Wednesday

Noteworthy Freebie

Highly recommended: A free online book against abortion: 101 Girls Guide.Com. The author, Serena Gaefke, has gathered together a wide assortment of quotes and passages from pro-choice literature, thereby revealing their insidious agenda and mendacious methods. I've read a handful of the chapters. It's an enjoyable read.

FLOP!

I guess TDE will remain free for awhile longer:

In late October, Newsday, the Long Island daily that the Dolans bought for $650 million, put its web site, newsday.com, behind a pay wall. The paper was one of the first non-business newspapers to take the plunge by putting up a pay wall, so in media circles it has been followed with interest. Could its fate be a sign of what others, including The New York Times, might expect?

So, three months later, how many people have signed up to pay $5 a week, or $260 a year, to get unfettered access to newsday.com?

The answer: 35 people.

Link.

If you read the entire article, it's not as bad as it appears, but it's still a splash of cold water for any news outlet that's thinking about requiring a subscription to access its Internet content.

Not Counting Courtships

Hmmmmm:

“In 2003, a survey of female veterans found that 30 percent said they were raped in the military. A 2004 study of veterans who were seeking help for post-traumatic stress disorder found that 71 percent of the women said they were sexually assaulted or raped while serving. And a 1995 study of female veterans of the Gulf and earlier wars, found that 90 percent had been sexually harassed.”

Link.

The perpetrators ought to be castrated and sent to prison, but would it be too politically-correct if I suggested that maybe such stunning numbers are an indication that women don't belong in the military, at least not in conventionally-male roles? Disclosure: I know next to nothing about military ways, so I welcome (and leave myself open for) rebuttals and corrections on this one.