The Good Stuff

• Via skippy and a year late:  What I've suspected for many years is true -- stupidity and prejudice correlate.

  In an analysis of two large-scale, nationally representative United Kingdom data sets (N = 15,874), we found that lower general intelligence (g) in childhood predicts greater racism in adulthood, and this effect was largely mediated via conservative ideology.
  
  A secondary analysis of a U.S. data set confirmed a predictive effect of poor abstract-reasoning skills on antihomosexual prejudice, a relation partially mediated by both authoritarianism and low levels of intergroup contact. All analyses controlled for education and socioeconomic status.

• Paid holidays, by country.  At Mills River Progressive.
• People who think they're saving a few million by postponing maintenance but end up having to spend many millions for repairs are, let's be blunt, not your friends.
• The so-called Family Policy Institute throws whoppers about a rape case in Washington state.  
• Lance Mannion administers the Vulcan mind-meld to a New York Times editorial writer about something that writer should have remembered.
• But then, "the NYTimes worships state power" (thank you, Arthur Silber).  (You might also want to read "You Say You Want a Peaceful Revolution," same author, if you want a peaceful revolution.  You won't like the other kind, you know.)