Tuesday roundup

More extreme foreclosure company BS.

I take this point on privilege blindness, but is it okay for people who started out poor, like these Mexican-American winemakers, to say that if you work hard, you'll succeed?

Timely to yesterday's roundup, someone used "strident" on a guy.

Dudes continue to look more kindly upon sexting than do ladies. That article needed a more clear separation of sexting between halves of a couple and random sexting, which is also--or is at least perilously close to, depending on the circumstances--harassment.

No one's really certain of the moon's origin story.

Sometimes "weaker" arguments can be more persuasive, at least in a limited context. That does explain the anti-vegetarian arguments in the article (and other anti-vegetarian arguments).

By now I'm sure you've heard that there's a definitive study debunking the sacred link between breakfast and weight management. Truth is--as the article states--studies saying as much have been coming out for years. The most interesting part of that article is how it takes researchers (but not the journalists who oversimplify their results) to task.  See it also as an example of how social-science concepts like "confirmation bias" can inform "hard" sciences (in this case, medical or nutritional science).