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[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

If you hate yourself, read the comments on that article.

Sarah Pavis's was BRILLIANT.  She's staring at a pair of tits, apparently.   

I liked that one.

[EK WAFFLR]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/09/richard-dawkins-pedophilia_n_3895514.html Way to go, Dawkins. Way to go.

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[EK WAFFLR]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1iSxEtgEGs

icky.

[Cramulus]

Apple Unveils Panicked Man With No Ideas

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[The Good Reverend Roger]

Apple Unveils Panicked Man With No Ideas

ALSO

http://www.theonion.com/articles/word-innovate-said-650000-times-at-sxsw-so-far,31618/

[EK WAFFLR]

So it is something of a pattern then.  At least the interviewer tried to take him to task (I think, had he not been so shocked, he would have said LOL SAMPLE BASED ON SINGLE ANECDOTE).

http://www.richarddawkins.net/foundation_articles/2012/12/22/physical-versus-mental-child-abuse

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/09/richard-dawkins-pedophilia_n_3895514.html Way to go, Dawkins. Way to go.

Ugh, Dawkins. Kai posted this on Facebook yesterday, and I was just, really?

So in addition to being a bigot and a sexist, he's also a pedo defender.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

So it is something of a pattern then.  At least the interviewer tried to take him to task (I think, had he not been so shocked, he would have said LOL SAMPLE BASED ON SINGLE ANECDOTE).

http://www.richarddawkins.net/foundation_articles/2012/12/22/physical-versus-mental-child-abuse

This is the part which astonishes me:

...I would be interested to hear from psychologists whether there is real evidence bearing on the question.

He is a scientist. He has access to journal databases and knows how to use them. Why on earth would he make statements like this, why would he even write that post, without first looking at what the evidence shows?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

AGING HAS-BEEN D-LIST CELEBRITY JUMPS SHARK.

DETAILS AT 11.

[Junkenstein]

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/trusting-aldi-mum-to-decide-our-future-would-be-catastrophic-for-britain

Nice article covering upcoming UK elections by comparing past tropes.

There, in aisle number five, trudges the woman every politico is courting. Aldi Mum. Every general election is won by swing voters, and every general election has its own emblematic swing voter. The ones that take off become generational totems. The 1980s had Thatcher's special friend Essex Man: greedily hoovering up council houses and BT shares to become part of the shareholder-homeowner democracy. The 90s had Tony Blair's two pals: Mondeo Man and Worcester Woman: each a family-lovin' politics-indifferent nimby shaking off their working-class roots for the more anodyne middle-class frame of mind in which Tone specialised. By 2001, we had the uncomfortable spectre of Pebbledash People: balsamic and basil twats with posh driveways. And, at the last election, we were introduced to Motorway Man and Holby City Woman: possibly the dullest demographic superheroes in history.

They bolded are worth a look at on wikipedia, pretty much sums up the UK swing voter mindset to a depressing degree.

Now, all hail Aldi Mum. She is middle class. But struggling. She is the first attempt at personifying Britain's "squeezed middle", and pretty soon all the big parties will want to know her name. This weekend, Ed Miliband's shadow minister for stuff and other stuff, Caroline Flint, gave a speech at a conference in London, at which she outlined just who Aldi Mum is. She's in her forties. Stable life so far. Striver. Upwardly mobile, once upon a time. The usual fodder for vote-switching. Now, though, she's facing the scary prospect of downward mobility. She and her husband work respectable public sector jobs, but neither have had pay rises for five years. All the while, the gas company, the train company and all the rest have been turning the garrotte-wheel on their finances.

As ever, the cashflow problem manifests itself in the family fridge. Whereas once they got their little luxuries from the bouji local delicatessen, nowadays, they're reduced to doing a double-shop: buying their staples at a regular supermarket, then sweeping up a few extra treats – identified by Flint as "prosciutto and prosecco" – from the great German bucket shops, Aldi and Lidl. Though, for obvious reasons, she can't be called Lidl Woman.

I can't help but wonder if this is part of the Murdoch influence. There seems to be little in the article covering the north/south gap and voting tendencies, so it kind of misses the part where they'll be appealing to this demographic in key locations. It's not too hard to work out where they are either.

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No lulz here, that's just fucked.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/ca-sues-nv-dumping-mental-patients

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

No lulz here, that's just fucked.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/ca-sues-nv-dumping-mental-patients

That's horrifying, and absolutely barbaric.