Monday Reads

This is a horrifying statistic.  This amounts to more than six percent of U.S. women, with around 20 percent having been raped in their lifetimes.

A lot of this has to do with easy access to porn, especially with regard to rape against young women.  Men cannot seem to get it through their thick heads they are not entitled to women's bodies.
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More proof, if any was ever needed, that Charles Koch is the most evil man in the United States.

When it comes to foreign policy, though, the agenda of the foundation — which supports education and research and constitutes a relatively small part of the Koch network — does not line up quite so neatly with partisan politics. In keeping with Charles Koch’s libertarian shrink-the-state imperative, the foundation has set out to bring an end to America’s age of endless wars and to reduce the nation’s military footprint around the world — a vision shared by many progressives, some of whom count themselves among the Koch grantees.

Since 2015, the foundation has committed more than $25 million to this effort. It has seeded academic programs at universities like Tufts, Notre Dame, the Catholic University of America, Texas A&M and the University of California, San Diego, in addition to Harvard and M.I.T. This summer, it also granted $460,000 — about a quarter of the start-up budget — to the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a new think tank that intends to challenge the “intellectual lethargy and dysfunction” of the foreign-policy establishment and to argue on behalf of greater military restraint. The left-leaning billionaire George Soros gave money through his foundation to the Quincy Institute as well, a strange-bedfellows arrangement much emphasized during the think tank’s rollout in late June — and a sign of how seriously the Trump presidency has shaken up traditional enmities and alliances.

This bastard needs to die, and his assets seized. Preferably, the assets should be seized while he is still alive.
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Good news as far as I am concerned about marriage rates plummeting.

Many dudes aren't cutting it anymore financially.  Even if they did, so many of them have such an entitled attitude it would be off putting for many women.
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