Researchers from the University of Alaska–Anchorage are installing pregnancy test dispensers in the women’s restrooms in bars and restaurants in remote communities in Alaska. The goal is to avert fetal alcohol syndrome. Of course, the obvious next on will be to require women to show the tes[...]
Posts Tagged ‘political correctness’
June 20th, 2014 - 12:41 am § in America
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June 11th, 2014 - 12:10 pm § in Uncategorized
BREAKING NEWS: Why Cantor lost and what it means for WASTATE,
Plausible reason Cantor lost: 1. His (tentative) support for immigration reform. 2. His position as the GOPs show Jew, the only Jew in an otherwise 100% solidly Christian party (if we include Muslims Mormons) in Congress, made him a target. 3. Folks in Virginia felt that Cantor was a showboat, n[...]
CHINA: New Speak as Foreign Policy
Freedom of navigation more important to China than to US or Japan Xinhua Weibo Facebook Twitter Reddit Diigo Delicious Digg Linkedin MySpace Sina Weibo Kaixin Renren Q-zone Tencent Weibo Sohu Weibo NetEase Weibo PEACE IS WAR English.news.cn | 2014-05-31 22:48:46 | Editor: Mu Xuequan SINGAPORE, Ma[...]
Slur of the Day: Where did the term “honkey” originate?
Honky also spelled “honkey” or “honkie” (1) (U.S.) an offensive term for a white person. Derived from an African-American pronunciation of “hunky“, the disparaging term for a Hungarian laborer. The first record of its use as an insulting term for a white person da[...]
April 28th, 2014 - 3:11 am § in Misc.
South Carolina: Why would anyone choose to live there?
GOP Has No Time to Honor Statue of The Man Who Ordered Their Predesccors to Desegregate Who wrote: “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal?” The descendent of Southern aristocrats and the son of a Confederate veteran, In 1951, 3 years before Brown v. Board of Education, J[...]
April 26th, 2014 - 3:17 am § in Schools & Colleges
OMG my first Ombud joke.
Politically correct speech has stifled a very large segment of the natural human instinct to make fun of other people. Anyone telling an ethnic joke must now begin by looking around the room to see who will be insulted. An especially egregious example of this is the enforcement of politically correc[...]
April 21st, 2014 - 8:54 am § in Environment
BERKELEY BLOG: Will Blocking Keystone Be Good For the Environment?
Not building Keystone XL will likely leave a billion barrels of bitumen in the ground Maximillian Auffhammer, associate professor, agricultural and resource economics | 3/25/14 I am not a fan of blanket statements. Whenever oil sands come up in casual conversation, many of my economist friends argue[...]
Does South Carolina Still Fly The Confederate Flag on Its State House?
Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12–14, 1861) First Act of The Civil Wat They sort of took it down. The compromise is that it flies on the capitol grounds beside a memorial to South Carolina’s Confederate dead. The calim is that it hnors the npoble dead who fount a war to keep humans like [...]
April 10th, 2014 - 10:18 am § in Hypocrisy
Sometimes the right is right
Over at HorsesAss, Goldy complains that “Governor Inslee has absolutely nothing political to gain from appointing a justice from the other side of the mountains. Either way, he will not receive a single Eastern Washington daily newspaper editorial board endorsement in 2016, regardless of his[...]
CUBA: American Hypocrisy
Statement from Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relations • MINREX forcefully rejects the manipulation of an issue as sensitive as international terrorism, in order to advance a policy against Cuba, and demands that our country be definitively deleted from this spurious, unilateral, arbitrary list, which[...]