Monthly Archives: October 2005

This almost makes you feel sorry for these guys. Almost.

Stop the presses! Seriously, though. Is anyone worried about this? It’s an honest question. At some schools (which will remain unnamed) that are committed to a 50-50 male/female split, there’s a real achievement gap. And it’s not the males who … Continue reading →

But can it dice onions?

Michael Bérubé has an interesting post on footnotes. Well, the backstory part is interesting. When it came to reading the actual sample footnote, I lost interest and went back to reading the main text.

Give me a hurricane! Ummm… to drink, I mean.

This Cognitive Daily post took me two days to write. Why? Partially because this is difficult material, but partly because my brain wasn’t quite screwed on straight. Please read it, if for nothing else than to validate all that hard … Continue reading →

Why is so much of the stuff they teach in school so boring and irrelevant? Why can’t they just teach me the stuff I need to know to get a good job, and, like, a nice car? Fisking of the … Continue reading →

And sometimes they write much much better responses to misguided articles about abortion

Ahem. (NSFW, naturally). Vote for your “favorite” here. Oops. You can’t vote unless you write. If you can stand it. Express your outrage at this injustice in the comments.

Now Google’s “freeloading” off the hard labor of authors. If Google’s undergoing the expensive, labor-intensive project of scanning millions of books isn’t hard work, I’d like to see what the AAP thinks “hard work” is.

No need to panic? But what if this guy’s wrong, and we did nothing to prepare for it?

Say it loud enough, and it will be true

The Colbert Report is brilliant. Thank God for TiVo, or I’d be forced to stay up until midnight every weeknight for the best hour on TV, ever.

This has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with global warming. If we all say it loud enough, it will be true.

Let’s hope it’s at least half as good as this one.

Weepy, heart-warming article here. But that’s not the point. The point is, people should get to choose whether their “potential” child becomes a real child. Deciding to have sex should not be the same thing as deciding to raise a … Continue reading →

Political Animal has the details