Half Sigma

No body, no bloody clothes?

ABC News:

Despite some media reports today that Le's body was found in the building, FBI Special Agent Kim Mertz said, "I will categorically say a body has not been found. Items that could potentially be evidence have been seized. Nothing that can associated with Annie Le at this time."

So my original guess, that she walked outside to get lunch and was abducted by a NAM not associated with Yale, is still in play.

Body found inside Yale building

Daily News. Along with bloody clothing stuffed into the ceiling, so it was obviously a murder.

Now I think the most likely perpetrator is a NAM employee of Yale, such as a janitor or (ironically) a security guard.

Why was my last prediction wrong? Because I assumed that if her body was in the building where she worked, it would have been found by the time I wrote the last post. Seems like inept police work to me. Or maybe they weren't taking it seriously because they figured she was a "runaway bride." That scenario didn't seem likely to me. Yalies don't pull stunts like that.

The other possibility is that the murder is someone who knew her and was sexually obsessed, such as a creepy grad student or professor. But we are talking about Yalies, so I'm going with the janitor or security guard.

Annie Le prediction

Annie Le is the 4'11" 90-pound Vietnamese 24-year-old Yale student who disappeared five days before her wedding (to a Jewish white guy, see photo).

New Haven is a majority NAM city: 37.4% black, 21.4% Hispanic.

I predict that Annie is the victim of a crime committed by a NAM not associated with Yale.

Caster Semenya, more man than woman

Caster was previously blogged about.

Caster Semenya, the person who won a gold medal in the woman’s 800-meter world championship, has testes (producing testosterone), but no ovaries (the organ which makes eggs and estrogen) or womb. The MSM articles are calling Caster a “hermaphrodite,” but I say Caster is a man with undescended testes and no penis. I mean he has testosterone and sperm (in those testes), but no eggs or estrogen.

I hope that people who were complaining about how it’s not fair that “she” was being subject to these tests will apologize now that it turns out Caster is really a man.

Students not graduating from college in four years

The problem of college students who take too long to graduate, or never graduate at all, is a problem I’ve been aware of since I attended law school at ASU. There was no problem among the law students, but I learned that a huge percentage of the undergraduates at ASU were not graduating in four years.

David Leonhardt’s NY Times column on this subject (recommended by a commenter, thanks), is rather HBD-ignorant. Leonhardt talks about high schools not preparing students properly for college.

In reality, there’s a twofold problem, and not one I really blame on high schools. (1) Too many people are going to college, and at big not-too-selective state schools, too many of the students aren’t really college material, and it’s not because of bad high schools but because of bad genes. (2) The colleges themselves have low expectations of their students. The people running these colleges have stopped expecting their students to graduate—I guess they are happy to collect tuition money and state subsidies rather than rock the boat and tell students they need to shape up or ship out.

Students who attend college but never graduate have the worst of both worlds: they have the debt of college graduates but without the credential. It would be better for everyone (except for people hoping to become college professors) if colleges just flunked out freshman who can't keep up on a four-year track.

Anyone have any black friends in high school?

From the article See Baby Discriminate:

the odds of a white high-schooler in America having a best friend of another race is only 8 percent. Those odds barely improve for the second-best friend, or the third-best, or the fifth. For blacks, the odds aren't much better: 85 percent of black kids' best friends are also black.

I would say that one of my five best friends in high school was black. We used to play chess together all the time (before he became too good at the game, and then we drifted apart because he hung with the chess team). But somehow the experience didn’t turn me into the perfect liberal SWPL.

$99 per month college, not happening

A reader emailed me about online college for $99/mnoth.

This isn’t going to replace real colleges because the people in power went to real college, and they will always see the online college as something akin to the University of Phoenix, at best.

Only HBD-awareness can dent the power of Big Education, because under the HBD-denialist mode of thinking, going to Harvard makes you smarter than going to the University of Phoenix.

Women to be majority of workforce

Women today hold 49.83% of the nation’s jobs, and if trends continue, women are predicted to be the majority of the workforce by October or November.

The rapid change during the last year was caused by three times as many men than women losing their jobs during the recession. Women disproportionately work in recession-proof sectors of the economy, mostly education, government and healthcare.

Now that women are the nation's breadwinners, will the custom change so that women pay for dates instead of men?

Why do college costs rise? No answer here

A New York Times article has the intriguing headline, “Why College Costs Rise.” The problem is that the question isn’t answered! Instead, there’s an interview with Daniel Weiss, the president of Lafayette College, who makes some excuses and gives evasive and deceptive answers.

For example, when asked why professors only teach two and a half classes a semester (is that even ten teaching hours per semester?), he says they need time to do research in order to “revitalize their teaching.” Sounds bogus to me.

The real answer to this question is that colleges are run to benefit the people running the college, in other words the faculty. If each faculty member were to teach five classes per semester instead of two and a half, then half of them would lose their jobs! That would certainly be against their interest. Most of them like doing research more than they like teaching—their prestige in the professor community is based on their research and not on how well they teach students. And finally, one of the benefits of being a professor is that they don't have to work very hard, and they want to keep that benefit.

Weiss is also asked why there is such a big payroll for nonfaculty employees. He says something about career counseling. He conveniently mentions the very last service that any of the students would want cut. Probably, most of the nonfaculty positions are supporting the faculty research which doesn’t benefit the students.

Verdana and Ikea

I haven’t seen the new Ikea catalog which is causing the big fuss, but I agree that Verdana is a dumb choice for a catalog font. It was designed to be a screen font. What were they thinking?

Levi Johnston speaks!

Sneak peak at Vanity Fair article.

Not a normal family:

The Palin house was much different from what many people expect of a normal family, even before she was nominated for vice president. There wasn’t much parenting in that house. Sarah doesn’t cook, Todd doesn’t cook—the kids would do it all themselves: cook, clean, do the laundry, and get ready for school. Most of the time Bristol would help her youngest sister with her homework, and I’d barbecue chicken or steak on the grill.

Plan to hide Bristol pregnancy:

Sarah told me she had a great idea: we would keep it a secret—nobody would know that Bristol was pregnant. She told me that once Bristol had the baby she and Todd would adopt him. That way, she said, Bristol and I didn’t have to worry about anything. Sarah kept mentioning this plan. She was nagging—she wouldn’t give up. She would say, “So, are you gonna let me adopt him?” We both kept telling her we were definitely not going to let her adopt the baby. I think Sarah wanted to make Bristol look good, and she didn’t want people to know that her 17-year-old daughter was going to have a kid.

Makes you wonder if Sarah had previous experience covering up someone’s pregnancy? (Though Levi seems to think Trig is Sarah's baby, and says that he saw her growing bigger before she admitted to being pregnant.)

Sarah quit the governor job because she could make more money doing less work:

I had assumed she was going to go back to her job as governor, but a week or two after she got back she started talking about how nice it would be to quit and write a book or do a show and make “triple the money.” It was, to her, “not as hard.” She would blatantly say, “I want to just take this money and quit being governor.” She started to say it frequently, but she didn’t know how to do it.

Is that the kind of commitment to public service you’d want in a vice president one old-man-McCain heart attack away from being president? What a stupid choice McCain made.

Also in the interview, Johnston says that Sarah and Todd didn’t sleep together and talked about getting divorced.

She only pretended to be into hunting:

She says she goes hunting and lives off animal meat -- I've never seen it. I've never seen her touch a fishing pole. She had a gun in her bedroom and one day she asked me to show her how to shoot it. I asked her what kind of gun it was, and she said she didn't know, because it was in a box under her bed.

And she didn't read any newspapers:

Once in a blue moon, I'd see her reading a book, and I've never even seen her read a newspaper in my life. The Frontiersman and the Anchorage Daily News were always there in the morning, but the only one who looked through them was Todd.

Which explains why she couldn't answer the question in the Katie Couric interview!

HBD and game

Robert writes:

I would like to see more discussion of game on this blog - but from an HBD perspective, not from the purient roissyite perspective

What Roissy calls “beta behavior” evolved because it’s the most successful reproductive strategy in a civilized society. When pre-marital and extra-marital sex was very strongly discouraged by society, being able to talk a girl into bed didn’t mean spreading your genes as much as it meant being forced to marry her at the end of a shotgun (or crossbow or sword or whatever weapon was used back then), or even worse, killed by her angry relatives, put in jail for the crime of adultery, etc.

Modern society is now reverting to a more primitive form, and the beta behavior bred into humanity over many thousands of years will much more quickly be bred out. Lucofkily, this isn't happening in Japan. The Japanese may have a low birthrate, but only 2% births are to unmarried mothers (see here). Japan will be the last bastion of civilization.

Comment moderation

I turn it off for a day, and an unnecessary racial slur word commonly used at Stormfront appears in several posts. Unfortunately, a failed experiment.