Since the next tow likely judges to drop out are Ginsburg and Stevens, we can finally get the all Harvard/Yale court and bump the number of catholics to 8.

PS do we really need another catholic on the supreme court?

We need diversity on the SC and nothing screams diversity for the Court like a Catholic from Harvard/Yale law school that spent most of their career on the federal appeals court. There is only 5 other members already with that exact same profile. The key to diversity is having the sixth catholic, the seventh Harvard/Yale grad, and 9th appeals court judge.

Douthat is writing in reference to a paper by economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, called "The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness," in which they examine why, in Douthat's words, "male happiness has inched up, and female happiness has dropped," even as American women become steadily "wealthier, healthier and better educated than they were 30 years ago," as well as freer to control their own reproduction, leave abusive marriages and sue sexist employers.

I thought I wrote long sentences but this was over 70 words, as someone already asked where is the editor? Also, why the scare quotes? Douthat summed up the study pretty well given the space constraint, I guess he should have spent 750 words describing what could be done in 18.

The financial and emotional stresses of single motherhood are surely a reality for many women raising families on their own. But Douthat doesn't take into account those who are relieved not to be stuck in miserable or abusive marriages, or those who are not so much "stuck raising kids alone" as they are freer than ever before to make reproductive, social, and financial choices that enable them to have families even if they have not entered, or have not wanted to enter, legal heterosexual unions before their childbearing years are over.

Yeah this is a stupid place to look. Kids without fathers are more likely to drop out of school, become teenage parents, use drugs, abuse alcohol, have behavior issues, join gangs, commit crimes and well basically everything you want to avoid kids from doing. I am sure that none of this contributes to the unhappiness of the mother.

Just for your information. Most people are not "freelancers" living in Brooklyn or San Fransisco on the parents dime and have the "choice" to be single parents by choice. For most people it takes two paychecks to raise kids or to put it another way Rosanne is closer to reality than Friends and Sex in the City.

Putting aside the bizarre notion that those in East Hampton and East L.A. would necessarily have to be unhappy for the same reasons in order for the happiness gap to make any sense, Douthat clearly doesn't conceive of single motherhood as anything other than an affliction of poor and minority populations, nor does it appear to occur to him that perhaps the working-class Hispanic woman from East L.A. might experience unhappiness for reasons not directly tied to her reproductive life.

Wow, another sentence that is close to or over 90 words! Why is it a bizarre notion to link the unhappiness of women if it is across the board? I know they teach that science is evil in Wymens studies but when you get data like this you try to see what is similar and different. That does not mean that it will be right but it will give you an idea where to look.

It's certainly possible," concedes Douthat -- but nah, that can't be it either, because "as Wolfers and Stevenson point out, recent surveys actually show similar workload patterns for men and women over all." Except for the recent studies that say that, in fact, men still do less childcare and far less housework than their wives, even when both partners are employed full time outside the home.

Damn you are a dishonest hack. Love how you shift the goalpost. You know its kind of hard to do the same amount of child rearing and housework when YOU ARE FUCKING PAYING THE BILLS AND ACTUALLY WORKING. From your link, Men work 42.6 hours a week while women work 36 hours a week.

Damn I have to give up here as I thought I was close to done with reading but I was barely a third of the way through. Again all I can ask is what happened to Salon? This used to be the site with great investigative reporting and of course Kind Kaufman. Now not so much of either and worse Rebecca Traister seems to be the "star" of the place.

the problem is that women are reduced to their body parts in society by regardless of how smart or articulate they may be.

What a bunch of victimization bullshit. These women if they do this do this on there own. What this story is about is a Judge that is tired of the unprofessional dress and wants women that do dress like this to instead dress like a damn professional in the court room. It is women choosing to use there body as an advantage and someone else telling them to win on the merits.

the problem is that women are reduced to their body parts in society by regardless of how smart or articulate they may be.

What a bunch of victimization bullshit. These women if they do this do this on there own. What this story is about is a Judge that is tired of the unprofessional dress and wants women that do dress like this to instead dress like a damn professional in the court room. It is women choosing to use there body as an advantage and someone else telling them to win on the merits.

WHEN IS MARILY MONROE'S BODY GOING TO COME BACK INTO STYLE??

Scarlett Johansson and Beyonce both have basically the same measurements as Monroe and both are the two biggest cover girls in the US. So can this bullshit meme go away finally.