computers and yield nothing for the user.
We can expect an escalation in the war between hackers and companies looking to block stolen information. But then again, as some have accurately surmised, Sony may bear some responsibility here as placing thousands of passwords in a file named Password may not have been the smartest thing in the world.
Apparently no one in the company ever read Cookoo's Egg.
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]]>This got me thinking… No data center or company is secure anymore either. We know that if a hacker really wanted to get into a company they could but what we didn't expect was just how easy it is becoming to prove the poin.
The news of the week (actually just Monday and Tuesday) is enough to give you a sense of the chaos we're dealing with. Iranian hackers it was revealed have hacked 50 organizations in 16 countries. Cylance said in an extensive report:
Ten of these victims are headquartered in the US and include a major airline, a medical university, an energy company specializing in natural gas production, an automobile manufacturer, a large defense contractor, and a major military installation.
In addition, a group known as FIN4 is hacking Wall Street financial firms in a bid to gain privileged financial information about non-public upcoming market moving announcements, according to a new report from FireEye. The basic security flaw being exploited here is weaponized documents which exploit known flaws such as running Microsoft Visual Basic (VBA) macros to get ahold of user names and passwords. A suggested way to protect yourself is to block VBA macros and FIN4 domains.
Recently Sony had its movies and other important documents stolen. As part of the attack, salary info was taken and as a result, reporters have decided to turn this information into fuel for, you guessed it, a class, race and gender war. At issue, this reporter thinks there are too many white men making all big bucks at the firm.The point is, this leaked information will cause immeasurable harm to Sony, destroy morale and put them at a major competitive disadvantage.
The hack was bad enough that the FBI warned US businesses via a confidential flash warning regarding software that overwrites a company's hard drives. A Sony spokeswoman said the company had "restored a number of important services" and was "working closely with law enforcement officials to investigate the matter."
Sadly, there is no flip phone for your data center yet but be sure you spend enough time, energy and effort ensuring you have done everything you can to keep your corporate assets and secrets away from prying eyes. Remember, one bad link, clicked upon by accident can wreak havoc if you don't have the right software and/or procedures in place.]]>Quite often, highly secure computers are disconnected from the outside world so as to not get hit by hackers. However, it seems these air-gap networks named for their isolation from other computers are not as secure as we once thought. A hacker can get to these networks in the following manner. They design software which logs the keystrokes and subsequently transmits this information via FM radio signals generated by the graphics card - without changing the display so the user doesn't detect the attack. These signals are then picked up by a nearby cellphone (obviously equipped to pick up radio signals which many are) that can subsequently transmit this data anywhere. In this case they used a Samsung galaxy S4 and had to plug in the headphones to get the radio receiver to work. Since FM radio signals travels great distances, through walls, etc. this is a great way to tap into highly-secure computers.
Prof. Yuval Elovici, the head of the cyber security research labs at Ben-Gurion University in Israel discusses air-gap security as well as the latest threats and developments. At 14 minutes is where the discussion relates to what is written here.
Here is the challenge though; you have to install this malware on the computer in question. A simple way to do this is to plug in a USB drive. Obviously this attack vector is not as easy to execute as sitting at home in your pajamas and running scripts across a massive number of servers – hoping to find a vulnerability. This type of attack is much more targeted – like spear phishing which goes after specific individuals or groups by potentially posing as a friend or acquaintance or using otherwise personal information to make the target more likely to take the desired action such as clicking a link.
See AirGap malware in action
To make this play out in the real world, you could bribe a member of the cleaning crew. Other threats could come from a malicious insider or a careless employee who receives a USB device at a conference, in the mail, etc.
This is said to be how the Stuxnet worm got onto Iranian computers many years ago.
In other words, this is more a Mission Impossible type of attack but air-gap networks are likely worth the trouble for the right malicious actors.
Here is the current range of the AirHopper vulnerability in a building where a computer is plugged into the conference room - potentially a less secure part of a secure building. A cell phone would have to be in this circle for this attack to work.
In the above demonstration, AirHopper malware is transmitting data between 13-60 Bps at a range between 1-7 meters. It is unclear how far these FM signals can travel but the professor did explain they travel farther when carried over a longer cable than a shorter one. So a computer connected to a projector makes an ideal target.
Here is the reality of cybersecurity… You have to worry about physical security as well as virtual and there is no such thing as a network which is 100% secure as long as there are smart people looking to break-in. It's a good time to be in the Cybersecurity business.
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]]>The one thing both sides have in common however is the need to confidentially share trade secrets with some people. In other words, when you are seeking support for your idea to launch "Tinder for pets" you want to ensure your potential partners and hires keep the secret until the time is right.
This gets us to the non-disclosure agreement or NDA… At one point or another, every company runs into situations where they need to sign these or produce them. Currently this involves going to your legal team or in many cases hiring an outside attorney if you are too small to have a team. You could always use the last one you came across and modify it accordingly but who knows if that is the best way to go about ensuring your trade secrets aren't shared improperly.
Then there is the challenge of managing it all. Has it expired? What are you obligated to keep secret? For how much longer? Who in the company is allowed to sign it? Where do you store it once its signed?
In a recent conversation with Crick Waters, co-founder of EasyNDA, he explained to me the idea to launch this company came about because he himself needed to deal with the challenge of making and sending out NDAs. Now he says, the company's SaaS-based platform gives small companies the ability to quickly produce NDAs and lets large companies deal with the complexity of knowing what NDAs have been distributed and signed – and of course to whom.
In addition, there is mobile-support allowing two people at a lunch to quickly agree to and sign an NDA with their fingers on a smartphone.
For larger companies not using such an automated system, the process can be even more complicated. In one scenario, a person fills out a form which is turned into an NDA that is given to a salesperson who gets it signed and then returns it for scanning and filing. Let's spell that out in steps:
The main benefit of automation is not just NDA-management but the lubrication of business… Currently, if you want an NDA signed before you share an idea, you have to take potentially a few days to deal with the production and signing of the document. With a "standard purpose" NDA from EasyNDA, both parties will feel generally confident that the wording won't take away their first-born child and will hopefully sign without much thought. This should allow more focus on business and less on legalese. Moreover, since information is stored in the cloud, the rest of the people in each organization will be aware of the new development.
While there are expensive systems on the market to handle things like this for mega-corporations, the target audience here is the small to medium business.
For now the service is available for free but going forward you will still be able to use the system at no cost to receive, execute and store NDAs. Otherwise, to produce and send EasyNDAs, you can purchase an individual subscription for $4/month, $19/month for a team of six or $79/month for a team of 25.
The latter plan allows you to also use your own NDA if you so choose.
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If you're wondering why his name sounds familiar, Crick was Co-founder and EVP Strategy and Business Development at Ribbit, the trailblazing programmable telephony network purchased by BT. The service offered "features" used to create customized "communications enabled" business processes and consumer business services. In some ways this is similar to GENBAND's Kandy today.
It will be interesting to see if Crick can turn this new company into the industry-standard for NDAs. If he does, I Agree to Disclose it to you at some point in the future.
]]>In a recent meeting with SOTI, a major player in the space, they announced they had 50 android OEMs using their platform. The companies include BQ, HTC, Intermec by Honeywell, Kyocera, Lenovo, LG, Motorola Solutions, Panasonic, Samsung and many others.
Roula Vrsic, VP of Marketing was excited to talk about this growth. Some months back when I saw her last, the company had 35 Android OEMs – impressive growth. She says, company's want the SOTI APK.
Some of the benefits the company's solution provides are geofencing, kiosk mode and URL filtering. She tells me some school districts have one device that the entire family uses and as a result they can use SOTI to relax URL filtering rules by grade. Moreover, they can have tighter restrictions on devices at schools than at home.
In the healthcare market, the solution can be used to provide remote nurses with a tablet which utilizes HIPAA-compliant encryption to communicate with a specialist who could specify for example that a patient's limb doesn't look good and they need to be airlifted immediately for treatment.
In terms of the fragmented market which Android plays in, she says her company can manage 75% of the Android market for now. Also, if you are a channel partner, its worth checking out coverage regarding the company's Altitude Partner Program designed to help you sell enterprise mobility solutions.
A key takeaway from my latest meeting is the mobility market is more than just about gadgets – these solutions are being used to save lives. SOTI is one of the companies allowing this to happen.
Here is a bit more on the company's MobiControl 11
This security measure makes sense… George's security team was able to remotely monitor all photos taken meaning they would also know who leaked a specific photo. But what's even more interesting to me is, if celebrities can't trust cellphone passwords to keep their wedding and nude selfies secure, can you trust them to be secure in your enterprise? The answer is obviously not… At least until cellphone passwords get a heck of a lot stronger or start using multifactor authentication.
Yet, companies with BYOD polices – which is basically all corporations have done little since nude selfie-gate to reign in what confidential work their users do using third-party clouds. Having said that, one wonders if the solution for companies will be same as for Clooney… Burner phones for all.
If this is a future trend we likely can't expect these burner devices to be made by Apple… At $800 a pop, the bills get big fast. But a no-name Android device? Maybe.
I don't expect burner phones to become a standard giveaway at corporations immediately but the idea is intriguing and in a way would just be a simple reversal of BYOD policies. We'd be going back to a time when security was more in the hands of IT and less in the hands of Apple's iCloud.
Disclosure: This pic of George may or may not be with his new wife. I truly lack the interest in knowing who he married.
First you can use laptops on planes -- even during take off. Then you can't. Then you can -- but not after the aircraft door closes. In all cases you can't use any gadget emitting radio waves. Then the airlines start charging for WiFi and you can use devices with radio waves. But not VoIP.In 2011 I reiterated my thoughts about how ludicrous this policy is.
Airlines can also allow the use of portable electronic devices (PEDs) throughout the flight, after a safety assessment process. As a result, passengers will be able to use their PEDs just like in any other mode of transport: throughout the trip.
The new guidance allows airlines to permit PEDs to stay switched on, without the need to be in 'Airplane Mode'. This is the latest regulatory step towards enabling the ability to offer 'gate-to-gate' telecommunication or WiFi services.
PEDs include any kind of electronic device brought on board the aircraft by a passenger such as smartphone, tablet, laptop, e-reader, MP3 player, etc.
It is up to each airline to decide to allow the use of PEDs. In order to do this, the airline will have to go through an assessment process, ensuring aircraft systems are not affected in any way by the transmission signals from the PEDs. For this reason, there may be differences among airlines whether and when PEDs can be used.
Passengers must at all times follow the airline crew instructions. Safety always comes first onboard of an aircraft.
This is part of a more bewildering law Penal Code 630-638 that seems to be designed to make it exceedingly difficult to do business in the state.(a) Every person who, intentionally and without the consent of all parties to a confidential communication, by means of any electronic amplifying or recording device, eavesdrops upon or records the confidential communication, whether the communication is carried on among the parties in the presence of one another or by means of a telegraph, telephone, or other device, except a radio, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or in the state prison, or by both that fine and imprisonment. If the person has previously been convicted of a violation of this section or Section 631, 632.5, 632.6, 632.7, or 636, the person shall be punished by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or in the state prison, or by both that fine and imprisonment.
This category of product in fact is likely one of the first in the M2M space otherwise known as IoT.
I recently had a chance to try out the Securus eResponder Mobile Personal Emergency Response System, a device name which apparently is designed as a filter. If you can remember it, you likely are young enough not to actually need it.
But joking aside, falling - breaking a bone and being stuck, is no laughing matter and many of us, including me, have family members who have suffered through such a problem.
My job, as a reviewer was to try it out and see how well it worked.
Based on the T-Mobile network, the device allows instant connections with a central office which can help you through emergencies. In my testing, I left it uncharged for weeks and occasionally pressed the panic button to see what would happen. I always reached someone immediately, told them there was no emergency and tried to get off the line quickly so people with real emergencies could get through. Call quality was great and it was loud enough for someone who is hard of hearing.
The pendant is about as small as an ice cube and perhaps lighter and is shower-safe... No, I didn't shower with it. It can last up to two months on a charge according to the company – although mine didn't last quite that long.
User information is stored in the call center which is helpful. They always mentioned my name when I connected. In addition, to help responders, users can provide emergency information like allergies, medications, preferred hospitals, and lockbox entry codes as well as five emergency contacts.
The biggest challenge with the device may be there is no way to tell how much battery life is left. Instead, the service itself is designed to alert you through email or phone if battery levels are low. In fact, eResponder automatically collects battery level and cellular strength every 24 hours.
Below is an email you might receive if the battery is low as well as a look at the battery report from my device.
Finally, the call center can trigger the device to dial 911 if a user needs to be located during an emergency. 911 uses U-TDOA technology to locate the device.
In a world where everything of value is to be connected to the internet, devices like these protect some of the most important assets we have… Our loved ones.
]]>Similarly, scammers are able to rely on implicit familiarity to generate revenue from the unsuspecting. For example, many people know the yellow pages directory but the name is not unique… In fact there are many companies who leverage this name in order to trick customers. A small bill from the yellow pages may seem as innocuous as one from a snow plow company in fact.
In 2005 I wrote about Yellow Pages scams, specifically warning people not to fall for companies offering them free listings. Almost a decade later, the scam is still going strong costing small businesses millions of dollars. When I wrote about the problem, it was based on scammers sending a check to companies and in fine print it would commit those organizations to pay for listings.
Now these companies are using telemarketing and voice recordings to get their victims to pay. Here is how it works. They call to verify your address and other information and record the call. They then send a bill for a listing your company never authorized. If you call to inquire, they then play back a doctored recording which makes it seem like your company requested the listing.
The FTC just went after a number of these companies operating in Montreal. A federal judge entered a $15.6 million judgment against the defendants and banned them from the directory business. The defendants are charged with law violations for misrepresenting that they had a preexisting business relationship with consumers, that consumers had agreed to buy directory listings, and that consumers owed them money.
The point here is look out for these scams. Companies apply the same principles when selling you on the "URL hustle" – scaring you by saying your web address is about to expire. I covered this in a post about the four scams you need to watch out for.
Another one I wrote about was backup DNS services – something you should toss out as soon as you receive such a bill. Finally there are SEO services – if you hire a company, please be sure they know what they are doing. Over the years, many of them have been hired and their method of operations caused them to load the web with crap comment spam. In other words they would find a review of a Honda Civic and at the bottom, place a comment like, "I just bought a new Samsung Galaxy S4 for $25 and you can too at cheapgalaxyphonesrus.com." Search engines now penalize companies for these sorts of low-quality unrelated links and as a result, companies need to go and clean up the mess these "experts" left behind.
Bottom line: be careful – there are a lot of bad actors out there looking to help you part with your hard-earned money. Worst of all, there seems to be no jail time being given out here meaning the expertise at deceiving the public may just get transferred to others who will launch a bunch of new companies targeting the unsuspecting. Who knew that the idea behind the snow plow scam would still be working really well so many decades later?
Here are the names of the people and companies involved in this case:
The following facts are the most shocking:
Bottom line is that companies still seem to be behind the curve in terms of protecting themselves from threats like these. Recently a hedge fund was infiltrated and its trading algorithms were slowed intentionally to make them ineffective. Hackers are getting as smart as the coders they target – oftentimes they are even smarter. And their motives vary, making an effective security policy almost impossible to put in place.
]]>The point is, to be accepted in Pre you have to give fingerprints, submit to a background check, etc.
When people are randomly selected to go through the same relaxed security line, none of this applies. Of course it is a random occurrence – but nonetheless, if a terrorist organization wanted to be successful in carrying out an attack, they could simply send large numbers of terrorists at once, hoping to get one or more through the system.
I've been keeping this information to myself – not sure who to share it with. After all, it is a security matter… Do I go public, hoping the authorities button up the procedure at the risk of alerting people who may want to use this loophole to harm the US or not?
What triggered me to write about these experiences is a new initiative by the US and UK to shore up international airport security for flights coming into the US. The reason is, there are reports of terrorists trying to develop non-metallic explosives to bring onboard planes. It seems to me these explosives would be the exact kind that TSA Pre would NOT detect as these passengers only go through a metal detector and not a millimeter wave device which does a full-body scan and can detect the lint in the pocket of your jeans.
The only other thing worth mentioning is there has also been an increase in random scans for bomb making materials via bomb-sniffing dogs and explosive detecting devices reading the swabbed hands of many travelers which shows the government has been aware of the heightened bomb threat level for some time.
It stands to reason that if we are at a heightened security level with respect to airplane travel and we know the US border with Mexico is so pourus that children can come through by the thousand each day, we should be very concerned about the state of US airline security - not just in international airports. If the TSA Pre lane is designed to work in conjunction with a thorough background check, it shouldn't be available to people who don't go through this process.
Perhaps I am being paranoid or overreacting but it is always better to be safe than sorry. Hopefully this post helps increase the domestic security level at our airports.
]]>Two reasons I've touted for purchasing a Surface Pro 3 are it is a laptop replacement that you can keep in your laptop bag as you travel through security and on the airplane during takeoff and landing.
I recently had a chance to test how the travel industry would deal with my new device on a trip to France.
On the way their I was in the TSA Pre line where laptops aren't required to come out of the bag so I wasn't able to test the reaction to this device. Moreover, it was a red-eye so I decided to sleep instead of working.
The way back was a different story.
I left the SP3 in the bag when placing it on the X-ray belt but they made me take it out. French security was very tough – they examined every protein powder I had on me (four different kinds) and asked me what they were. Once satisfied that these powders were in-fact not harmful, they turned their attention to my jump rope. I thought for sure they thought it could be used to choke someone but no, they were concerned the metal handles could be used as weapons. It was confiscated.
When taking off from the airport in France, there were no requests to turn off devices which I found odd. No one even checked to see if we were using gadgets. When we landed I was told I had to shut the Surface Pro 3 down. I protested in a polite fashion and then removed the tablet from the keyboard to prove it was a tablet and not an "evil" laptop. The flight attendant seemed quite surprised by my actions – she said she had never seen a tablet that large and told me to use it with keyboard off until she went further towards the back of the airplane.
Weird, huh? Nonetheless, I did get to use it on the flight and was able to eke about nine hours of battery life by being judicious with screen brightness and only lighting the keyboard barely, when needed.
Bottom line is two solid reasons that a traveler might have to purchase an SP3 over a laptop have yet to fully materialize. Perhaps it will just take time as the travel industry, TSA and global equivalents figure out what this thing is. In the meantime though, it may behoove Microsoft to actively start educating the proper authorities – FAA, etc. so its customers don't have to do the educating for them.
]]>Security has always been a major focus for operators. Indeed, when their networks were proprietary and thought to be bulletproof, it was determined a simple whistle distributed in a box of Captain Crunch cereal could give access to hackers.
NFV allows software to run on standard virtualized servers and moreover this software will likely come from smaller players. While this is not inherently a less secure way of building networks, it goes without saying that loosely connecting systems from various vendors on PC servers will open up new areas of attack for hackers and fraudsters.
To that end, Alcatel-Lucent has been focusing on shoring up NFV security – so networks of the future powering software telcos are as secure as possible. David Amzallag Vice President, Virtual Telecommunications and CloudBand CTO has an in-depth post on what his company has been doing in the space.
Interesting points from the piece include the ETSI SFV security group started with just six members and has well over a hundred now – when you factor in passive members as well. This tells me the interest in security is great as vendors and carriers realize they have to get it right up front to eliminate headaches later.
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Our vision emphasizes the necessity of building the trust chain for NFV components in three major steps. The first step is securing the platform— reinforcing deliberately disconnected islands of compute, storage, and networking infrastructure as well as the management system. The second step is the deployment of virtual security appliances, such as firewalls that transform the islands into controlled network zones, and virtual DNS servers that help to mitigate denial-of-service attacks. In the third step, virtualized functions in support of applications are placed in the zones established previously. The security of that deployment is assured by a combination of native application security controls and virtual security appliances, and then it is further enhanced by NFV platform capabilities. Once deployed, the security services provided by the applications can, in turn, be used to improve platform security further. For instance, the IMS virtualized Home Subscriber Server (HSS) can be used to provide an extra authentication factor for access to platform software. With these three steps in place, a centralized management and orchestration system can ensure a consistent, horizontal implementation of security through systematic application of security policies that will be enforced through the policy management mechanism of an NFV orchestrator, as in the CloudBand Management System.
Another important point is a well-orchestrated network of virtualized routers can actually be more resilient in the face of DDoS attack than legacy systems. The idea is highly intuitive – in-fact, DDoS mitigation seems to be an NFV killer app as the added flexibility and instant scaleability make software telco networks much harder to take down.
Another point Amzallag makes is OpenStack needs to have its security beefed up… Something the company is working on. For more details, I refer you to the article which also references a corresponding white paper (registration may be required) with more information - specifically addressing these security issues which accompany virtualization:
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- Publisher: Namco Bandai Games America
- Release Date: Jan 23, 2007
- Developer: Microvision
- Genre(s): Console-style RPG
- # of players: 1 Player
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Mixed: 11 out of 17
Negative: 3 out of 17
If you're into RPGs for that rush of fun and adventure, avoid this game. Heck, avoid the whole Legend of Heroes series. But, if you've stuck it out so far and have enjoyed the storyline created by Falcom, a company respected by many a J-RPG fan, know that this game has a plot that enriches the others even as it proves its own value to the gamers' imagination.
A traditionally produced RPG that hits many of the right notes for old-school RPG fans, and even new-school RPG gamers. Because of the intense focus on dialogue in this game, it won't appeal to those who want more action.
It's the strongest title of the trilogy, but it's still a ways away from being a must have RPG.
The Legend of Heroes III: Song of the Ocean is a competent and lengthy role-playing game, but it's painfully generic without the slightest tinge of originality or creative flair.
It's so weighted down by uninspired foundations. [Aug 2007, p.114]
Legend of Heroes III starts slowly, doesn't build to anything worth writing about, and doesn't even have challenging combat or an interesting plot. Keep well away, as Legend of Heroes III wasn't even a good game in 1999.
Legend of Heroes needs more innovation in the areas that actually matter – scenario writing, game design, the tricky stuff like that – before it'll spawn an installment worth playing.
Score distribution:
Positive: 1 out of 1
Mixed: 0 out of 1
Negative: 0 out of 1
[Anonymous]Apr 30, 2007Elementary graphics, pretty good effects with a good story line. If its 3D then I might have given it a 9.

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What Is Your Take on Singles Now Outnumbering the Married?
The New York Post had this recent article on the state of marriage in America (via Newsalert):
Unmarried American adults outnumber their married counterparts for the first time since the federal government began tracking that data in 1976, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
There were 124.6 million single Americans in August — accounting for 50.2 percent of the 16-and-over US population, the BLS data showed.
Eric Klinenberg, an NYU sociology professor who tracks marriage trends, predicts the unmarrieds will probably be edging their married peers by this small margin for the foreseeable future….
But while the numbers might look stark, Americans are still getting together — they're just not racing down the aisle.
"Just because people are not getting married doesn't mean they're not partnering and cohabitating," said Karen Guzzo, a sociology professor at Bowling Green State University.
How much of the decrease in marriage rates is because men are on strike? How much of it is for other reasons? Whatever the reason for singles taking over in the U.S., it is important that the laws reflect equality in partnerships between men and women; or better yet, the law should stay out of personal relationships as much as is humanly possible.
However, I doubt that will happen, so men must be ever vigilant that they do not end up being responsible in traditional ways for women while the women pretend to be "empowered" as the society changes to one of a nation of singles Given the lack of due process, the tendency to blame men for relationship problems, and unequal treatment in domestic relations, men might be better off not living too long with any one woman. This is bad for society and families, but might be a better solution for individual men.
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The New America: Shopping instead of Job Hunting
I was not surprised to read that more unemployed people are shopping rather than job hunting:
On the average day, an unemployed American is more likely to be shopping—for things other than groceries and gas—than to be looking for a new job, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Only 18.9 percent of Americans who were unemployed (in surveys conducted from 2009 through 2013) spent time in job search and interviewing activities on an average day, according to BLS. Yet 40.8 percent of the unemployed did some kind of shopping on the average day–either in a store, by telephone, or on the Internet. 22.5 percent of the unemployed, according to BLS, were shopping for items other than groceries, food and gas…..
An unemployed person—on the average day—was more likely to spend time on shopping, sports and recreation, socializing and leisure, than they were searching for and interviewing for a new job, according to BLS.
According to BLS, 96.7 percent of the unemployed spent time during the average day participating in "socializing, relaxing, and leisure" activities and spent, on average, 5.93 hours on those activities—or more than twice the number of hours they spent job searching.
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'They Were Teenage Boys, and Their Alleged Assailants Were Female Employees Tasked With Looking Out For Their Well-Being.'
So, what has been going on at Woodland Hills? A 2010 investigation by the Tennessean found a series of allegations that had gone largely uninvestigated and unpunished by authorities. One of the facilities' kitchen employees, the newspaper discovered, had reportedly given a 17-year-old boy chlamydia, and later lived with a different male juvenile who she had been accused of abusing while he was in the facility. The woman was cleared in four separate state investigations despite failing a lie detector test. She was ultimately convicted only after she turned herself in to police. In another case uncovered by the paper, a different female guard went on to marry a former inmate after he was released from the facility. The woman kept her job even after her marriage came to light.
Such incidents are sadly common inside our juvenile justice system. In the most recent federal survey of detained juveniles, nearly 8 percent of respondents reported being sexually victimized by a staff member at least once in the previous 12 months. For those who reported being abused, two things proved overwhelmingly true, as they were in Woodland Hills: They were teenage boys, and their alleged assailants were female employees tasked with looking out for their well-being. Nine in 10 of those who reported being victimized were males reporting incidents with female staff. Women, meanwhile, typically make up less than half of a juvenile facility's staff….
The attitude that these boys bear some blame, however small, is dangerous in a vacuum. It's downright reckless when we know that 90 percent of reported incidents involve male juveniles and female guards. "That minimizing of a serious crime is really contributing to the crisis," says Stannow, "and we are talking about a crisis here."
The common theme with most woman on boy sex seems to be that whether the teen is being abused in a juvenile facility or is a 14-year-old forced to pay child support to the grown woman who committed statutory rape against him, somehow he is always to blame.
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'The Prenup Is Just Another Hurdle…'
Prenups are supposed to be the ultimate divorce insurance for the wealthy. Yet like insurance, prenuptial agreements are often challenged when there's a claim. …
The main reason prenups are so rock solid is the Uniform Prenuptial Agreement Act, which was adopted by the majority of states and makes it very difficult to toss out a prenup. The law sets out basic guidelines for drawing prenups and strengthens their enforceability, attorneys said.
Yet there are a few conditions under which prenups may be tossed out. Attorneys said the most common challenge is fraud, where a spouse undervalues or hides assets. ..
Another popular challenge is the "coercion or duress" argument. This is Anne Griffin's main argument. She said that after she expressed unwillingness to sign the prenup, they had an argument and Ken Griffin became "so angry, violent and intimidating that he destroyed a piece of furniture in their home." ….
"If the wealthier party wanted it to be fair, they wouldn't enter into a prenup," he said. "Prenuptial agreements necessarily deal with degrees of unfairness. They give leverage to one side."
That doesn't mean that less wealthy spouses can't get more than the prenup offers. In the recent divorce of Wendi and Rupert Murdoch, for instance, Wendi Murdoch negotiated a larger settlement during negotiations involving their assets and children. The Griffin divorce also involves the custody of their children.
"The prenup is just another hurdle for one side to overcome," Auerbach said.
Yes, that's the problem, the "one side" is generally the wife and since when is it "unfair" to get a prenup and to have leverage over one's own earnings?
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Gender Affects Types of Crashes for Young Drivers
A study finds that the gender of young drivers plays a role in the types of crashes they are involved in:
(HealthDay News) — The types of vehicle crashes involving young drivers often vary by gender, a new study has found.
Researchers analyzed data from 2007 to 2011 for all crashes involving drivers between the ages of 16 and 24 in Kansas and found a number of differences between male and female drivers.
Young women were 66 percent more likely to wear a seat belt, 28 percent more likely to drive on a restricted license and they had more crashes at intersections and with pedestrians. They were also more likely to have crashes on weekdays.
Young men, on the other hand, had more crashes at night, more off-road crashes and were more likely to have crashes on weekends, according to the study published recently in the Journal of Safety Research.
"There are often different risk factors for young male and young female drivers because their behavior and attitudes are generally different," lead researcher Sunanda Dissanayake, a civil engineering professor at Kansas State University, said in a university news release.
The article mentions education materials being aimed at each gender to help them reduce car accidents: perhaps more instruction for girls are how to prevent driving errors at intersections and around pedestrians and instructions for guys on why wearing a seat belt is important, though this may or may not work. Any ideas on how to get guys to wear seat belts? It seems to be a big problem for them in fatal crashes.
Cross-posted from Dr. Helen
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College Men 'Going on Strike'?
You've come a long way, baby — and then gone all the way back and then some.
Ashe Schow writes in the Wash Ex about the fallout from the campus sexual assault hysteria:
Thanks to an increased focus on sexual assaults on college campuses – mostly due to an overblown statistic claiming 20 percent of college women have been sexually assaulted – young college men are starting to rethink how they talk to women.
At first glance that might seem like a good thing – men learning to be more respectful of women and not be so rapey – but that's not what this is.
This is about men actually avoiding contact with women because they're afraid a simple kiss or date could lead to a sexual assault accusation.
Bloomberg reporters John Lauerman and Jennifer Surane interviewed multiple men from colleges like Harvard and Stanford who expressed concern over what was once known as a "hook-up culture" but is now labeled by feminists as "rape culture." The change in terminology ensures that all responsibility is placed on men, just because of their gender.
Take Malik Gill of Harvard University, who said he wouldn't even give a female classmate a beer.
"I don't want to look like a predator," Gill told Bloomberg. "It's a little bit of a blurred line."….
As I've written before, women used to demand to be treated as equals; now they demand to be treated like eggshells.
Count me out.
Yeah, me too. We will keep hearing the question from women, "where have all the good men gone?" as they live in their cocoons, never understanding that the guys went on strike a while back and many have left for good. Are college women to blame for this? Yes, because as Martin Luther King says: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. If college women do not understand the injustices they are witnessing against men in our colleges today and strive to help, then they are part of the problem. They reap what they sow.
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The Adventures of Sky Diving, Walking on Fire and Eating Out Alone
52 Things, 52 weeks is a blog where the author describes herself as "Entertainment attorney. IP nerd. Foodie. Coffee lover. Mac enthusiast. Yoga addict. Insomniac. Shutterbug. World traveler." After reading my recent post, she decides this is the week she will try eating out alone:
Normally when I do something outside of my comfort zone on this blog it involves jumping out of a plane, walking on fire, or plunging into an ice-cold lake. While this week's post seems mundane by comparison, it actually made me really uncomfortable to think about it. When I saw an article asking "Are You Ashamed to Eat Out Alone?" I decided it was time to mark this one off of the list.
Yes, I've grabbed a quick bite here and there by myself before. I have a favorite lunch spot back home that I sneak off to each time I visit and I've spent hundreds (probably thousands) of hours studying alone at coffee shops. But I have never gone to a nice restaurant and enjoyed an entire meal alone.
I set up a few ground rules:
How adventurous! Maybe next time, she should take along a copy of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking just to complete the evening.
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Is Suicide Genetic?
No one could have predicted that Oscar-winning comedian Robin Williams would kill himself.
Or could they?
When someone commits suicide, the reaction is often the same. It's disbelief, mixed with a recognition that the signs were all there. Depression. Maybe talk of ending one's life.
Now, by studying people who think about committing suicide, as well as brains of people who actually did, two groups of genome researchers in the U.S. and Europe are claiming they can use DNA tests to actually predict who will attempt suicide.
While claims for a suicide test remain preliminary, and controversial, a "suicide gene" is not as fanciful as it sounds.
The problem is that suicide samples are small and I often wonder how much gender plays a role in the lack of studies and data on suicide:
"We seem to be able to predict suicidal behavior and attempts, based on seeing these epigenetic changes in the blood," says Kaminsky. "The caveat is that we have small sample sizes."
Kaminsky says that following the report, his e-mail inbox was immediately flooded by people wanting the test. "They wanted to know, if my dad died from suicide, is my son at risk?" he says….
The bigger problem, says Dracheva, is that there are simply not enough brains of suicide victims to study. Unlike studies of diabetes or schizophrenia, where scientists can call on thousands or tens of thousands of patients, suicide studies remain small, and their findings much more tentative.
It's because they don't have DNA from enough people who committed suicide that researchers, including those at Hopkins and Max Planck, have had to try connecting the dots between DNA and whether or not people have suicidal thoughts. Yet there's no straight line between the contemplation of suicide and actually doing it.
Of the more than 38,000 suicides in this country, over 30,000 are by men, yet the suicide studies remain small? Why?
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How Does Institutional Bias Affect Men?
I wondered about this a few weeks ago as I watched a Question and Answer session for perspective students at a large Washington D.C. Law School. The Q&A was about an hour and the admissions speaker was a lively woman who seemed very oriented to students and happy to answer questions about the LSAT, the law school and how to do one's best in the application process. The future students were eager to ask questions and hands around the room went up quickly. There were around 50 people, about half men, half women in the room. But I noticed that the speaker mainly called on the women students, even if a man had raised his hand first. She even said "I will get to you in a minute" to a male student but then called on a couple of women instead: one woman was even called on three times! I wondered if the speaker even knew she was doing this.
I must admit that part of the problem was the way that the guys in the room were trying to ask questions. Their hand did not go up as aggressively as the girl's hands nor were their voices as strong or as loud. They were softer and more hesitant than the women's and I often could not hear them as well. Is this a function of men with softer voices applying to enter law school or were they more timid in this particular setting? Were they picking up that they were the underdogs in this situation and that they were not getting the same attention? If I am observing this behavior in one academic setting, how many more men are being affected by academics and administrators around the country who may be treating them differently?
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How Deadlifts and Squats Changed My Life
I have been following Mark Rippetoe's Starting Strength program twice a week now for a few months. I have to say it has worked really well for me.
Since having a heart attack many years ago, I was afraid to do squats and deadlifts with much weight, if at all. However, Mark gave me the confidence to feel that I could indeed, do them again, albeit with some modifications. I have been using lighter weight, mainly just the 45 pound bar for deadlifts and the same for squats. Yeah, it's light but sometimes I add five pounds on each side if I feel like it. I do three sets of five reps of each of the exercises with rest in-between as Rippetoe suggests. At first, I thought it didn't seem like this plan would do much but I have noticed subtle changes over the past few weeks.
My lower back rarely hurts and my legs are much stronger. I have been doing overhead presses also that help me keep my posture in line and my upper body no longer hurts from the computer as much as it did. I feel better and can easily squat down now to lift things more readily. The idea of these exercises is to give one more functional ability in his or her daily life and they definitely have done that for me. I am still doing some yoga and other exercise for variety but I think the squats and deadlifts have really been key to helping me achieve the goals that I wanted–less pain and more ability to do tasks in my daily life. Thanks Mark!
Check out some of Mark Rippetoe's biggest hits at PJ Lifestyle:
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Which Variables Most Influence Where You Choose to Live?
It seems that people pick places to live on other variables than happiness:
If New York is so unhappy, why do so many people keep living there? That's one of the many questions at stake in a new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Researchers from Harvard and the University of British Columbia used people's self-reported life satisfaction data from the CDC to try to determine a geography of American happiness. What they found is that among the biggest metropolitan areas, the Big Apple is the unhappiest. Scranton, Pennsylvania, takes the honor of the least happy metro area of any size. Meanwhile, Richmond is the happiest large metro area, and Charlottesville, Virginia, is the happiest of any size…..
The data also carries in it an insight into how people make major life choices. If people only sought to live in happy places, cities like Richmond and Charlottesville, Virginia would be swamped with people, while New York would be desolate. Clearly, that hasn't happened.
"One interpretation of these facts is that individuals do not aim to maximize self-reported well-being, or happiness, as measured in surveys, and they willingly endure less happiness in exchange for higher incomes or lower housing costs," they write.
That said, places with low income growth and low population growth also tend to be particularly unhappy, both currently and historically.
"[C]ities that have declined also seem to have been unhappy in the past, which suggests that … these areas were always unhappy — and that was one reason why they declined," write the authors.
The upshot seems to be that people make decisions based on happiness, but only on a limited basis. So at least in the economics world, there's more to life than being happy.
It seems that people go where the money or jobs are earlier in life and then often move to places that make them happy or that have lower taxes when they retire or maybe lower taxes makes them happy as they have more time to do other things with their money. The problem is that people ruin these places such as NYC etc. with their politics and then move to the lower tax states such as the South to retire and then try to ruin these places with their politics and the cycle continues.
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How to Excel at Math and Science (Even if You Flunked Algebra)
I have been reading Barbara Oakley's new book A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) this week. It's a fascinating and fun read if you want to learn math, science, or, like me, just want to improve your memory.
I was actually pretty decent at math as my father was a mathematician and I grew up learning to love numbers. However, I had no natural talent, just no fear, which is important in learning math. Oakley makes this point throughout the book as she believes most people can learn math (and science) with the right tools and mindset. She is an engineering professor who failed her way through high school math but tackled these skills as an adult. Here is more about the book:
In A Mind for Numbers, Dr. Oakley lets us in on the secrets to effectively learning math and science—secrets that even dedicated and successful students wish they'd known earlier. Contrary to popular belief, math requires creative, as well as analytical, thinking. Most people think that there's only one way to do a problem, when in actuality, there are often a number of different solutions—you just need the creativity to see them. For example, there are more than three hundred different known proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem. In short, studying a problem in a laser-focused way until you reach a solution is not an effective way to learn math. Rather, it involves taking the time to step away from a problem and allow the more relaxed and creative part of the brain to take over. A Mind for Numbers shows us that we all have what it takes to excel in math, and learning it is not as painful as some might think!
Relaxing while trying to learn math sounds counterintuitive but it works, according to the book. One of my favorite chapters is called "tools, tips, and tricks" and it gives the reader positive mental tricks to use to their advantage in learning. She tackles procrastination and gets tips from experts regarding their student, such as "No going onto the computer during their procrastination time. It's too engrossing," "Before procrastinating, identify the easiest homework problem," and "Copy the equation or equations that are needed to solve the problem onto a small piece of paper and carry the paper around until they are ready to quit procrastinating and get back to work."
All this seems to lead to being a bit more creative and perhaps a bit more relaxed. Come to think of it, the above tips would be helpful in writing a blog post except the writer has to use the computer and cannot avoid it. Anyway, the book is great and goes into more detail about how to increase your memory with metaphors and visualization. Pick it up if you want to know more about how to succeed at math and science or if you just need to improve your memory and learning ability.
Cross-posted from Dr. Helen's blog
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Want to Get Rich? Buy a Walgreens
I am reading a book by Tom Wheelwright called Tax-Free Wealth: How to Build Massive Wealth by Permanently Lowering Your Taxes (Rich Dad Advisors) and trying to figure out how to reduce taxes. Many of the strategies are a bit too complicated and risky for many people, including myself.
For example, in chapter nineteen on "The Magic of Real Estate," the author suggests that you find a Walgreens to buy. You buy Walgreens property, they find the land, build the building, sell the land and building to the investor, and lease them back for 30 years. Okay, so now, you as the investor pay the mortgage. Then Walgreens sends you a check that you deposit in your account. "So you don't have to do anything. You travel all over the world with the investment income for your Walgreen's property til a ripe old age."
The next paragraph goes into how one can use depreciation deductions to further shelter your taxes. All this "sounds" easy, right? Wrong, not to me anyway. You need accountants that are hard to get in touch with, constant documentation, and tax planning that sounds pretty complicated. In addition, I thought there was a depreciation recapture which means some of the money will have to be paid back at some point if you sell it. It sounds like a headache. And what if Walgreens goes bankrupt? What do you do then? Books like these always make it sound like nothing will go wrong.
Don't get me wrong, the book is good, interesting and makes some good points about how to save on taxes but dealing with so many professionals, their costs and all of the accounting really sounds time consuming and if time is money, as the book mentions, aren't you just trading one form of work for another?
If you have some simple tax saving strategies, please share them below (legal ones please!).
cross-posted from Dr. Helen's blog
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My Experience at the First International Men's Conference So Far
I have been at the men's conference sponsored by A Voice for Men in Detroit for the past couple of days. It has been quite a delight to meet up with so many like-minded people on men's issues. I met in person many of my personal heroes including paternity fraud activist Carnell Smith, columnist Barb Kay, author Warren Farrell, and more.
The crowd of what looked to be about two or three hundred people were diverse and ranged from all ages to all ethnic backgrounds. There were more men there but almost as many women it seemed! There were young men attending the conference who quietly came up and asked me to sign books and middle-aged and older who just stopped by and told me they had read my book and felt that it helped them in some way.
I met the young women who call themselves the Honey Badgers who fund-raised enough money to pay their expenses to go to the conference. Many people at the conference had sacrificed a lot to be there whether it was paying their own way, taking time off from work or struggling with physical problems that limited their ability to travel. I was in awe and amazed at the great group of intellectual speakers and the audience who asked questions that were critically thought out and challenging.
My only concern with the conference was the media that was present. I'll explain on the next page.
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VIDEO: The War Against Men's Sports
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Great Advice from Clint Eastwood
I am looking forward to seeing Eastwood's new movie, Jersey Boys, and saw this article on his thoughts of directing as he gets older:
You have more experience as you get older. You have more to draw on, as long as you don't lose your faculties. You can play on that if you're lucky enough genetically or you take good enough care of yourself, or a combination of the two. You can go ahead and experiment with things. There's so many different stories to tell out there. You can be 21 or 81. … If you tell yourself, "I'm too old to do that" bulls—. You're not too old to do anything.
I have always wondered why people and our society in general try so hard to get older people to give up in life and often times, at a pretty early age. My experience is that once you hit 37, people start telling you that you are too old to do so many things. If you live to be Eastwood's age (84), that is almost 50 years of negative messages coming one's way. Good thing he probably never listened.
Cross-posted from Dr. Helen's blog
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Dating is War
I have been reading and re-reading the book this week and her chapter on dating was particularly interesting.
In a section called "Dating is War," Amy describes dating rudeness and perceived rudeness. She makes a good point: "The truth is, in dating, a good bit of the hurt and anger people feel is caused not by rude behavior but by misconceptions about the opposite sex and the way things 'should' work as opposed to the ways they actually do." The war between the sexes, according to the book, is one that goes back millions of years and has to do with the ensuing differences in what sex can end up costing us. Women want men who can provide if she gets pregnant and men like the sight of a good looking woman. Well, it's more complicated than that, but you get the idea.
She says we need to accept that men act like men and women act like women when it comes to dating and that it is evolutionary. Perhaps, but then, many things are "evolutionary" but we strive to be better than that or to change our response to something that may have served us well as cave men but now, not so much.
That said, Amy has great advice for those who are dating, for example: Don't date people you aren't attracted to, assume that everyone you meet on the Internet is lying their ass off until proven otherwise, and how to politely tell a potential sexual partner that you have an STD (prior to having sex is the first step). Luckily, she provides good advice on how to deal with each of these areas so that you come out of the dating experience with some dignity!
The book is loads of fun and very entertaining. If you want to learn manners on anything from dealing with a bad neighbor to eating, drinking and socializing in modern times, read it.
Cross-posted from Dr. Helen's blog
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'As a Male You're Supposed to Enjoy It…'
A 36 -year- old woman in New Zealand gave birth to the baby of an 11 year old boy but not much can be done about it (via A Voice for Men):
An 11-year-old boy fathered a child after sex with a school friend's 36-year-old mother.
Both the father and child are now understood to be in care after the principal at the boy's school raised the alarm.
The case has caused counsellors working in the area of child sexual abuse to highlight the lack of attention given to women as potential offenders.
It has prompted Justice Minister Judith Collins to step in saying she will seek more information on the law. "This case raises an important point. I will seek advice from officials on whether or not a law change is required."….
Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse manager Ken Clearwater said if the case were proved, the woman should be held accountable for her actions. Making charges able to be brought dependent on the gender of the offender was wrong and the law should be changed. "It is a huge issue for us."
He said male victims of sex abuse carried out by women were equally as damaged as any other victim of rape.
"As a male you're supposed to enjoy it but we don't say that about young girls. Males are not seen as victims. The psychological damage is huge – and they carry extra shale because it's a woman and you're supposed to enjoy it."
Mr Clearwater said most abuse of the sort in this case was not reported.
And it has also highlighted disparity in the law of rape, which makes it impossible for a woman to be accused of the crime.
This is a sad case and an unfair one. The law should be changed and as soon as possible.
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Should Halle Berry Pay Child Support of $16,000 a Month?
A reader alerted me (thanks) that Halle Berry has been ordered to pay child support to her ex-boyfriend:
A judge has approved a settlement between Halle Berry and her ex-boyfriend over child support payments for their 6-year-old daughter.
The agreement approved by Superior Court Judge Scott Gordon on May 30 calls for Berry to pay ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry $16,000 a month or nearly $200,000 a year to support their daughter, Nahla. The Oscar-winning actress will also pay for their daughter's tuition, but the former couple will split health care expenses.
The order also calls for Berry to pay her ex-boyfriend a retroactive payment of $115,000 and $300,000 to his attorneys to cover the costs of their custody dispute.
Berry and Aubry, a model, were involved in a custody dispute in 2012, and a judge blocked her from moving their daughter to France.
Gordon's order only affects child support payments.
While these big custody and child support cases like this make headlines, the truth is, women still pay a small percentage of child support. I was recently watching the Independents, a Fox business show about the "War on Men" and Jill Filipovic of the Feministe blog said that women are now paying a great deal of the alimony and child support. This is hardly true. It may seem like it as the media and women complain if they have to pony up the cash, but men still pay the majority of child support and women rarely pay alimony.
What do you think? Is the settlement in the Berry case fair or unfair?
Cross-posted from Dr. Helen's blog
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Greg Gutfeld Reveals How to Defeat the Hipster Elite
I am reading Greg Gutfeld's new book Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You. It's a very funny book that looks at how our culture is infiltrated with those who think that being cool is the only way to be. The book's premise is that being cool is not only annoying, it is dangerous. "We used to consider the right thing to do; now we consider the cool thing to do." Rather than help parents through tough times, people adopt a tiger through the World Wildlife Fund. Rather than do anything hard, just do something cool, it is easier and gets one liked without sacrifice or risk.
According to Gutfeld, the cool conformists, mostly liberals, try to make you believe the following:
How do the cool enslave you? By convincing you that:
- If you don't agree with them no one will like you.
- If you don't follow them you will miss out on life.
- If you don't listen to them you will die a lonely loser.
I laughed as I read this, thinking back to a few hipsters I had worked with once who told me that if I didn't do what they wanted, I wouldn't be invited to parties. I was dumbstruck. "Do I look like I care?" was all I could think of saying. But their behavior was intriguing to me, as well as a bit revolting. Who would respond to this type of incentive? Are they used to persuading people this way? If so, it must normally work. Why would anyone go along with this type of manipulation?
Gutfeld's book explores why people desire so much to be cool and it seems to boil down to the fact that many people are conformists who would rather do something easy that makes them feel good about themselves than take a stand and risk not being liked: "Coolness is a replacement for a strong ego and operates as a safe ambivalent response to evil in the world. The result: We are left with a dreary planet of self-esteem sponges more interested in capturing the approval of phonies than actually doing something real or positive with their lives."
My question is: Is being liked so important that people will risk everything this country used to stand for in order to be invited to the party?
Cross-posted from Dr. Helen's blog
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Is Discrimination Against Boys Ruining the Economy?
This is an important question, but the more important one is "does the current government care?" "Probably not," I thought, as I read this recent article at the New York Times titled "A Link Between Fidgety boys and a Sputtering Economy?":
By kindergarten, girls are substantially more attentive, better behaved, more sensitive, more persistent, more flexible and more independent than boys, according to a new paper from Third Way, a Washington research group. The gap grows over the course of elementary school and feeds into academic gaps between the sexes. By eighth grade, 48 percent of girls receive a mix of A's and B's or better. Only 31 percent of boys do….
By kindergarten, boys already fare much worse on social and behavioral measures than girls. The gender gap is even larger than the class gap and some racial gaps…
And in an economy that rewards knowledge, the academic struggles of boys turn into economic struggles. Men's wages are stagnating. Men are much more likely to be idle — neither working, looking for work nor caring for family — than they once were and much more likely to be idle than women.
We reported last week that the United States had lost its once-enormous global lead in middle-class pay, based on international income surveys over the last three decades.
The traits that boys have in our current school system are seen as destructive and annoying. Our society does not reward "knowledge" as much as it rewards conformity and feminized traits. Teachers who don't like the way boys act, particularly female teachers, give boys bad grades.
Add to this discrimination the current administration's war against college men and you have a recipe for men bailing out of the system, going to the underground economy, or saying "to hell with it" and getting disability payments. Perhaps this is the plan of the current regime.
Boys and men are marginalized (unless they take up with the PC ruling class as many do), the politicians are made to look like they are helping girls and women who turn to them for ever more goods and services, and the economy not only sputters but starts to sink. People groan about the poor economy, not realizing that they are the ones contributing to it by their compliance, and the circle is complete. Will we break it before it is too late?
What do you think?
Cross-posted from Dr. Helen's blog
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Why Men Cannot Trust Feminist Academics Who Write on Men
I read with interest (and quite frankly, disgust) an interview with Michael Kimmel, author of books such as Guyland and Angry White Men, over at Just Four Guys blog. It made me realize why men should not trust Uncle Tims like Kimmel. Here is a summary of where academics like Kimmel stand:
PROF. KIMMEL: The United States has never been more gender equal. We've never been more sexually equal. We've never been more racially equal. Sure, on each front, we have a long way to go for full equality. There is still lots of discrimination against women, LGBT people, and people of color. But we have never been more equal. And we will be more equal tomorrow than we are today. And I'm happy to report that we are not going to go forward into the past. Women are not going to have some V8 moment in which they say "Oh, yeah, this equality stuff sucks, I hate voting, and driving, and serving on juries, and having a job, and having my own bank account, and having orgasms." Let's go back the way it used to be on Mad Men.
So the question for men, in my view, is simple: we can be dragged kicking and screaming into that more equal future, or we can walk courageously into that future, knowing that our lives, as men, will, be better for it, that the more equal we are, the better our relationships with our friends, our wives and partners, our children will be. Gender equality is not a zero-sum game; it's a win-win. I support gender equality not only because it's right and fair and just and patriotically American – which it is – but because I also know it is in my interests to do so.
No, Kimmel, men have real issues right now that you have not addressed. Campuses accusing them unfairly of rape without due process, fathers being torn from kids due to abusive family courts, men forced to pay for children that are not their own, and boys growing up without male role models. You talk about how teens like Trayvon Martin etc. need help from the men's rights movement. Bullshit. Men like Chris Mackney need and deserve our help. I will be there to help them, will you? Somehow, I doubt it.
Cross-posted from Dr. Helen's blog
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Should Dads Keep Their Sons Away from Oprah?
Tucker Carlson doesn't want his son watching Oprah:
Over the weekend, Fox News host Tucker Carlson shared a personal decision he made to protect his young son: No more Oprah Winfrey. During a discussion about a father who decided to "break up" with rap music for the sake of his baby girl, Carlson said he did the same with Winfrey for his son.
"I know the feeling," Carlson said, commiserating with the man who was fed up with the "misogyny" of rap music. "When I had a son, I stopped watching Oprah because it was just too anti-male, and I felt like I didn't want to bring him up in a home where Oprah was constantly attacking men."
Good for you, Tucker. Women like Oprah tend to treat men as foreign beings who are accessories to women at best and outright predators and perverts at worst. On the other hand, it might help to explain to a boy the psychological dynamics of what these women are doing so that he can learn to protect himself as he gets older. Or you can give him a copy of my book…
Cross-posted from Dr. Helen
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Heavy Metal Rockers
I am often amazed at how many talented and resourceful professionals read this blog or my husband Glenn's blog and let us know the amazing things they are doing. I recently acquired two beautiful heavy metal rocking chairs that my friend Hodge Golson, a business psychologist designed with the help of artist Andrew Crawford. Here is what Hodge had to say about his vision:
Many years ago I stumbled across a metal rocking chair that was as much a piece of sculpture as furniture. It was an immediate emotional reaction. I loved it. But would it be comfortable? Amazingly so, I discovered as I settled into it and rocked a bit. But I couldn't afford the $3,000 price tag. Although I left the chair in the store, I couldn't let go of it….
Serendipity introduced me to Andrew Crawford, a blacksmith sculptor who was eager to take on the project. As a point of reference, he pointed me in the direction of Sam Maloof, an artist he had known who had quite a professional career designing and building great wooden rockers. So I designed my own version of my original obsession.
I have to say the chairs are amazing, beautiful, comfortable and a piece of art that have wowed everyone that has seen them. If you want to check them out, you can take a look at the website at HeavyMetalRocker.com.
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Queer Madness is a zine by Wilum Pugmire.
Queer Madness was released in the 1980s, although the date given on the cover is 1781, as was Wilum Pugmire's custom in dating his zines.
Writers featured included Jessica Amanda Salmonson (Young Tyrone: A Melodrama), who contributed the stories "Deep Memory" to the first issue and "Cabbage Man" to the second issue.
Artists featured included David Vosburgh and Maurice Squidd.
Issue three featured a six page article on Bela Lugosi by Gary Dorst, with accompanying illustrations by David Billman and Allen Koszowski. Also included is a collage story by Michael Roden, that features hand drawn elements and hand lettered text.
This zine was included in the 33rd mailing of the APA "The Esoteric Order of Dagon".
Wilum Pugmire also produced the zines Midnight Fantasies, Old Bones and Punk Lust, among others.


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