Still more random links
- Mideast men go under knife for manly mustaches
- I think I'll pass on this plastic surgery craze.
- Tesla’s risky vision puts Detroit to shame
- "Several of Tesla’s giant competitors have made decent forays into electric vehicles, whether hybrid or fully battery-powered. But the Model S is in a different class. The sleek new sedan has space for up to seven. It’s fast, with some versions speeding from zero to 60 miles an hour in about four seconds. It’s full of the latest gadgets, from a 17-inch touch-screen control panel to automatically retracting door handles. And it can travel as far as 300 miles on one charge, and be ready to go again after 30 minutes plugged into a high-power charging station." Still $50,000 for the base model, but this seems like quite an improvement for electric cars and one that seems to be garnering the company awards.
- Stop That Feminist Viral Statistic Meme
- On the claim that women own only 1% of the world's property: "That thing you might have heard, about women's work, income and property ownership -- it's not true. (And yes, I really am a feminist.)"
- The Burpo-Malarkey Doctrine
- "It's odd and troubling that the best-selling evangelical book of the past decade is a fanciful account of heaven spun from the imagination of a four-year-old boy... Blogger Tim Challies has labeled the genre 'Heaven Tourism,' candidly dismissing one bestseller in the category as 'pure junk, fiction in the guise of biography, paganism in the guise of Christianity.'"