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The "And You Thought Yesterday Was Bad" Edition
- After last night's fellatio-esque interview of John McCain, reporters ask Jon Stewart if he's a real journalist and if he should've tried harder to ask a real question. No, and yes. [Comedy Central, Time, Rolling Stone]
- No one really cares, though, because Hillary might not actually stay in the race until August. [NY Times]
- And there is one economist who agrees with her gas tax plan, but only because this example of blatant electoral pandering is the method of blatant electoral pandering likely to do the least harm of all the harmful ways to blatantly pander to the electorate. [NY Times]
- Oh, and some New York Congressman got his mistress pregnant three years ago and has a secret love child and is a drunk driver. Even married Republicans lose when it comes to abstinence-only education. [NY Times]
We've Only Come So Far, Baby
According to a forthcoming study from Washington & Lee University School of Law Prof. Robin Fretwell Wilson, women with MBAs, MDs and JDs are much more likely to get divorced than men with the same graduate degrees. Fretwell Wilson tells the Wall Street Journal: "It's like the Virginia Slims ad — we've come so far — but, man, we haven't come so far...women can't have it all because there is a social stigma to having or being a stay-at-home spouse." Women with MBAs have divorce rates that are higher than women with only bachelor degrees, while women with MDs and JDs have lower divorce rates than women who are merely college educated. Female doctors and lawyers, however, are still more likely to get divorced than men who are doctors and lawyers, Fretwell Wilson's study shows. Wilson's advice to high achieving women: they "should be targeting particularly loving and supportive men." [WSJ]
