A FEW years ago, a self-described “militant liberal” named Val Curtis decided that it was time to save millions of children from death and disease. So Dr. Curtis, an anthropologist then living in the African nation of Burkina Faso, contacted some of the largest multinational corporations and asked them, in effect, to teach her how to manipulate ( Read more... )

Too lazy to embed video, so just click the damn link.

(You'll be happy you did. I guarantee it.)

Thanks, RCDM!

I once had a printout of the cover of Psychogenetics for Dummies hanging in my cubicle. It was a parody, of course.

This, on the other hand, is not.

Don't forget your plague gift sets for Passover.

I was reading the NY Times this morning and came across this:


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Courtesy of The Reality-Based Community blog.


If Ann Coulter had Liveblogged the Gettysburg Address

It is a funny blog, and it is good.

http://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous/

Scroll down to the 2/22/08 entry titled "My First Chapter..."

If you haven't discovered it already:

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/

Update: I should also recommend that you don't read the comments on that blog. Unless you want to feel like scrubbing your brain out with bleach afterwards.

In 2004, a court in San Francisco rejected a conservative group’s challenge to a statute allowing gay marriage because the operative phrases were separated incorrectly by a semicolon instead of by the proper conjunction.

Anyone know how I would go about purchasing private health insurance?