2. When asked, I’ve always said that being ticklish is a state of mind. David Eagleman takes up the argument. A person can be tickled because of the element of surprise. A person can’t tickle themselves because they will always predict their own intentions. I think a somewhat more interesting facet of tickleishness is how close in nature the laugh response is to the terror response. I’ve never been the type to relentlessly tickle someone (a girlfriend or something similar), but I’ve seen people being tickled in that way. They can start out laughing hysterically but then begin screaming or piss themselves almost as if they are frightened or in the beginning stages of a panic attack.
3. Jokes aren’t jokes and non-jokes are. Another retarded skit from W. Kamau Bell’s show (linked via The Frisky, of course “as a joke”; h/t Instapundit). Why doesn’t Bell just get specific and say that white men should abstain from voting? Black men and Hispanic men and other minority men will vote for Obama in droves. Come clean Kamau. This show is an abortion of humor and will not last. Enjoy the mocking lulz while they last.
4.More and more companies are cutting workers’ hours in order to avoid providing health insurance to their employees in order to comply with Obamacare’s mandate that large employers have to pay for insurance for workers clocking more than 30 hours per week. If Obamacare remains intact, companies will be penalized in some way for skirting this law.
6. Cord Jefferson is carving out a niche at Gawker as the go-to “let’s boo-hoo for the criminals” staff writer. He defends the “Nanny Killer” against the characterization of her as being some sort of evil person. Jefferson instead wants everyone to know that she had mental issues. Gawker’s commenters seem to think Jefferson is full of it. Isn’t this the oldest conversation in the world? Jefferson drew heat a few months ago for sympathizing with pedophiles.
I hope that Ortega spends the rest of her life a prisoner (as I doubt NY will execute her). What she did was depraved and abhorrent, no matter her state of mind at the time.
One wonders if Cord will write his next apologia for James Holmes.
More and more companies are cutting workers’ hours in order to avoid providing health insurance to their employees in order to comply with Obamacare’s mandate that large employers have to pay for insurance for workers clocking more than 30 hours per week. If Obamacare remains intact, companies will be penalized in some way for skirting this law.
I don’t see a problem with that. This will lead to a public option ultimately and relieve American companies of bearing the burden of their employees’ health, thus making them more competitive. .
except that means that workers work fewer hours per week. that’s money out of their pocket that they’d otherwise spend on bills rather than health care. my managers right now won’t let anyone work overtime, and the law would certainly make them cut the workers who work near that threshold by 9 hours per week. that’s a lot of money over the course of a year.
How many more miles can journalists squeeze out of the meaningless phrase “more alike than different”? Cats and dogs are more alike than different because they both have hair, tails and the placement of their facial features.
Male and female orgasms are different, except for the brain activity at the moment of climax. Big Deal. They have completely different purposes. The male version is the goal of the entire deal. It is necessary for the continuation of the species. The female version is at the very least a bonus. It is not required for the act to be complete. While the article didn’t really get into the differences in purpose, the standard reason given is to increase the uptake of sperm. While that may be true, it’s not nearly as important as it’s role to greatly increase the likelihood of the male climax taking place. Why doesn’t any article I can remember ever mention this. It can’t take up what isn’t there.
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-09/what-point-female-orgasm
Case in point, the purpose of the female orgasm is either to help in “pair bonding”, to help in mate selection or to help in hoovering up the sperm. Another theory is that it is simply a by-product.
Why are scientists so stupid?
Standards of living are going to fall regardless of what happens in health care and there is little anyone can do about that. The last 70 years was an historical anomaly. One thing we can do in lieu of rising standards of living is ensure we have adequate health care.
Anyone with any intelligence knows what blacks and women simply cannot do. Whatever the media shows them doing in TV shows is what they are incapable of.
Conversely, what the media shows them not doing, is what they are good at. Having babies is something the media doesn’t show women doing. Number 1 job for women. Raising children is another.
Hey leftie beta males! Frustrated with the constant portrayals of you on TV as stupid asses? We ourselves eat them up, but let’s put that aside a second. Come take the bait and bare your frustrations to us within the ground rules we allow you, so we can take your words and use them to frame the discussion and influence what our readers think of you.
If you were smart you wouldn’t kid yourselves, we your hosts still loathe the traditional father-husband, and think the family structure mixing love/sex with financial/parenting support in the same package is the bedrock of discrimination against women. But it suits our purposes just now to pretend to be your friend who listens to you. We do think you’re dumb enough to play right into our hands, after all, it’s always worked on you betas before. Come on, we’ve got a deadline here, we haven’t got all day.
interesting video on how incredibly vulgar supposedly muslim north-african men in brussels can be towards european women. This goes beyond cat calling. The feminist who did the video has been criticized for singling out moroccan men. Never mind they’re the only ones doing this. I don’t thnk even the africans are that bad, as unbelievable as that sounds.
I hope that Ortega spends the rest of her life a prisoner (as I doubt NY will execute her). What she did was depraved and abhorrent, no matter her state of mind at the time.
One wonders if Cord will write his next apologia for James Holmes.
More and more companies are cutting workers’ hours in order to avoid providing health insurance to their employees in order to comply with Obamacare’s mandate that large employers have to pay for insurance for workers clocking more than 30 hours per week. If Obamacare remains intact, companies will be penalized in some way for skirting this law.
I don’t see a problem with that. This will lead to a public option ultimately and relieve American companies of bearing the burden of their employees’ health, thus making them more competitive. .
shmiggen,
except that means that workers work fewer hours per week. that’s money out of their pocket that they’d otherwise spend on bills rather than health care. my managers right now won’t let anyone work overtime, and the law would certainly make them cut the workers who work near that threshold by 9 hours per week. that’s a lot of money over the course of a year.
How many more miles can journalists squeeze out of the meaningless phrase “more alike than different”? Cats and dogs are more alike than different because they both have hair, tails and the placement of their facial features.
Male and female orgasms are different, except for the brain activity at the moment of climax. Big Deal. They have completely different purposes. The male version is the goal of the entire deal. It is necessary for the continuation of the species. The female version is at the very least a bonus. It is not required for the act to be complete. While the article didn’t really get into the differences in purpose, the standard reason given is to increase the uptake of sperm. While that may be true, it’s not nearly as important as it’s role to greatly increase the likelihood of the male climax taking place. Why doesn’t any article I can remember ever mention this. It can’t take up what isn’t there.
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-09/what-point-female-orgasm
Case in point, the purpose of the female orgasm is either to help in “pair bonding”, to help in mate selection or to help in hoovering up the sperm. Another theory is that it is simply a by-product.
Why are scientists so stupid?
You didn’t notice this one? Lesbians make better mothers or some shit.
Standards of living are going to fall regardless of what happens in health care and there is little anyone can do about that. The last 70 years was an historical anomaly. One thing we can do in lieu of rising standards of living is ensure we have adequate health care.
w. kamau bell is awful and chris rock should be ashamed for producing his dumb show.
also, chuck, “the” is an incomplete symbol. bone up on your bertrand russell.
One thing we can do in lieu of rising standards of living is ensure that people are free to form their own communities.
Fixed.
Anyone with any intelligence knows what blacks and women simply cannot do. Whatever the media shows them doing in TV shows is what they are incapable of.
Conversely, what the media shows them not doing, is what they are good at. Having babies is something the media doesn’t show women doing. Number 1 job for women. Raising children is another.
“Jokes aren’t jokes and non-jokes are. Another retarded skit from W. Kamau Bell’s show”
I would like to add that Patrice O’Neal died a year ago this month.
He survives on YouTube.
Hey leftie beta males! Frustrated with the constant portrayals of you on TV as stupid asses? We ourselves eat them up, but let’s put that aside a second. Come take the bait and bare your frustrations to us within the ground rules we allow you, so we can take your words and use them to frame the discussion and influence what our readers think of you.
If you were smart you wouldn’t kid yourselves, we your hosts still loathe the traditional father-husband, and think the family structure mixing love/sex with financial/parenting support in the same package is the bedrock of discrimination against women. But it suits our purposes just now to pretend to be your friend who listens to you. We do think you’re dumb enough to play right into our hands, after all, it’s always worked on you betas before. Come on, we’ve got a deadline here, we haven’t got all day.
How W. Kamau Bell has a show is unbelieveable. He is an unfunny black version of Poindexter from Revenge of the Nerds.
interesting video on how incredibly vulgar supposedly muslim north-african men in brussels can be towards european women. This goes beyond cat calling. The feminist who did the video has been criticized for singling out moroccan men. Never mind they’re the only ones doing this. I don’t thnk even the africans are that bad, as unbelievable as that sounds.
http://www.mrctv.org/videos/sexual-harassment-women-brussels-whole-video