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Some people have a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality in freedom.--de Tocqueville

Mom has been really busy at work.

Mexico City is being criticized for under-reporting crimes. More than 24,000 of 214,000 reviewed files on criminal cases were said to be doctored. Rapes in the prior year were actually double the number reported by former mayor Miguel Angel Mancera's administration. Mancera had no comment. Data shows that murders in Mexico's capital city were up 36% from January to May versus the year prior. Godoy says homicides will formally now show a rise of about 12%. 

The rich are interested in space. Is it just tourism? Some say it is an eagerness to set up manufacturing centers beyond the reach of government.

Public and private space enterprises are aiming to extract water from the Moon, which they hope to turn into rocket fuel to fly missions farther into our solar system. However, it's not yet clear how much water is available on or below the lunar surface. NASA and others can extract water from the Moon, it would change exploration as we know it. Heavy rocket fuel would no longer have to be launched from Earth. Instead, resources from the Moon would effectively supply a stopover where spacecraft could fuel up for farther afield missions. That lunar water could be broken apart into oxygen and hydrogen, two elements needed for rocket fuel today. The fuel could then be transported to a depot in orbit that's easily accessible for ships that need to fill up before flying into deeper space. The craters in the poles are thought to be potentially rich in ice — 100 million to 1 billion metric tons, according to some estimates — because they are permanently in shadow. But scientists still don't know much about the ice that might be there. NASA plans to find out how much ice is on the Moon in the coming years, with new missions like the Lunar Flashlight spacecraft expected to launch in 2020.

Analysis of the Obama administration Climate Action Plan, the Paris agreement for international reductions in GHG emissions, and the Green New Deal -- using the EPA climate model--indicates that the respective temperature effects in 2100 would be 0.015° C, 0.17° C, and 0.08-0.17° C, at costs ranging from 1% to 25% of GDP annually. 

What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to shape it to their own will. The market gives people what the people want instead of what other people think they ought to want. At the bottom of many criticisms of the market economy is really a lack of belief in freedom itself.--Freidman

According to the state Department of Education, 75% of black California boys cannot meet state reading standards. In 2016, in 13 of Baltimore’s 39 high schools, not a single student scored proficient on the state’s mathematics exam. In six other high schools, only 1% tested proficient in math.

Researchers polled over 500 women in September 2016 and again in September 2018. These women said harassment, like unwanted sexual attention, staring, “leering and ogling,” and fondling, dropped in those two years. One quarter of women reported unwanted sexual attention in 2018, compared to 66% in 2016. Sexual coercion dropped from 25% to 16%.

But....sexism and sexist remarks, which the study authors defined as “gender harassment,” rose over those two years. The percentage of women experiencing gender harassment rose from 76% to 93%. 

As an example of sexism in the workplace, Stefanie Johnson, one of the authors on the study and a professor at the Leeds School of Business, pointed to men not wanting to mentor women and not wanting to be alone with women at work. Over half — 60% — of male managers say they are uncomfortable with being alone around women at work. This is a prominent example of sexism.

Now, wait a minute.....

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