This is a follow-up to the earlier post on whether or not gay men are more promiscuous than heterosexual men. I just read the transcript of Ann Coulter’s comments at Kaus:

Mr. BEINART: It’s called bigotry, Ann. What part of bigotry don’t you understand?

Ms. COULTER: Are you claiming that gays are generally not more promiscuous? Is that what you’re claiming? Are both of you maintaining that gays are not–some segment of gays are not more promiscuous than heterosexuals? Is that the big point here?

KUDLOW: I…

Mr. BEINART: I’m saying that I don’t know that there’s any empirical evidence whatsoever here.

Ms. COULTER: No. I’m asking Larry here.

Mr. BEINART: And it’s a–it’s a–it’s a bigoted stereotype that you are fomenting.

Ms. COULTER: You don’t know any evidence that gays are more promiscuous than heterosexuals?

Mr. BEINART: Where’s your–where’s your evidence, Ann?

Ms. COULTER: Where have you been?

Mr. BEINART: Where’s your evidence?

Ms. COULTER: It’s a fact.

Mr. BEINART: Give me the evidence. Cite chapter and verse. You have no evidence whatsoever.

Ms. COULTER: I just cited the bathhouses. We don’t have heterosexual bathhouses. It’s well known.

Can anyone tell me what modifier is missing throughout this exchange (in which, while I’m not a big Coulter fan, and generally like Beinart, he comes off as an ignorant ass)? Hint, this isn’t strictly about homosexual versus straight.

Oh, and for extra bonus points, is it a societal given that “gay” applies only to males, and not to homosexual females (i.e., lesbians)?

This is a follow-up to the earlier post on whether or not gay men are more promiscuous than heterosexual men. I just read the transcript of Ann Coulter’s comments at Kaus:

Mr. BEINART: It’s called bigotry, Ann. What part of bigotry don’t you understand?

Ms. COULTER: Are you claiming that gays are generally not more promiscuous? Is that what you’re claiming? Are both of you maintaining that gays are not–some segment of gays are not more promiscuous than heterosexuals? Is that the big point here?

KUDLOW: I…

Mr. BEINART: I’m saying that I don’t know that there’s any empirical evidence whatsoever here.

Ms. COULTER: No. I’m asking Larry here.

Mr. BEINART: And it’s a–it’s a–it’s a bigoted stereotype that you are fomenting.

Ms. COULTER: You don’t know any evidence that gays are more promiscuous than heterosexuals?

Mr. BEINART: Where’s your–where’s your evidence, Ann?

Ms. COULTER: Where have you been?

Mr. BEINART: Where’s your evidence?

Ms. COULTER: It’s a fact.

Mr. BEINART: Give me the evidence. Cite chapter and verse. You have no evidence whatsoever.

Ms. COULTER: I just cited the bathhouses. We don’t have heterosexual bathhouses. It’s well known.

Can anyone tell me what modifier is missing throughout this exchange (in which, while I’m not a big Coulter fan, and generally like Beinart, he comes off as an ignorant ass)? Hint, this isn’t strictly about homosexual versus straight.

Oh, and for extra bonus points, is it a societal given that “gay” applies only to males, and not to homosexual females (i.e., lesbians)?

This is a follow-up to the earlier post on whether or not gay men are more promiscuous than heterosexual men. I just read the transcript of Ann Coulter’s comments at Kaus:

Mr. BEINART: It’s called bigotry, Ann. What part of bigotry don’t you understand?

Ms. COULTER: Are you claiming that gays are generally not more promiscuous? Is that what you’re claiming? Are both of you maintaining that gays are not–some segment of gays are not more promiscuous than heterosexuals? Is that the big point here?

KUDLOW: I…

Mr. BEINART: I’m saying that I don’t know that there’s any empirical evidence whatsoever here.

Ms. COULTER: No. I’m asking Larry here.

Mr. BEINART: And it’s a–it’s a–it’s a bigoted stereotype that you are fomenting.

Ms. COULTER: You don’t know any evidence that gays are more promiscuous than heterosexuals?

Mr. BEINART: Where’s your–where’s your evidence, Ann?

Ms. COULTER: Where have you been?

Mr. BEINART: Where’s your evidence?

Ms. COULTER: It’s a fact.

Mr. BEINART: Give me the evidence. Cite chapter and verse. You have no evidence whatsoever.

Ms. COULTER: I just cited the bathhouses. We don’t have heterosexual bathhouses. It’s well known.

Can anyone tell me what modifier is missing throughout this exchange (in which, while I’m not a big Coulter fan, and generally like Beinart, he comes off as an ignorant ass)? Hint, this isn’t strictly about homosexual versus straight.

Oh, and for extra bonus points, is it a societal given that “gay” applies only to males, and not to homosexual females (i.e., lesbians)?

Ann Althouse (who’s guest blogging over at Instapundit while Glenn does vital research on diving equipment in the Caymans) asks if it’s bigoted to say that homosexual men are more promiscuous than heterosexual men.

Well, of course it’s not (despite the fact that Ann Coulter said it). It’s an obvious fact. But it’s not because homosexual men are hornier than heterosexual men–it’s because their partners are both much more willing and eager to put out, and to put up with promiscuity. Women serve as a governor on the libidinous urges of men. When men do it with men, there’s nothing to damp the activity level.

Same as the old metaphysic. John Derbyshire has a lengthy critique of George Gilder’s latest tilt at the evolutionary windmill:

Scientists discover things. That

They’re better designed for it.

Boy, am I going to catch heat for this.

Some thoughts.

At not only how different the state Doppler radar is from the local one, but at how little rain one can get from a “heavy shower’ on the local Doppler. I filled the pool this morning in the hopes that one of the many “thunderstorms” predicted for today would actually hit us. We watched all weekend as they approached southeast Palm Beach County, and would either stall, or fizzle out, just before they reached us. We really need the rain here. And thunderstorms are one of the three things that I like about south Florida, relative to south coastal California.

Still, I’m glad that we have much better weather forecasting and sensing than we did as a kid growing up in southeast Michigan, when the best they could do is tell you that they had “tornado watches” and “warnings” and it was based on a WAG as to where they were going to go.

Tim Carney takes on the ad hominem fallacy of attacking policy papers based on the funding sources of the institute that generated them.

Polar bears are eating each other:

“During 24 years of research on polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea region of northern Alaska and 34 years in northwestern Canada, we have not seen other incidents of polar bears stalking, killing, and eating other polar bears,” the scientists said.

Environmentalists contend shrinking polar ice due to global warming may lead to the disappearance of polar bears before the end of the century.

It’s George Bush’s fault of course. If only we’d signed on to Kyoto.

Actually, while it helps emphasize the surprise of the researchers, the fact that they haven’t seen it in such a short period of time tells us nothing about how common it is historically. And in any event, the American Geophysical Union says that we can’t definitively blame it on SUVs.

Sorry, Al.