Well, there’s one problem …

I’m ending up too wiped at day’s end after my new schedule to really focus for blogging. So links again today, but I imagine if I wasn’t cooking dinner (it’s an omelet so it’s waiting for TYG to come home before I throw on the eggs) I’d have a little more pizazz at this point.
•I have a new And column out on rape apologists and particularly loathsome quotes. While at the end I offer some things we should be telling sons (instead of just warning daughters), Yes Means Yes reminds us that some rapists simply aren’t interested (“They don’t misunderstand, they just don’t like the answer.”) but that “consent education” is still a good thing.
•I mentioned on Monday that Eden Foods is fighting the contraceptives-covered-by-insurance mandate as a violation of its religious freedom. Now it turns out that Eden Foods’ CEO says he has no religious convictions on the subject, he just doesn’t like government telling him what to do.
•Justice Antonin Scalia explains the Voting Rights Act should go away because it’s giving racial preferment to black people. Because of, what, the right it gives minorities to have two votes counted for every white one?
•Doing more with less people is taking its toll on workers. And boosting profits. And making workers more afraid.
•LGM, in discussing how Ivy League colleges pass on privilege, references a Ross Douthat column (Douthat: ” That the actual practice of meritocracy mostly involves a strenuous quest to avoid any kind of downward mobility, for oneself or for one’s kids, is something every upper-class American understands deep in his or her highly educated bones.”) and generally agrees.
LGM goes on to make the argument that “race” is the first thing people blame when they don’t get into college and think they should, and I believe in a lot of cases, that’s true. A lot of people freak out about affirmative action but never bat an eye at legacy admissions (alum kids get preference) or geographic preference (schools favoring certain parts of the country). And those are often way more significant than affirmative action or racial programs (yet curiously nobody seems to suggest that legacy admissions will be scarred knowing they made it in on something other than merit, one of the standard rationalizations made against affirmative action)
However, I’m much less impressed with Douthat’s column. It references Susan Patton’s letter urging Princeton women to marry in college, but treats it more as a matter of common sense (we marry people we know and bond with), ignoring that Patton isn’t just saying “marry a Princeton man” but that you should marry one before you graduate (or risk that all your life you will dream on alone). Given Douthat’s usual sexism, I suspect he’s quite fine with Patton’s advice.
•And here’s my state, North Carolina, pushing to keep students from voting. Because (as in most other efforts of this sort), they vote wrong.