Brain: Now with Added Iron!

[elfs]

Bimbo-Proofing the Nursery

Oh, I so identify with this:

What I've come to realize is that there are really two people inside me: the Dude Self and the Dad Self. The Dude Self has an evolutionary mandate. Namely, to get his DNA into all available fertile females. This is how I explain the compulsion toward media sluts, who, after all, sow the fantasy that women exist only for the carnal pleasure of men.

But then there's the Dad Self. The Dad Self has to worry about the survival of his wife and offspring. It might be said that his genetic material is heavily mortgaged. He regards women differently, especially if he has a daughter. Now he must think about the kind of world in which he'd like her to grow up, and especially how he'd like other males to treat her, which is to say not as a sexual chew toy, but with kindness and respect.

(via Bookslut)

DIY DNA

When your son is so positive, so even-tempered, so handsome - so unlike you - there is only one thing to do, David Eddie writes: Grab a home paternity kit (via Sentient Developments)

Is Obama an Agnostic?

This falls under the So Freakin' What category. (via Hit and Run)

Controversy Over Teacher Leads to Student Harassment

A teacher at a Mount Vernon high school is under pressure because of his apparent evangelism of his students. Student factions pro- and contra- his argument have emerged, and harassment and even violence appears to have emerged.

Maryland Court Reject Sharia Argument

Right on! One state, one set of laws. A court in Maryland has told a Muslim man that he has to go through the same divorce process as everyone else. (via Dispatches from the Culture Wars)

Michigan Partnership Benefits Killed By Court

Ed Brayton brings us news that the "save the children" folks of Michigan have managed to deny health coverage extensions and benefits, even when corporations wish to extend them, to gay partners and, of course, their children. Brilliant, that.

WND: Wikipedia is Full of PORN!

WND: The Good News About Nuclear War

Not kidding, either: they really think that a nuclear war wouldn't be such a bad thing.

Comments

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

My father was in the British Civil Defence system (and ARP before that), and I don't see anything wildly wrong in that nuclear weapons article.

What made the 1960s different was the number of nuclear weapons likely to be used. Even, God help us, "tactical". I was living a couple of miles from a Thor IRBM site when the Cuban Missile Crisis was running.

Today's threat is vastly smaller, and the article is right in that there's a lot of simple things which could be done.

Simple question: what do you do if the local water and electricity supples fail?

That's where you could make a big difference to your chances if some idiot tried to use a nuke.

[solarbird]

Yeah; the core of the article isn't so much about nuclear war as nuclear terrorism, and how to minimise the effects thereof. The introductory paragraphs contain some prime crazy, but after that, it ... seems rather reasonable to say, "there's a lot we could do to make communities more resilient," which strikes me as a very good idea.

Too bad about the commentary in front, because underneath the nuttery there's a layer of coherent thought. (And yes, below that, no doubt, nougat.)

[gromm.livejournal.com]

especially how he'd like other males to treat her, which is to say not as a sexual chew toy, but with kindness and respect.

Can't we do both? :)

[rarkrarkrark.livejournal.com]

I'm not a WND fan, but I'm not seeing that they think that nuclear war would be such a bad thing. The "good news" is that most nuclear attacks are more survivable than people think. They aren't making that part up. In fact, that might be the first WND article I've ever basically agreed with. More people should be aware of what to do in a nuclear event, because that would increase the number of people who survive.

Stopped clock is right twice a day, too. :)

[rarkrarkrark.livejournal.com]

"but I'm not seeing that they think that nuclear war wouldn't be such a bad thing." Sorry.