More random links
- Failing to cover the Christ Our Savior video riot
- Some thoughts on the jailing of the Russian band Pussy Riot from the GetReligion blog.
- Racism by Political Party
- A response to a comment from an MSNBC journalist that "It is undeniably the case that racist Americans are almost entirely in one political coalition and not the other" with actual statistics. The conclusion: "It is undeniable that some Americans are racist but racists split about evenly across the parties. No party has a monopoly on racists."
- Generation Read: Millennials Buy More Books Than Everybody Else
- "millennials now buy 30 percent of books. In comparison, baby boomers, who have far more disposable income than most millennials, only made 24 percent of book purchases."
- College Students Don’t Respect Peers Who ‘Hook Up’ Too Much: Survey
- The development of the so-called single standard for sexual conduct across gender. "women in sororities who lived in Greek housing were 42 percent more likely to hold a reverse double standard than an egalitarian libertarian view of hooking up." If you've ever stumbled across 'game', one thing that many of those who try to practice is seem to argue is that one should pay attention to what women do rather than what they say. This particular bit would seem to support that assertion.