Just some links this morning:
Camille Paglia makes very sensible arguments for repealing the 21-year old drinking law.
New research on how to help autistic kids make friends.
We’re in the midst of a House of Cards marathon, so I’m a huge Robin Wright fan. She’s smart and gorgeous.
An article in Slate explain why working-class women should raise their children without a husband.
Confessions of a teacher-hater in TPM.
1.6 million Americans don’t have indoor plumbing.
Cool simulations that help us understand autistic sensory overload.
That Nevada rancher is scary.
Apt. 11d 
The plural of anecdote is not data, and the data don’t suggest that children raised by working class women without husbands do better than children raised by working class women with husbands.
Also, the plural of journalism is not knowledge.
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True that the the anecdote shouldn’t replace what we know of the data. But, the anecdote does illustrate an area for follow up research. In Lily’s anecdote, the comparison point is not that she would not be better off married to a supportive, employed man, but that the men she has available to her would not add to the well-being of her family (or so she thinks).
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The confessions of a teacher hater was weird. What did his mugging, and resulting PTSD (not that he uses the word, but that’s what it sounds like) have to do with anything? I mean, I sympathize, but I didn’t follow the connection.
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Here’s a better link than the one in Slate. I think it could fairly be stated as a sociological proposition that no one on the Crooked Timber blogroll would ever link to this article.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303603904579493612156024266?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303603904579493612156024266.html
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