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Can we just shut down Slate today?
William Saletan writes:
The invisible pregnancies of presidential daughters: Barbara and Jenna [Bush]... Doro [Bush]... Patti [Reagan]... Susan [Ford]... Tricia... and Julie [Nixon]... Lynda... and Luci [Johnson]...
You get the picture.
Nothing, of course, about the boys.
And Saletan gets his math wrong too--by a factor of about thirty, I think.
Why oh why can't we have a better press corps?
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The Eighteen-Year-Old is going to college next year, which means that I need to think about making more money. (The idea that one might write checks to rather than receive checks from universities is now strange to me.) So I have signed up with the Leigh Speakers' Bureau which also handles, among many others: Chris Anderson; Suzanne Berger; Michael Boskin; Kenneth Courtis; Clive Crook; Bill Emmott; Robert H. Frank; William Goetzmann; Douglas J. Holtz-Eakin; Paul Krugman; Bill McKibben; Paul Romer; Jeffrey Sachs; Robert Shiller;James Surowiecki; Martin Wolf; Adrian Wooldridge.
Eeeewwwww.... What is his point? That all those other girls are probably sluts and babykillers, but we just don't have proof? So admire Sarah & Bristol Palin for their honesty and courage? ???
Jane Smiley says it all today in the Huffington Post.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smiley/womens-issue_b_123120.html
Posted by: Leila Abu-Saba | September 02, 2008 at 09:54 AM
William Saletan writes on interesting topics and gets at least part of them wrong with some consistency. I've learned to stop clicking on his articles, but sometimes they are presented without byline on Slate's front page.
I still say that Slate's Explainer is worth reading.
Posted by: Measure for Measure | September 02, 2008 at 10:00 AM
My goodness, what twisting of the jello-like Republican mob is required.
Wasn't it just a few months ago when moral outrage was peaking over the juvenile pregnancies of Brittany Spears' sister and Lindsey Lohan's sister?
Wasn't this the sign of the ultimate moral decline of liberal America?
And what about young miorities that have young pregnancies? Wasn't that a sign of the failure of their homelife, where they had a baby just because they wanted someone to love them unconditionally? Wasn't that the sad but predictable result of broken homes?
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And as for Mr Saleton--since when do statistical data imply individual outcomes? HMMM?
Posted by: Neal | September 02, 2008 at 10:13 AM
Why is the math wrong? saletan writes:
"Only 3 percent to 4 percent of women in the higher income bracket had unintended pregnancies in the two sampled years. On the other hand, the unintended pregnancy rate in the 18-29 age bracket is nearly double the overall unintended pregnancy rate. So if you factor age into the equation, the rate of unintended pregnancy among 18- to 29-year-olds in the higher income bracket is probably around 6 percent to 7 percent."
about twice 3 to 4 is 6 to 7%, correct? thanks!
[The annual abortion rate among unmarried well-off white women of childbearing age in America today is not 6%, but rather 1%. Saletan cannot do math, and should not try.]
Posted by: GabbyD | September 02, 2008 at 10:32 AM