Monday roundup: assholes & idiots edition

The Times is late to the Israelis-and-Palestinians-no-longer-see-each-other-as-human party; see this FP piece.

We've heard about good guys with guns and bad guys with guns, but what do you do about idiots with guns? Like this idiot who killed a small girl through his ceiling when he used a loaded rifle as a crutch? What about this idiot who killed this new dad, just back from the hospital with his newborn? Really--I'd like to know--what's the gun-rights position on idiots with guns?

Onto the assholes: Rollin' coal and their liberal equivalent, NPR. Notwithstanding the odd good story, like this one on what Americans stress about, NPR has a lot in common with Rollin-coalers: they needlessly hate on people who are just doing what they believe is right. Listen to the last few episodes of "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" and count the slams on vegans. Someone ought to tell NPR that they may as well shove their Priuses up their haughty asses, because they're a drop in the bucket in terms of reducing environmental impact, compared to cutting back on animal products.

I'm going to tackle this idiocy by acknowledging some valid points:
(1) STEM is cool but it's not Jesus; the humanities matter, too.
(2) I, myself, was drawn to the humanities, things with story-lines, etc.

But that has nothing to do with my gender. I'm drawn to both facts and people/stories, etc. Focusing on either, serves different purposes. I don't need to say this, because Neil DeGrasse Tyson recently said it more eloquently, but before we start talking about how women (or girls) are not naturally drawn to science, let's deal with the social barriers to women and girls in science, or the things that actively drive them out, like dude-bro Feynman worship.