Santino has started a really funny new website, Everything’s a Problem. It’s a Stuff White People Like for the Privilege Age. Sample awesome:

In my previous post, I noted that Tina Fey’s new series, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, is problematic. But we should also note that the Daily Beast story highlighting the problematic nature of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is itself extremely problematic.

Look at that byline. “Gabe Bergado.” Wow, GABE. Mansplain much?

Perhaps he needs to check his privilege for a moment and consider the struggles faced by women in the entertainment community. This is, after all, an industry in which men outnumber women more than three to one in the writer’s room. It strikes me as extremely problematic that this man—who, I’m guessing, is far less experienced when it comes to creating TV shows—feels comfortable sitting there and lecturing this silly woman about how to do her job in a better fashion.

Problematic. But not surprising.

I give the transgression of a man telling a woman show runner how to run her show two problematics.

To keep track of today’s Pyramid of Grievances, you need a scorecard. This is it.

It’s not totally clear to me whether the Apple Watch will be a the Newton, the iPad, or something in between. But it does seem to be a superfluous-enough toy that it will be considered more fashion than tech in the hierarchy of consumer impulses.

Think of it this way: Technology consumers now have a list of devices and peripherals they need/want. In order of importance they are (1) Smartphone; (2) Laptop/desktop computer; (3) Tablet. The Apple Watch is going to sit in the 4-hole for just about everyone, which means that the potential audience for it is already just a smaller-slice of the general computing public: It’s only an option for people who want (and can afford) a fourth device and already use an iPhone.

That creates all sorts of ripple effects. For instance, how intensive will app development be if the number of Apple Watches out in the wild is relatively small? (Witness how app development for the iPad has stalled out as the tablet market hit the wall.)

And what will this mean for the product refresh cycle? Apple seems to have been surprised by the fact that people don’t generally rush out to replace their iPads every two years, even though they keep iterating the device on a yearly basis. Will Apple push out new Watches every twelve months or so? Or will they let it sit in the market? (My guess is that they’ll do what they did with Apple TV: Treat this launch model as a beta and introduce a tweaked version that fixes its shortcomings in 18 months or so. And then let that sit for a good long while.)

And by the by, those shortcomings are already obvious even before anyone has the watch in the field. 18 hour-battery life? For lots of people, that means it won’t even make it from wake-up to bed-time.

Also: I had a discussion with some friends over whether or not the watch would be water-proof. I argued that it almost certainly wouldn’t be, because if it was, Apple would have been crowing about it. This is a company that tried using the idea of a “unibody” laptop housing as a selling point. Sure enough: The Apple Watch is only “water resistant.”

Two non-related items:

(1) It seems that the Washington Post has identified the London-accented ISIS executioner. They claim that he is “a Briton from a well-to-do family who grew up in West London and graduated from college with a degree in computer programming.”

But that seems rather far-fetched. Don’t we all know that ISIS militants are motivated by a lack of job opportunities?

That said, the Post story does lay the foundation for a radicalized-by-stop-and-frisk explanation. That would be awesome because it would prove, once and for all, that Islamophobia is the (other?) root cause for religiously-motivated beheadings.

(2) Andrew Stiles deserves a Pulitzer for stuff like this. Sample funny:

Hillary Clinton is running for president, but due to her advanced age, inability to think on her feet, and unquenchable lust for money, she would like to avoid having to actually campaign for as long as possible.

Anyway, after seeing the idea floated that Clinton would like to finish the nominating contest without participating in any candidate debates, it got me thinking: What if Clinton was able to make it through the primary season without giving any unpaid speeches!

Might not be as crazy as it sounds. I mean, these don’t have to be Goldman-Sachs-style paid speeches. But what if she turned every campaign event into a closed-door fundraiser where Democratic voters had to pony up, say a $25 cover to get in the door? (18 to party, 21 to drink!) No more “Come to the IHOP and meet the candidate garbage.” You want the good stuff with the next POTUS, you pay like everyone else.

Me over at TWS: There are some perfectly good reasons why Japan would be disinclined to fix its demographic problems with immigration.

Three posts in a month. Wow. That got out of hand quickly.

The reason blogging has been non-existant is that I’ve been tied up with another project. I’ll tell you all about it next week, I hope. It’s kind of fun.

Galley Reader K.T. sends along this video mashing up Frozen and smark complaining about Roman Reigns. I barely keep up with the WWE, but this is awesome.

Kay Hymowitz, for the win:

In her standup act, comedian Whitney Cummings scoffs at the claim that men like strong women. “Sorry, I’ve watched porn,” she says. “Men like Asian schoolgirls with duct tape on their mouths.”

She can do demographics, high-brow criticism, and this. Hymowitz is a national treasure.

Is McFarland USA the annual middling Disney feel-good sort-of-true sports flick? Yes.

Does it have Kevin Costner, who’s a better leading man in middle age than he was in his youth? Yes.

Is it the cross-country movie I’ve been waiting for my whole life? Oh yes. Yes it is.