[High Praise! to The Matt Walsh Blog]

This “wage gap” propaganda is so fallacious, so false, so absurdly contrived that I honestly mourn for the sorry mental state of those who subscribe to it. When you hear that women make “77 cents for every dollar men earn”, you are hearing a generally accurate statement. But there’s a few problems: That statistic doesn’t factor tenure, job title, hours worked, experience, skill level, industry, or difficulty. In other words, it’s an utterly meaningless statistic.

This oft-repeated figure takes into account ALL women and ALL men who work over 35 hours in ANY job. So a receptionist logging 38 hours a week is evenly compared to a coal miner working 70, for example. Men, generally, earn more than women because – and this is important – THEY CHOOSE DIFFERENT JOBS.

Men are more likely to work dangerous, physically demanding, high stress jobs. They’re more likely to work weekends and holidays. They’re more likely to be willing to relocate. They’re more likely to pursue jobs in higher paying fields. Note: I’m not saying that no woman has ever relocated or worked a dangerous job, I’m just relaying empirically provable, unquestionable statistical realities.

Wasn’t too sure on Kelso playing Steve Jobs, but he seems quite a lot less dumb after delivering this strangely conservative speech to moron teenagers:

Are “hard work” and “humility” conservative values? I guess nowadays they are.

So we’re gone like a whole week talking about a rodeo clown. The White House has reacted to it finally. Was it tell everybody to stop freaking out because who cares if an American president is ridiculed? No, that would only happen if we had a president who cherished the freedom of speech. Instead, the White House poured more fuel on the fire by condemning the act.

We don’t really have a president who cares for much for any part of the 1st Amendment, do we? He’s demonstrated time and again that he cares little for freedom of religion — at least it’s not as important as forcing people to pay for Sandra Fluke’s contraception. This rodeo clown incident shows standing up for freedom of speech isn’t a big priority and he’s always just seemed annoyed people are allowed to disagree with him. As for freedom of the press, he seems rather unconcerned about Eric Holder spying on reporters. And as for peaceable assembly, we’ve seen how his cronies go after the Tea Party.

Of course, the 2nd Amendment is also just a nuisance to him he marginally tolerates. He’s just not a big Bill of Right/freedom president. He’s a “I have these left-wing policies I want to force on you and I don’t care how it’s done and stop criticizing me” president. Or, as you might call it more succinctly, a really really crappy president.

That’s what we get for electing a community organizer, instead of someone who once held a real job, like a rodeo clown.