Few myths are more hilarious than the belief that there is some sort of taboo placed on mental illness: “Far from being taboo, talking about mental illness, being mentally ill, is highly fashionable. People actively seek out a diagnosis of mental sickness.”
The secret lives of Tumblr teens.
“The University of Portland has launched a “Speak Up” webpage that encourages students to report “incidents of discomfort” to its Public Safety department. “We ask members of our community to SPEAK UP and report alleged incidents of discrimination and incidents of discomfort regarding observed or experienced interactions of intolerance,” the university states on the webpage.” And now consider how many bureaucrats will be needed to sort these discomfort complaints and you’ll know why tuition is skyrocketing. But are students or parents protesting? No? Then let them have it.
The sexual misery of the Arab world.
Bernie-splaining to black voters.
The precarious history of “Las Meninas.”
California is changing, and not in a good way.
Another idealistic young woman murdered by an asylum seeker in Europe.
The Clintons are in no way to blame for the growth in mass incarceration.

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