“U.N. Elects Iran to Commission on Women’s Rights” (more…)

As imagined by xkcd: (more…)

From Spiked:     (more…)

From BBC News (by way of Marginal Revolution):
Dating by blood type in Japan

The black sheep though seem to be blood group B – flamboyant free-thinkers, but selfish.

“At the interview for my first job they asked me about my blood type,” said a man with blood group B, who wanted to identify himself only as Kouichi.

“The surprise was written on my face. Why? It turned out the company president really cared. She’d obviously had a bad experience with a B type blood person. But somehow I got the job anyway.”

Later, though, the issue of his blood came up again.

“The president was the kind of person who couldn’t take her drink and at one company party she got drunk. So she sent B people home before the others. ‘You are blood type B,’ she said. ‘Get out.'”

There is even a term for such behaviour in Japan, burahara, which translates as blood group harassment.

I’m thinking this may not play well with the voters.

Link. And they’re in his camp.

P.J. O’Rourke continues his lifelong drift from liberal to libertarian to conservative:   (more…)

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We have a technical term in the scientific community for models that make predictions as accurate as this: (more…)

“Roots of Islamic fundamentalism lie in Nazi propaganda for Arab world” (more…)

George Will reports.

In part 1, I discussed the difference between articulate and inarticulate knowledge that is explored in Thomas Sowell’s Knowledge and Decisions. (more…)

Proving no one reads those stupid EULAs. (more…)

From Ph.D. Comics.  (more…)

Never heard of him? Look towards the end of this essay.

Manhood sometimes wears geek glasses.