Women And Anger At Work

Data backing up the notion of a double standard:

"Psychological Science has just published an eye-opening study that found that women who express anger at work were thought of more negatively than men and were assumed to be ‘angry people’ or ‘out of control’. Male colleagues who did the same were typically viewed in a more positive light and were assumed to be upset by circumstances."

On Pfleger

A Chicagoan writes:

The man has taken a formerly Irish Catholic Parish that was dying and turned it into the most successful black parish in the archdiocese. Amazingly he has done it in a neighborhood that is not middle class and that has serious social problems. If he had taken a parish in a middle class black neighborhood and made it successful it would have been amazing enough, but he did it in what is best described as ghetto.

He is often wrong and is too quick to blame racism for many social ills, but at heart he is a conservative who preaches self reliance, personal responsibility, and helping your fellow man.

My favorite Pfleger anecdote involves the funeral for Coretta Scott King. He spoke. Jesse Jackson didn’t. Absolutely beautiful.

Here’s a video of an unedited O’Reilly Factor interview with Pfleger a few days ago. See for yourself.

Boomer Hacks Watch

Jack Shafer thinks boomer newspaper journalists getting buyouts is a good thing. On the boomer journalist front, my old boss and friend Mike Kinsley has an affectingly candid essay in the New Yorker about mortality, and his increasingly vivid sense of it. It hadn’t occurred to me to see life-span as a part of status anxiety, but now he puts it that way …

I also realized after reading it that it was one of the most thoroughly Godless pieces of journalism I’d read in a long time. It takes a real non-believer to confront death and not even consider eternity. I admire its stoicism, but I cannot really understand it.