Weekly tidbits #1: Periodically I will provide some interesting tidbits, some of which, I suppose, may generate a musing at some point.
1. 9 out of 10 prison inmates are men
2. Men are more likely to be homeless by a ratio of 3/1
3. Men are 10 times morel likely to commit murder than women
4. Men are more likely to be found at the low end of I.Q. scores
5. Men are more likely to be mentally retarded
6. Men are less likely to take care of aging parents than females.
7. Men outscore women on measures of cruelty
8. Men outscore women on measures of closed-mindedness
9. Men outscore women on measures of hostility
10. Men outscore women on measures of narcissism
11. Men outscore women on measures of self-indulgence
12. Men die earlier than women by an average of 5 years
Donald Trump on His Fellow Republicans Running For President (and a few others)
Ted Cruz: “ A little bit of a maniac”. “Look, I don’t think he’s qualified to be president, because I don’t think he has the right temperament. I don’t think he’s got the right judgment.” “He’ll never get anything done, and that’s the problem with Ted.”
Carly Florin: “Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?"
John McCain: “He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”
Jeb Bush: “Bush has no money. He’s meeting today with Mommy and Daddy, and they’re working on his campaign. He’s a guy [who] wants to run our country and he can’t even run his own campaign.” “"How can I be tied with Jeb Bush?" Trump said at a rally at the Phoenix, Arizona convention center. "He's terrible. He's weak on immigration. Sanctuary cities. Did you know that he had five of them in Florida when he was governor?"
Marco Rubio: Marco Rubio will not win. Weak on illegal immigration, strong on amnesty and has the appearance to killers of the world as a "lightweight".
Rand Paul: "I never attacked him on his look and believe me, there is plenty of subject matter right there. That I can tell you."
Over the past decade the suicide rate among adolescents and young adults in the U. S. was twice as high in rural areas compared to urban centers. This is puzzling.
The suicide rate for boys and young men was 4X higher than for young females.
In Afghanistan for several years more soldiers died from suicide than in combat. Wow.
1 in 4 young people 18-29 no longer belong to a particular religion.
Wouldn’t it be nice if Bernie Sanders became President and then pushed for a law barring the spending of any public money for Professional League stadiums and then made it against the law for owners to move franchises from one city to another? No team ever moved because the owner was losing money, only moved because they could make more money elsewhere or some other place would build them a better stadium. How did we ever come to let professional sports be owned by wealthy owners as a personal play toy, exempt from any safe guards which protect the public, players, or cities from being exploited? How could we allow contract talks be between the wealthy owners and wealthy players (except for the bottom half) without the cities and the fans being represented at the bargaining table? How did we come to let the owners pick the Commissioner and then let a Commissioner go around saying he is there to protect the interests of the fans, the players, the owners, and the cities? Seems like a huge dose of collective stupidity.
