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Academic achievement Boys who fail at school grow into men who are likely to struggle in life. Poorly educated men face a brutal labor  market, as job opportunities in traditionally male, blue-collar occupations evaporate. Among men with only a high-school education, one in three is out of the labor force. For those who have a job, typical earnings are $881 a week, down from $1,017 in 1979. Richard Reeves, Atlantic Magazine, October 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Academic achievement But I believe the biggest reason for boys' classroom struggles is simply that male brains develop more slowly than female brains — or at least those parts of the brain that enable success in the classsroom. The gaps in brain development are clearly visible around the age of 5, and they persist through elementary and middle school. … The brain-development trajectories of boys and girls diverge further, and most dramatically, as adolescence progresses — with the widest gaps around the age of 16 or 17. I hardly need to say that these are crucial years for educational achievement. … From a strictly neuroscientific perspective, the education system is tilted in favor of girls. Richard Reeves, Atlantic Magazine, October 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Academic achievement In the U.S., almost one in five boys does not graduate high school on time, compared with one in 10 girls — the rate for boys is about the same as that for students from low-income families. Richard Reeves, Atlantic Magazine, October 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Assholes Assholes and fully cooperative people have very different moral views of what their respective entitlements are. To bring out the differences, compare the point of view of “fully cooperative” people. Fully cooperative people, we may say, see themselves as equals, as having grounds for special treatment only in special circumstances that others equally enjoy at the appropriate times. … The asshole, by contrast, sees no need for special circumstancs to come his way in the normal course of things. Aaron James, Assholes: A Theory © 2022 Kwiple.com
Assholes Assholes … are made not born. They are made by society's gender culture. Aaron James, Assholes: A Theory © 2022 Kwiple.com
Assholes Our theory is simply this: a person counts as an asshole  when, and only when, he systematically allows himself to enjoy special advantages in  interpersonal relations out of an entrenched sense of entitlement that immunizes him against the complaints of other people. … We are looking for (1) a stable trait of  character, (2) that leads a person to impose only small or moderate material costs on others, (3) but that nevertheless qualifies the person as morally repugnant. … The asshole takes himself to be justified  in enjoying special advantages. Aaron James, Assholes: A Theory © 2022 Kwiple.com
Assholes We have suggested that the asshole is morally repugnant because, even when the material costs he imposes are small, he fails to recognize others in a fundamental, morally important way. This is the heart and soul of our account of why the asshole is so bothersome. … The asshole … is wholly immunized against the complaints of others.  Whether or not the complaint is ultimately reasonable, the person is not registered, from the asshole's point of view, as worthy of consideration. Aaron James, Assholes: A Theory © 2022 Kwiple.com
Conspiracy theorists I used to think conspiracy theories were the refuge of the powerless and the uneducated. … But conspiracy theorists have moved from the streets to the suites. They have become presidents of countries, including Turkey and Brazil. In the US, Donald Trump  — who sees plots against him everywhere — is planning his political comeback. The most dangerous conspiracy theorist of them all is Vladimir Putin, who is currently threatening the world with nuclear war. Gideon Rachman, Financial Times, October 3, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus COVID, turns out, not good. Donald Trump © 2022 Kwiple.com
Globalization … regionalisation, not globalisation, is the future. Rana Foroohar, Financial Times, February 21, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Government The issue of government has always been whether individual men and women will have to serve some system of government and economics, or whether a system of government and economics exists to serve individual men and women. Franklin Delano Roosevelt © 2021 Kwiple.com
Higher education  Half a century ago, the landmark title IX law was passed to promote gender equality.  At  the time, there was a gap of 13 percentage  points in the proportion of bachelor's degrees given to men compared with women. Today, the gender gap is a little wider — 15 percentage points as of 2019 — but the other way around. For every three female college students, there are only about two men. The trend worsened during the pandemic. College enrollment as a whole declined in 2020 — but that decline was seven times greater for male than for female students. Richard Reeves, Atlantic Magazine, October 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Count votes in Congress by: 1. Calculating a Member's Proportional Vote (MPV) for each member, as follows: MPV = SPNP / NLRS where: SPNP = State's Percentage of the National Population NLRS = Number of Legislators Representing the State (in that legislature) 2. Totaling “yes” MPVs and “no” MPVs 3. Passing if total MPV is more than 50 OTHERWISE Abolish the Senate © 2019 Kwiple.com
Liars say I was having meetings.  I was also with Mark Meadows and others. I was not watching television. Donald Trump, on what he was doing on January 6 while his supporters attacked the Capitol © 2022 Kwiple.com
Political parties They've got a set of Republican waiters  on one side and a set of Democratic waiters on the other side, but no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the legislative grub is all prepared in the same Wall Street kitchen. Huey Long, 1932 campaign speech for the reeledtion of Senator Hattie Caraway (D-AR) © 2022 Kwiple.com
Post-2020 Senate shituation 15 states (Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming) 2020 population: 40,085,414 Senators: 30 Republicans 1 Senator per 1,336,180 people — 1 state (California) 2020 population: 39,368,075 Senators: 2 Democrats 1 Senator per 19,684,037 people 19,684,037 / 1,336,180 = 14.7, therefore: average 15er's vote is worth nearly 15 times a Californian's, a Californian's vote is worth less than 7% of an average 15er's — 1 state (Wyoming) 2020 population = 582,328, therefore: 1 Senator per 291,164 Wyomians, a Wyomian's vote is worth 68 times a Californian's, a Californian's vote is worth 1.5% of a Wyomian's  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Poverty The “working poor,” as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our ociety. They neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that other homes will be shiny and perfect; they endure privation so that inflation will be low and stock prices high. To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a nameless benefactor, to everyone else. Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed © 2022 Kwiple.com
Presidency The question I get asked more than any other question: “If you had to do it again, would you have done it?” The answer is, yeah, I think so. Because here's the way I look at it. I have [made] so many rich friends and nobody knows who they are. Donald Trump, on running for, and being, president © 2022 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say Take up less space. T. S. Eliot, responding to a questionnaire sent to many poets in 1922 that asked, “What in modern life is the particular function of poetry as distinguished from other kinds of literature?” © 2022 Kwiple.com
Selfie I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole. Benjamin Disraeli, on becoming Prime Minister in 1868 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He was always falling shitfaced somewhere. Rudy Giuliani portrayed by Judith Giuliani, his third wife © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot  You know why Lindsey kisses my ass? So I'll endorse his friends. Lindsey Graham portrayed by Donald Trump © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot His way to achieve catharsis is to hurt somebody. And I think he feels he has a liberty and license to do that. The normal rules of social engagement, he feels, don't apply to him. Steve Jobs portrayed by Jony Ive © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The Old Crow's a piece of shit. Mitch McConnell portrayed by Donald Trump © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I saved his ass. Mohammed bin Salman portrayed by Donald Trump after convincing Congress to ignore the fact thst bin Salman's ordered his minions to chop up and dispose of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The man is not an asshole, and indeed something of an antiasshole. For many progressives, this is a problem, as we  can see from their objections: he pulls back from using the powers he clearly has; he fails to respond to the opposition, allowing it to define the debate; he is too eager to listen, to understand, so as not to offend, to the point of being dragged away from his convictions by people stubborn in theirs; he makes premptive concessions in approaching the bargaining table and then further concessions down the line; he favors compromised policies that absorb everyone's concerns and that do much less good than they could. In short, progressives wish Obama could behave a lot more like an asshole. Barack Obama portrayed by Aaron James © 2022 Kwiple.com
 
Trumpists The most intriguing Donald Trump voters I met there weren't the most extreme. They were upper-middle people in several senses — age, income, education — who had never been able to play the rebel before. What he conferred on these country club and Chamber of Commerce types was the glamour of transgression: a sort of second youth. Again, I don’t say they were misguided. I just report the glee with which they cocked a snook. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, September 30, 2022 [“To cock a snook” is British slang for “to show disrespect for something”]  © 2022 Kwiple.com