Brain: It's A Dry Heat!

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Republicans Vote Against Moms; No Word Yet on Puppies, Kittens

Not only is the Onion prescient, but now legitimate news outlets have started to use their style! (via Hilzoy)

The Black Oven: Pastry Cooking for Goth Children.

Cake, cookie, and confection recipies for the Goth Child.

Disturbingly effective anti-genital mutilation advertisements

Frighteningly enough, this is (probably) Safe For Work (via Boing Boing). The Boing Boing article includes links to other ads by the same people, some of which are most definitely Not Safe For Work.

Past investment performance is no indicator of future success.

You hear that all the time from investment houses, but y'know what? The real reason that past performance is no indicator of future success is because few investors actually track past performance. They have no idea what they did, why they made the choices they made, how to evaluate their success. Every investment choice is made in a vacuum. Even more than civilization, market capitalism is not intrinsic to our evolutionary heritage, and succeeding at it requires skills that are chosen by emotion, but do not engage those emotions while making choices. (via Robert Hanson)

"My daughter deserved to die for falling in love."

After Saddam, this is the civilization we're propping up: a man is honored by his friends and relatives for stomping his own daughter to death. Her crime wan unconsummated puppy love with a Westerner.

WND: Classroom exercise to introduce transgender kid upsets some parents.

I thought I'd left the transgender issue behind for a while, but no, World Net Daily brings out the crazy with a screed about how a classroom exercise to help the kids understand a GID child in their midst has parents absolutely freaking out. "Why is the school introducing this to 8 and 9 year olds?" How about because 8 and 9 year olds will have to deal with a trans kid? (via Dispatches from the Culture Wars)

Things Younger Than John McCain

Alaska. Plutonium. Bugs Bunny. Both of Barack Obama's parents. McDonalds. Mt. Rushmore.

Infographic: All of Inflation's Little Parts

Absolutely amazing infographic from the New York Times shows us how the Bureau of Labor Statistics categorizes price inflation across different market segments. This is how you do information design.

Karl Marx Predicted Hannah Montana Would Go Nude

Good, old-fashioned Marxist thinking about the "commodity" is helpful and can explain what the hell happened. This dust-up points to the fact that Miley Cyrus' body is a commodity that is controlled by two different sets of interests and agendas: those of Disney and those of her family. Disney has an interest in making sure Miley Cyrus' body remains "Hannah Montana,"The Opium Of The People" franchise par excellence, for as long as possible. ... On the other hand, the Cyrus family has an interest in maintaining the 15 year-old's body as "Hannah Montana" in the near and intermediate future, but from there they obviously need to be more flexible and shrewd.

I dunno, thinking about Miley Cyrus's body that way is just a little bit outre'. I'm sure that's the intent. (via Arts & Letters Daily)

Comments

[erisiansaint]

That one about the father who killed his own daughter made me ill. Self-righteous pieces of...I don't have enough bad things to say about this.

[idunn.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what's worse - the crime or the people I've heard defend things like this in the name of cultural relativism. Dude, some things are just wrong, period.