You gotta be kiddin’ me!
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“I can’t pick out a nail polish now without a pendulum!”
Call me old-fashioned, but I think I can skip a $1500 shamanic closet cleanse. I’ll stick with the milk crate I toss my gently-(ab)used and out-of-date clothes into. I’m so square. Tip from Ed Driscoll, trying to make sense in a world gone mad, at the Instapundit. Read more
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The Fate of the “Fountain”
Richard Bledsoe isn’t impressed with Conceptual Art A certain segment of the glitterati like to flaunt their ability to see shit as sophisticated art as a badge of honor, for some reason. and tells a delightful story about its early critics (“It broke!”). I have to agree, and now I’m off to learn more about Read more
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I guess it depends on who’s asking…
If I asked this question of any of my students, I’d be tagged as a stone-cold racist. But the US Census Bureau is going to ask each an every one of us. Tip from newgeography, where they have the full skinny. Read more
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Chorizo, seriously?
I see that Chipotle Grill has chosen Nation Taco Day* to announce an exciting “new” addition to their menu–chorizo. Like everyone south of the Riviere Rouge hasn’t been eating chorizo and egg breakfast tacos since the Eisenhower Lincoln Administration. Still, what can you expect from America’s innovator in digestive surprises, when they have a suppository** Read more
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Calculus as a Microagression
Yesterday I was cautioned by the recounting of an event that occurred in our College of Business. It seems that a lecturer was explaining a concept that required either averaging or the area under a curve, and resorted to writing an integral on the board, by way of illustration. This was NOT a demonstration of Read more
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Are you a turtle?* Is this a fluke?
Just when you think science can’t get any more weird, we get something like this A new species of blood fluke was found infecting the lungs of turtles in Malaysia. This parasitic flatworm has been dubbed Baracktrema obamai, in honor of the President of the United States (who is the fifth cousin twice removed of Read more
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Man Invents Fire, Women and Minorities Hardest Hit
No, really. I suppose men standing around the barbecue burning meat and drinking beer is just another ritual of the Patriarchy. Mark Twain was hip to this sort of thinking over a century ago: In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That Read more
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The Old Emotional Support Animal Gag
In my more curmudgeonly moments, I complain that progressivism is turning us into a Nation of Grifters. None more egregious than these What a wonderful time it is for the scammer, the conniver, and the cheat: the underage drinkers who flash fake I.D.s, the able-bodied adults who drive cars with handicapped license plates, the parents Read more
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Holy Deconstruction, StatMan, I’m a Fascist!
Briggsy, the Statistician to the Stars, has unearthed a paper revealing that evidence-based medicine* is a fascist enterprise. …the evidence-based movement in the health sciences is outrageously exclusionary and dangerously normative with regards to scientific knowledge. As such, we assert that the evidence-based movement in health sciences constitutes a good example of microfascism at play Read more
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Citizens of the University, Arise!
This latest outbreak of passive-aggressive politically correct gender warfare is absolutely delicious. “Mr.” and “Ms.,” are out, and who knows what is in. While many of the commenting curmudgeons at Instapundit are suggesting replacement honorifics like “Comrade” or “Tovarich,” I think we should dig further back into revolutionary history and adopt the French Revolution’s “Citizen.” Read more
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