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The graph is indeed sad - but the comments on the WA Post page are depressing.
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"Touched by a Priest, Fingered by a Judge" Bravo Cienna.
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Nothing about Alabama's national title.

Three in the last four years.

What's that, seven in a row for the SEC?

Nothing.

Very hip.....

Way to burnish your faggoty street cred.....
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Why is there so much goddamn idiot trolling lately with regards to what Slog is or isn't covering?

Seriously, you fucking numbskull troll: There are OTHER news outlets, you know. Just because Slog is not covering your favorite idiot Sports news is no reason to get tour grimy underpants in a twist. Maybe check out Reddit for a while.
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P.s. yah, the 'Touched by a priest, fingered by a judge' line is comedy gold!
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Stranger Election Control (SEC?). Sounds incomplete.
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The rape graphic has been debunked:

link
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@7 the graph includes 'regret rape'. You know, the most heinous of all rapes occurring to 25% of all women on American college campuses.
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The Campus Rape Myth

It’s a lonely job, working the phones at a college rape crisis center. Day after day, you wait for the casualties to show up from the alleged campus rape epidemic—but no one calls. Could this mean that the crisis is overblown? No: it means, according to the campus sexual-assault industry, that the abuse of coeds is worse than anyone had ever imagined. It means that consultants and counselors need more funding to persuade student rape victims to break the silence of their suffering.

The campus rape movement highlights the current condition of radical feminism, from its self-indulgent bathos to its embrace of ever more vulnerable female victimhood. But the movement is an even more important barometer of academia itself. In a delicious historical irony, the baby boomers who dismantled the university’s intellectual architecture in favor of unbridled sex and protest have now bureaucratized both. While women’s studies professors bang pots and blow whistles at antirape rallies, in the dorm next door, freshman counselors and deans pass out tips for better orgasms and the use of sex toys. The academic bureaucracy is roomy enough to sponsor both the dour antimale feminism of the college rape movement and the promiscuous hookup culture of student life. The only thing that doesn’t fit into the university’s new commitments is serious scholarly purpose.

The campus rape industry’s central tenet is that one-quarter of all college girls will be raped or be the targets of attempted rape by the end of their college years (completed rapes outnumbering attempted rapes by a ratio of about three to two). The girls’ assailants are not terrifying strangers grabbing them in dark alleys but the guys sitting next to them in class or at the cafeteria.

This claim, first published in Ms. magazine in 1987, took the universities by storm. By the early 1990s, campus rape centers and 24-hour hotlines were opening across the country, aided by tens of millions of dollars of federal funding. Victimhood rituals sprang up: first the Take Back the Night rallies, in which alleged rape victims reveal their stories to gathered crowds of candle-holding supporters; then the Clothesline Project, in which T-shirts made by self-proclaimed rape survivors are strung on campus, while recorded sounds of gongs and drums mark minute-by-minute casualties of the “rape culture.” A special rhetoric emerged: victims’ family and friends were “co-survivors”; “survivors” existed in a larger “community of survivors.”
An army of salesmen took to the road, selling advice to administrators on how to structure sexual-assault procedures, and lecturing freshmen on the “undetected rapists” in their midst. Rape bureaucrats exchanged notes at such gatherings as the Inter Ivy Sexual Assault Conferences and the New England College Sexual Assault Network. Organizations like One in Four and Men Can Stop Rape tried to persuade college boys to redefine their masculinity away from the “rape culture.” The college rape infrastructure shows no signs of a slowdown. In 2006, for example, Yale created a new Sexual Harassment and Assault Resources and Education Center, despite numerous resources for rape victims already on campus.

If the one-in-four statistic is correct—it is sometimes modified to “one-in-five to one-in-four”—campus rape represents a crime wave of unprecedented proportions. No crime, much less one as serious as rape, has a victimization rate remotely approaching 20 or 25 percent, even over many years. The 2006 violent crime rate in Detroit, one of the most violent cities in America, was 2,400 murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults per 100,000 inhabitants—a rate of 2.4 percent. The one-in-four statistic would mean that every year, millions of young women graduate who have suffered the most terrifying assault, short of murder, that a woman can experience. Such a crime wave would require nothing less than a state of emergency—Take Back the Night rallies and 24-hour hotlines would hardly be adequate to counter this tsunami of sexual violence. Admissions policies letting in tens of thousands of vicious criminals would require a complete revision, perhaps banning boys entirely. The nation’s nearly 10 million female undergrads would need to take the most stringent safety precautions. Certainly, they would have to alter their sexual behavior radically to avoid falling prey to the rape epidemic.

None of this crisis response occurs, of course—because the crisis doesn’t exist. During the 1980s, feminist researchers committed to the rape-culture theory had discovered that asking women directly if they had been raped yielded disappointing results—very few women said that they had been. So Ms. commissioned University of Arizona public health professor Mary Koss to develop a different way of measuring the prevalence of rape. Rather than asking female students about rape per se, Koss asked them if they had experienced actions that she then classified as rape. Koss’s method produced the 25 percent rate, which Ms. then published.
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@9: Nice wall-o-text. But does the delightful Ms. MacDonald have any evidence to back that up? All I got from it is that she's using the low reporting rates of sex crimes to argue that sex crimes don't happen often.
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@10

Koss’s study had serious flaws. Her survey instrument was highly ambiguous, as University of California at Berkeley social-welfare professor Neil Gilbert has pointed out. But the most powerful refutation of Koss’s research came from her own subjects: 73 percent of the women whom she characterized as rape victims said that they hadn’t been raped. Further—though it is inconceivable that a raped woman would voluntarily have sex again with the fiend who attacked her—42 percent of Koss’s supposed victims had intercourse again with their alleged assailants.

All subsequent feminist rape studies have resulted in this discrepancy between the researchers’ conclusions and the subjects’ own views. A survey of sorority girls at the University of Virginia found that only 23 percent of the subjects whom the survey characterized as rape victims felt that they had been raped—a result that the university’s director of Sexual and Domestic Violence Services calls “discouraging.” Equally damning was a 2000 campus rape study conducted under the aegis of the Department of Justice. Sixty-five percent of what the feminist researchers called “completed rape” victims and three-quarters of “attempted rape” victims said that they did not think that their experiences were “serious enough to report.” The “victims” in the study, moreover, “generally did not state that their victimization resulted in physical or emotional injuries,” report the researchers.

Just as a reality check, consider an actual student-related rape: in 2006, Labrente Robinson and Jacoby Robinson broke into the Philadelphia home of a Temple University student and a Temple graduate, and anally, vaginally, and orally penetrated the women, including with a gun. The chance that the victims would not consider this event “serious enough to report,” or physically and emotionally injurious, is exactly nil. In short, believing in the campus rape epidemic depends on ignoring women’s own interpretations of their experiences—supposedly the most grievous sin in the feminist political code.
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Here in Puerto Vallarta the penalty for possession of pot is 2 years.

Mexican prisons feature cells with square footage that only an apodment dweller would covet. The state does not pay for food...the prisoners' family must pay. Hardship for everyone and sometimes the families forget about the prisoner.

Here there is more work than people to fill the jobs, although the pay is small. People work two or three jobs, even children have jobs, but there are strict labor laws for how long they can work (two hours a day).

They are happy. There is no talk of revolution...only of retail.
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¿Hablas español, Bailo? ¿Cómo sabes que la gente es feliz?

Seems to me you see Mexico like it's a Currier & Ives print.
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@12 - You're in PV, and you're still keeping up with and posting on Slog??? You really do lead a miserable existence. Go lie on the beach.
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I've used microwaves for far more than reheating stuff and I still think they suck.

Microwaves are one of the worst inventions I can think of (along with car alarms). They're good for cooking bacon. Nothing else.
Oh wait, they're also good at heating dishes to volcanic temperatures while overcooking half the food inside the container and leaving the other half cold or frozen. Other than that, worthless.
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Urg, you're one of my favorites, but I'm a little concerned about you lately. Are you getting enough full-spectrum light? (I know I'm not.)
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A couple of years in Colorado will do that. He's already starting to sound like me.
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@15
Boiling water

Boiling my coffee

Cooking microwave-intended foods

Reheating other food where speed is more important than quality, like cheap pizza

Staging things while all other kitchen spaces are occupied

I would never use it to cook bacon

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@ 15 - microwave are a one trick pony. You gotta know how to work with it. Like a camera lens with a fixed f-stop.

You want a stick of soft butter? But only have cold hard stuff in the fridge? Put a large glass of water in the microwave with the butter. The stick of butter will soften evenly.
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The rape graph is sad indeed. It would appear to show that for every person convicted of rape, two are falsely accused. Oh, but wait! To be accused of rape is to be guilty of rape, right "progressives?"
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@rob!,
Definitely getting enough sun... Colorado gets an overwhelming abundance of it.

@18,19,
I keep my butter at room temp so rarely a need to soften it (I think a lot of stuff that is labeled as 'needing refrigeration' doesn't really need it)

Boiling water? Can be done just as quickly on the stove.
Boiling coffee... ugh.

Fast cooking? Sure, if you don't care what your food tastes or feels like, then microwaves are great. I just think they do a terrible job at the one thing they were designed to do.

Also, you should give the bacon thing a try. I despise microwaves and was astounded by how good they cook bacon. I would almost say the microwave does a better job of it than a cast-iron skillet. Almost.
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What?!

Nothing about the latest statistics from BabyMurder,Inc. (aka Planned Parenthood...)
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@7 It's actually not enough to just say "debunked!" and then disappear, like a guy who just performed "business time."

There's a lot of good information in that article, and it's always good to hone the public's skills in understanding statistics. The author brings some nuance to the originally stated graphic, some deeper understanding, but the overall conclusion is quite similar. Here's the money quote --

According to the document, 2-8 percent of reported rapes are false, but the number that are false accusations is smaller. Women who make false reports want sympathy, and as victims of real rapes can tell you, accusing a real man usually gets you very little.

As I said above, the Enliven Project has the best intentions and they're on the right path. It is true that most rapes go unreported, that the public believes false accusations are exponentially more common than they actually are, and that a man's chances of being falsely accused of rape are incredibly small. All these things are important to convey, and an infographic is a great way to do it. Just fix the graphic, and the public will learn a lot.


(and yes, I know how to close the fucking formatting tags)
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@15 - microwaves are amazing for quickly steaming spinach or other veggies. Try it sometime, just stack a huge bowl of spinach in there for 30 seconds, stir, and another 30 seconds. Great for cooking breakfast omelettes or producing sauteed spinach for dinner.

Also work great for melting chocolate, heating things of moderate size and thickness, etc. The important thing is size of the object to be heated and volume compared to surface area. Bacon, meat patties, leafy veggies, cheese, chocolate - microwave does great.
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Bailo isn't in Puerto Vallarta. He's in his smelly little rat-hole in Kent.

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