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I’m off to Europe this summer to spend 3 weeks apiece in two different countries doing some sciency type things. I have about four months to reach a level of fluency in two different languages that will allow me to identify food, find bathrooms, and use public transportation with a minimum of tears. […]

I’ve had a good week, so let’s spread some joy:
Stephen Colbert gets his picture into the National Portrait Gallery.
The museum agreed to give him a limited six-week showing — right between the bathrooms near the “America’s Presidents” exhibit. Museum officials say that’s an “appropriate place.”
Japan makes strawberry-covered chocolates.
Take for example one of FCOM’s products, a […]

Plagiarism is wrong; especially plagiarism this bad:
On page 195, after several false starts to stoke the furnaces of readers, Bramlett and Shadow Bear finally get down to business. They have sex in his teepee on some animal pelts. Hungrily, their sinuous bodies rock and quake until both explode in rapturous pleasure. When the teepee flaps […]

Digby’s so smart and right:

But for some reason, the hunting trips and codpieces and brush clearing and all that metaphorical crotch measuring isn’t considered playing “the gender card.” It’s just considered the normal political pander to an aggrieved minority vote: the poor white males who’ve been treated terribly by all those powerful women and minorities […]

My salt shaker has corroded shut, and should I break it tomorrow in a last attempt to open it with some help from a vise, I may need a new salt and pepper shaker set. Maybe this time I’d like a cute one, so off to ebay I go.
And, oh, my god.
First […]

Well, duh.
Coming home to a loving spouse and a good marriage helps working women shake off the stress of the day, new research confirms.
Slightly less duh, but still kind of duh.
Men, on the other hand, often drop their stress at the door when they come home, regardless of the state of their union, reported psychology […]

I really don’t remember this scene from Fantasia.
You may have already seen this, but if you haven’t, do take a moment and check out Cracked.com’s rundown of Disney’s most shameful moments. I mean, not that it’s surprising that a massive corporation run by a right-wing snitch has some skanky race issues, but wow.
Most parents show […]

Over at Boundless Webzine, Focus on the Family’s source of hip, Candice Watters is reminded by the New York Times to warn science to beware, bee–waaarrreeeeeee!!!!!!!! That is, beware to continue to be aware that scientific ethics are a good thing.
Also, did you know that in the past, scientists were sometimes wrong? And […]

There’s no shortage of misguided notions to be found in MRA/pick-up artist/MSN-Lifestyle-reading/Craigslist-rant-posting circles (which all seem to overlap, surprisingly). But one common meme that seems to always crop up is the scenario of a man and a woman, out on a date. He buys dinner and movie tickets and perhaps some flowers, and then acts […]

New Year’s Eve Wrap-Up:
1: Karma points for the new year. I successfully prevented my roommate from dressing up by taking his normal “baggy jeans and seven-year-old Rancid concert t-shirt” and simply throwing a perfectly good tailored blue pin-stripe jacket over it. If he got laid last night instead of mocked to death, he […]