Month: November 2011

culture

The lek mating system

In a lek based mating system, males and females regularly gather at some location and the males put on a display. The females inspect the displays, then, after much wandering about, have sex with one of the males, never to meet that male again. Absent patriarchy, humans predominantly mate on the lek system.

economics

MF Global Obama

John Corzine was the US Government, in the same sense, and to the same extent, as the Occupy Wall Street protestors are the US government.  He stole his depositors money, and pissed it away, not on wine, women and song, nor on gambling on stocks nor horses, nor at the casino, nor on purchasing little …

culture

Women drivers

Women drivers have more serious crashes than male drivers. Obviously sexism it to blame, and car manufacturers must be punished. Poor fragile women driving a car need more protection from evil men.

politics

Pepper spray theater

Observe that when the video begins, all the students obviously know that the designated group of pepper sprayees is going to be pepper sprayed, and everyone has taken their positions to spray, to be sprayed, or, for the great majority, to watch the spraying in the confident knowledge that only the designated evil bad guys …

politics

Police protect astroturf to obstruct Seattle traffic

The Seattle Times tells us that: Hundreds of demonstrators marched onto Seattle’s University Bridge Thursday halting traffic during the evening rush hour in one of several rallies nationwide for “Jobs Not Cuts.” You may ask:  How did they manage to get “hundreds” to show up, and how could “hundreds” halt traffic?