An anti-Rant - A Rave

I saw Lyle Lovett last night in Toronto. He played with his large band and it was amazing. The large band had musicians who could take your breath away and the performance was incredibly tight. He played for more than 2.5 hours straight. A++++++ rating.

There is still nothing like the Economist for a broad range of news and exceptional writing. This quote from this week's issue. The editorial was on the differences between men and women. It started with the context of the controversy around former Harvard President Larry Summers assertion that men are generally better at math than women. "But the long tail of mathematical genius does tend to be male, along with higher rates of idiocy and masturbation." Brilliant tongue in cheek writing and a sharp jab at political correctness. They go on to say:

"These differences may or may not be innate, but the arguement anyway misses the point. The interesting question is not whether men are more likely to be weirdly good at maths than women are, but whether the things that men are good at are more or less useful than the things that women are good at. The answer, in the rich world at least, is no."

Anyone who wants to know what's going on in the world all over should read the Economist.