20 percent of scientists polled by Nature Magazine use either ritalin (66 percent of users), provigil or beta blockers (this was just an April Fool’s Day joke)
Republicans boo latest addition to the U.S. Congress - Jackie Speier (D-CA).
“The process to bring the troops home must begin immediately,” she told Pelosi. “The president wants to stay the course and a man who wants to replace him suggests we could be in Iraq for 100 years. But Madam Speaker, history will not judge us kindly if we sacrifice four generations of Americans because of the folly of one.”
She’s not particularly different from other democrats, so why the hostile reception? If anything, her life is just tragic.
including parts for F-14 fighter jets, unused chemical-biological canister and a used Nuclear Biological Chemical protective suit, all stolen from the Department of Defense, of course.
And to mitigate this damage, they must to explain why they were upset. But it doesn’t bode well for men to explain why they were angered.
I wonder if the study from a former Hillary Clinton Congressional Fellow (Uhlmann) considered race and other social factors in their analysis.
Of course, white men are rational and everyone else should be presumed emotionally liable until proven otherwise. And yet, when a man explains himself, his peers lose a little of their credence in his reasoning ability. Perhaps, his actions are a little less justifiable - he is used to getting his way without needing to explain himself.
Clinton Surprise: “I’m Stepping Aside for Obama”
Hillary Clinton shocked the nation this April Fool’s Day by announcing early this morning that she was pulling out of the Democratic presidential race and throwing her support to Barack Obama. “I cannot in good faith continue my candidacy when the math says I cannot win,” Clinton stated, surprising a crowd of supporters at a breakfast event in Philadelphia. view rest of article
Voguing came from NYC queer culture, specifically among the Black gay and transgendered community. Folks would hold Balls, which were parties that had style and performance contests. The contests would have many different categories, which people would dress up and perform.
Contestants would be judged based on the “realness” of their performance, that is the ability for them to pass on the streets without other people questioning or doubting their authenticity. The winner would receive a trophy.
For example, a category could be corporate executive or fashion model, and the winner would be the person who best resembled and acted like an executive or model. (more…)
During a campaign stop in Texas, Hillary Clinton’s campaign treated the press to a filing center in the men’s bathroom. Journalists filed stories at tables set up next to urinals and bathroom stalls. (March 4)
Such a woman. So passive aggressive. (i’m kidding)
Hillary Clinton launched an all out negative ad in Wisconsin against Obama–a declaration of war to take back the lead (she only plays nice when she’s winning):
Obama responded, “I understand Senator Clinton periodically [pauses] when she is feeling down [pauses] launches attacks as a way of trying to boost her appeal. But I think this kind of gamesmanship is not what the American people are looking for.”
Did Obama really just go there? Is Obama claiming that Clinton is PMSing? Oh no, he didn’t. Strategic word play, and Obama is an amazing orator. I have no doubt that it is intentional.
Jane Fonda’s use of the word cunt on NBC’s “Today Show” prompted an immediate apology by the network. And now it’s getting lots of attention in the news–the most viewed article on Reuters.
But what’s so news worthy about it? Nothing. Nothing at all.
Fonda was talking about the vagina monologues:
I was asked to do a monologue called ‘Cunt,’ and I said, ‘I don’t think so. I’ve got enough problems.’ Then I came to New York to see Eve and it changed my life.
She just let it slip and now kids everywhere (on the eastern coast where it aired live) are damaged for life, irreparably. Oh the pain, that is cunt.
I really hate how media paint women as frigid and assume men are libidinous. An article on CNN Health (currently, the most viewed on CNN) notes that 40 million people in the US have a sexless marriage, meaning they have sex fewer than 10 times a year. And yep, it’s women’s faults. Women feel so entitled to work that they think they no longer need to sexually please their husbands for some measure of financial stability.
Gad dawn second wave feminism
The article takes its cue from Anita H. Clayton, M.D., who must really hate herself (though not as much as Coulter), and her article “Satisfaction: Women, Sex, and the Quest for Intimacy.”She assumes that women are the ones who don’t want to have sex and that they are the ones that need to change. This is misogynist bullshit.
According to Louanne Cole Weston, M.D. of WebMD, “When people wrote in about the discrepancy of frequency and desire, about 40 percent of the time it was men wanting less.”
This is what her article says causes sexless marriages: (more…)
A study from the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research found that the longer we’re with our partners, the more we view our partners negatively.
“Everything you’ve been taught about love is sentimental hogwash, says psychotherapist Adam Phillips. Relationships can’t be worked on, women aren’t any more dependent than men — and there’s nothing wrong with infidelity.”
i saw people on the metro today carrying pro-choice signs–why? It is the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the January 22, 1973 supreme court decision giving women the right to choose.
there were also bus-loads of anti-choice evangelicals with “their obese kids” dumping onto the mall this morning. speaking via remote from the white house, bush addressed the tens of thousands of anti-choicers before they marched the streets.
it just makes me think: damn those bushes for nominating such young fucking people to the supreme court–Roberts is only 52 and Thomas is just 59!
The new anti-choice movement attempts to revive an earlier time when men made all the decisions for women:
“As a sidewalk counselor, I wait outside abortion clinics until the men come out to use their cellphones. I tell them I’m not there to judge them. I’m there to help,” said Valentine, 20, one of about 800 participants in the District yesterday for the annual conference of Students for Life of America. “Sometimes they break down and cry and go back and bring out their girlfriends to reconsider.”
“Bisexuality in women appears to be a distinctive sexual orientation and not an experimental or transitional stage that some women adopt ‘on their way’ to lesbianism, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.” Science Daily
WTF, people thought bisexuality in women was a transitional stage? I’ve never heard that one before. This study, of a largely white middle class population (per the authors), did not support that.
The results show a complex picture; and do not show bisexuality as a transitional stage between the sexuality duality (homosexuality-heterosexuality).
In her NYT’s article “TV’s Perfect Girl Is Pregnant; Real Families Talk” Sara Rimer interviews families and high school students about the pregnancy of Jamie Lynn Spears. Families seemed concerned about supposed impressionability of their children. A S. Carolinian father said, “She was supposed to be one of the good, clean actresses for girls to follow after. I think it just sends an awful message for the young girls [my emphasis].” Sex is so dirty.
Overall, I’m impressed with the perspicaciousness of the high schoolers, who generally just questioned why she didn’t know about contraceptives. As one astute 16-year said, “There is no excuse for not using contraception.”
This is hilarious–published in volume The Social Cognitive Neuroscience of Corporate Thinking from the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Design: Researchers asked couple dozen college students (for research credit) to pretend that they owned a small business and were interviewing potential employees. The participants were 19 ovulating women with an average age of 19years and 15 men with a mean age of 22years; all of the participants were heterosexual and righthanded. (more…)
i’m not a fan of seeing old folks’ pierced genitalia. this adds more evidence to my previous post. my generation is too full of prudes who scoff at 50+ year olds and their heavily decorated labia.
mike got me hooked on vice magazine’s dos and don’ts–the above was a don’t.
“According to academic research on sexual habits, people born between 1965 and 1985 have significantly fewer sexual partners and are less likely to be unfaithful than those who came before and after them.” Generation X goes slack on sex
damn. no wonder i felt out of the college scene–i was just a bit too old. i guess the younger kids really did live like that.
never knew i am genx, though. that’s surprising. according to wikipedia, it only includes those born between 1965 and 1980, so i’m not really, but i guess my sexlife is still caught in its downward spiral. damn. (more…)
Voguing came from NYC queer culture, specifically among the Black gay and transgendered community. Folks would hold Balls, which were parties that had style and performance contests. The contests would have many different categories, which people would dress up and perform.
I really hate how media paint women as frigid and assume men are libidinous. An article on 
