The Post-Partisan Emporium

Not the fictional End of Us, either. The end of Homo Sapiens Sapiens. ELIZABETH NICKSON NOV 5, 2023   Jordan Peterson’s face morphed through a series of changes as he realized that nine out of ten women who don’t have children, wanted them. Ready to blame the culture of narcissism, he stalled confused, wrestling his face to neutral.  I knew that fact from experience.  For the many women I know who don’t have children, it is an abiding sorrow. From country to country, class to class, race to race, the sorrow is coruscating and it is ignored or diminished. Only one in ten women actually don’t want children. One in ten is infertile, but the rest who don’t have children and that is one-third of us and counting, wanted them. By the time they are in their 40’s and incapable, badly. Steven F Shaw searches for answers in   Birth Gap , his masterwork documentary, the first part of which you can watch   here . The most obvious is that they waited too long, thinking it was possible, their ‘career

Totally worth it! As House Democrats were set to hand power over to the Republicans following their midterm loss,   they slipped in a provision into the House's internal rules   under the guise of aiding their less affluent members;   a $34,000 allowance   to ostensibly help with living expenses in Washington D.C. A deep dive into the records by the   Washington Free Beacon   reveals that o ver 200 lawmakers, including the vociferous Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), have dipped into this taxpayer-funded pot,   a sumptuous feast on the nation's dime. Ocasio-Cortez, who has previously lamented the costliness of D.C. living on a Congressperson's salary,   now enjoys taxpayer support for accommodations in a luxury building   replete with amenities that seem more Silicon Valley than Capitol Hill. Bipartisan handout So far, 113 Democrats and 104 Republicans, including millionaire members like Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) and House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA), have parta