September, 2007
Socialization: another feminist conspiracy theory
From the “Birth to 12 months” girls’ section at Toys R Us: The Little Princess Big Favor Pack. Includes pink tiara bag, Little Princess stickers, pink princess pen, glitter nail polish, birthday bubbles, marabou tiara, and daisy swirl lip gloss. Whenever the conversation turns to ev-psych, some chump or two (or twenty) shows up to [...]
OJ has a girlfriend?
That was what jumped out at me as I was reading about the OJ Memorabilia Quest this past weekend. Some report referred to his “girlfriend of 11 years,” with a picture of her and everything. Since I’d rather clean the men’s room at the local Exxon Quik Stop than keep abreast of goings-on in OJ [...]
Extreme misogyny at the American Psychological Association convention
This is from an invited address at the APA conference in August, delivered by Roy F. Baumeister, in which he explains that men rule the world because they are naturally more creative, adventurous, and intelligent than women: Hence religion, literature, art, science, technology, military action, trade and economic marketplaces, political organization, medicine — these all [...]
Feathered Dinosaurs
I saw this image over at Echidne’s and was instantly captivated. She’d lost the credit for the picture, so I hunted around a bit and found that it was taken by Hungarian nature photographer Bence Máté. The two grey herons were fighting over a fish (they both lost — the fish fell to the ice [...]
So that’s why all the morons think prostitution is an empowerfuling career choice
I keep as much distance between myself and popular culture as possible, so I’ve only just now discovered that for the past few years HBO has been running some utterly unrealistic “reality” show about a brothel in Nevada, a happy place where happy people do happy things, just because they’re so darn happy. According to [...]
Like lambs to the slaughter
Item: The media engages in a feeding frenzy over a young actress whose private nude photos were posted by some creep on the web. Everyone behaves as if the actress herself has done something horribly wrong, instead of noticing that the only person who’s done anything wrong is the creep who publicized her photos. After [...]
Gen. Petraeus and Baghdad Bob: Separated at birth
From Glenn Greenwald: From Monty Python: Sing it with me, Gen. Petraeus! Some things in life are bad, they can really make you mad Other things can make you swear and curse When you’re chewing on life’s gristle, don’t grumble — give a whistle And this’ll help things turn out for the best, and… Always [...]
The 9-11 Hijackers Redux
Originally posted on September 11, 2006. The ones who used 9-11 to hijack the country, that is. The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, were unspeakably vile. What is even more vile (and I use the phrase deliberately: more vile) is the way the thugs running our country have exploited those attacks to their own [...]
Adsense for Conceptual Artists
Now here’s a coincidence. It so happens that I’ve been kicking around the idea of taking on advertising again to cover the site costs, and just this morning I was complaining to the other spirits here in the Smoking Lounge about the problems with Google Adsense. Me: The problem with Adsense is that it goes [...]
A Catholic columnist answers the jail-time question
Matt Abbott in Catholic Online: That said, I do believe, in some cases, the abortion-seeking woman is indeed the perpetrator. She knows very well what she’s doing. She’s not coerced by anyone. Perhaps she’s even going against the wishes of her loved ones. This is the woman who should be treated as a criminal – [...]
