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Dec 07 2008
And this is news exactly how?
Women admit their sympathy for ‘man flu’ victims runs out after five minutes – Telegraph
Women’s sympathy with husbands and boyfriends who complain of having a cold runs out after just five minutes, a survey claims. And almost a fifth of women say they feel no sympathy at all for their partners’ “man flu”.
But men, by contrast, say they are prepared to take time off work to care for their suffering wives or girlfriends, cooking meals and cleaning the home.
A poll found that women were far less likely to sit by their man’s bedside mopping his brow than the traditional stereotype suggests.
More than half (52 per cent) of women polled said that they lose sympathy with their husband or boyfriend within five minutes of his first complaint about feeling under the weather.
Some 18 per cent said that they start from an unsympathetic point of view, according to the survey carried out for carried out for the makers of Lemsip Max Stength.
Sigh.
Dec 07 2008
If I lived in London, I’d be paranoid too
Paranoia May Be More Common Than Thought
I’m trying not to read this headline literally. Since real “thought” is pretty unusual, that would mean there isn’t much paranoia. But I don’t think that’s what they meant. So, to the article:
LONDON, If you think they’re out to get you, you’re not alone. Paranoia, once assumed to afflict only schizophrenics, may be a lot more common than previously thought.
According to British psychologist Daniel Freeman, nearly one in four Londoners regularly have paranoid thoughts. Freeman is a paranoia expert at the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College and the author of a book on the subject.
Experts say there is a wide spectrum of paranoia, from the dangerous delusions that drive schizophrenics to violence, to the irrational fears many people have daily.
“We are now starting to discover that madness is human and that we need to look at normal people to understand it,” said Dr. Jim van Os, a professor of psychiatry at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Van Os was not connected to Freeman’s studies.
Like I said, if I lived in London, I’d be paranoid, too.
Dec 06 2008
Maybe it’s not quite THAT bad
A friend of mine around age 31 or so, with a couple of small children, recently put up a blog post about his sense of impending doom on the economic front. Herewith, my response, trying to make the point that things were actually worse for people his age in the late 1970s and early 1980s, in real terms, and there is reasonable hope that it will all work out, even with a blundering government that doesn’t quite know what to do, and is too proud to have the courage to do very little.
I used to hate it when old guys started out with, “When I was your age”, but…
Dec 06 2008
Smart bugs: oh to be a fly on the wall
Bug-Sized Spies: US Develops Tiny Flying Robots
If only we could be a fly on the wall when our enemies are plotting to attack us. Better yet, what if that fly could record voices, transmit video and even fire tiny weapons?
That kind of James Bond-style fantasy is actually on the drawing board. U.S. military engineers are trying to design flying robots disguised as insects that could one day spy on enemies and conduct dangerous missions without risking lives.
“The way we envision it is, there would be a bunch of these sent out in a swarm,” said Greg Parker, who helps lead the research project at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton. “If we know there’s a possibility of bad guys in a certain building, how do we find out? We think this would fill that void.”
In essence, the research seeks to miniaturize the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle drones used in Iraq and Afghanistan for surveillance and reconnaissance.
The next generation of drones, called Micro Aerial Vehicles, or MAVs, could be as tiny as bumblebees and capable of flying undetected into buildings, where they could photograph, record, and even attack insurgents and terrorists.
Can I have one of these to send to faculty meetings, so I can just stay home and watch remotely? The best part: if I decide to speak from my position as fly on the wall, and as usual someone throws something at me, I can just smile and change the channel.
They’ll never take me alive…. er, my bug, that is.
Dec 05 2008
The Left at Christian Universities, part 7: Speech codes
Part 6 in this series can be found here.
Speech codes limit campus freedom
Millions of high school seniors have started the process of deciding which college or university to attend in the next academic year. Prospective students will take into consideration cost, academics, social life, and location. And while many students will also look at schools that reflect their interests and values, virtually none will be thinking about the school’s speech codes or free speech zones. They should. Students at colleges and universities who articulate conservative and traditional views are at particular risk of bullying and indoctrination by campus administrators and faculty who are zealous ideologues.
Continue reading “The Left at Christian Universities, part 7: Speech codes”
Dec 05 2008
The Iraq War is essentially won: now we just stay long enough to stabilize
Presidency Council Ratifies U.S.-Iraq Security Pact
The new U.S.-Iraq security pact that was approved by Iraqi lawmakers Nov. 27 was ratified by Iraq’s Presidency Council today, senior U.S. officials said.
Continue reading “The Iraq War is essentially won: now we just stay long enough to stabilize”
Dec 05 2008
Enough is Enough!!!
The California Teachers Association, the largest, and some would say the most powerful teacher’s union in California has been broadcasting paid radio advertising spots since 2007. Unfortunately one of the radio stations to which I listen continues to air these ads. I am subjected to them on a fairly regular basis and I must say I’ve about had it! (And I thought equal time had to be provided to opposing views – but I digress). The latest gem is called “Faces”. If you’d like to hear the current ad or any others from the CTA archive click here. If you’d like my personal “Cliff Notes” version of their ads, here it is – “California schools have a lot of problems. We could solve all the problems if you would just give us more money.”
Dec 04 2008
The Kossacks spin till they drop: UPDATE
Now the Daily KOS is trying hard to blunt the evident facts of how poorly Obama voters were informed, on average, by slicing out of an interview of John Ziegler (on Hannity & Colmes) the smallest possible little thread to try to make it seem as if John Ziegler thinks it make sense for voters to think Obama is a Muslim. That is not what he was saying, at all, it is his assessment that there is at least a small factual background for that, in Obama’s childhood. But it’s the best the Kossacks can do to criticize the poll Ziegler is quoting. Compare the video at this link to the tiny snippet Daily Kos shows above, and form your own conclusion. It was really clear that Colmes was just trying to stop Ziegler from talking, always a sign that you don’t want the other side to even have a chance to make their case, because you’re afraid of the evidence.
UPDATE: Be sure to READ THE COMMENTS at the Kos link. Read them all. Get a feel for these people. Understand the world they live in. If you voted for Obama, ask yourself if these are people you want to associate yourself with. I invite you to go look at Right leaning websites to see if you can find people confessing to crimes and laughing about it. And then there’s the out and out hate speech.
Dec 04 2008
In the wake of Mumbai, maybe we’ll pay attention…
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