Reader Joe T. sent me a link to this story (scroll halfway down) about female obesity correlating with lower pay in the workplace. The study’s conclusion — that fat women suffer a wage penalty because of discrimination — is shaky (for instance, fat women may be less productive than their thinner counterparts due to health […]
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Hoping to prove to myself that I am a badass nonconformist, I read through all 76 entries to date at the Stuff White People Like blog and tallied up my score to see how many applied to me. I was as truthful in my answers as I could tolerate. My white person score: 27 out […]
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A reader sent me a link to this eye-popping morphing video montage of the beautiful faces of Hollywood leading ladies over the years. There is a vague, eerie similarity among all the faces. Beautiful women aren’t clones of each other but neither do they deviate too far from the primary beauty script. For instance, no […]
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Standing in the last minute Valentine’s Day checkout line at the supermarket with twenty other men carrying roses, cards and chocolates, I paid for my one economy sized bottle of grape seed massage oil. They eyed my purchase curiously. Suckers. *** Behold the world’s funniest (and most bitingly insightful) new blog: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/ If you are […]
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Posted in Culture, Tool Time, Ugly Truths on Feb 13th, 2008
In the last post discussing the Japanese embrace of all things A.I., one of the commenters mentioned that Japan’s ratio of engineers to lawyers is 10 to 1, while the U.S.’s ratio is the reverse: 1 to 10. Because I have a special contempt for most lawyer chicks which impels me to fuck them hard, […]
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Posted in Culture, Globalization, Tool Time on Feb 12th, 2008
I went to a Japanese cultural exhibit at the Kennedy Center. The crowd pleasing favorites were the robots. This guy rolls around answering questions in a chipper voice and shaking hands: He’d make a great politician if his answers were a little more vague. This robot, made by Toyota, plays the trumpet using a complicated […]
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I think it’s retarded. But when the whole world is being retarded it pays to join them. It’ll make life easier and you’ll feel better. I’m a Killer App Konformist.
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Posted in Culture, Escape, Self-aggrandizement on Jan 31st, 2008
Also known as the brozenge.* Here it cums !** Well, almost. If it does happen, here are my predictions: Market Penetration – deep and wide. Condoms are everywhere. So will be the male pill. Except for the CVS in my hood where they will be locked behind bullet proof glass and only accessible via an […]
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Posted in Biomechanics is God, Culture on Jan 25th, 2008
I have a theory. Here it is: The welfare state has created more pump and dumpers. I only have casual observation, not hard data, to back up my theory. I base it on the exponential increase in the past ten years of businesses teaching pickup skills to men. These are real businesses with satisfied clientele […]
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Posted in Culture, Current Events on Jan 23rd, 2008
Heath Ledger either offed himself or OD’ed and the merchants of maudlin are in full emote braying about what a “tragedy” and a “shock” it is. Tragedy. This is one of those words that has been so bastardized by misuse and overuse that it has ceased to mean anything. What happened to Ledger was not […]
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