What good are minions, lackeys, and lickspittles if you fail to bring me this ring?
This Sevan Biçakçi ring is made in 24-karat gold and sterling silver with more than 3,000 hand-set multicolored diamonds, 164 hand-set seed pearls, and one South Sea baroque pearl.
Seriously, Horde, if you cannot deliver this entirely appropriate treasure to my hand within the next 24 hours, you will have to consider yourselves total failures in your role as stooges and sycophants.
There’s a meme going around the anti-feminist loons, and like their most popular memes, it makes no sense at all.
JBS Haldane is said to have responded to a question about how evolution could be disproved by saying, “A Precambrian rabbit”. What was meant by this, of course, is any substantial discovery that greatly disrupted the evidence for the chronological pattern of descent observed in Earth’s life. That pattern of descent is one of the central lines of evidence for evolution, so creationists would dearly love to find something that wrecked it — this is why they send expeditions to Africa to find a living dinosaur, Mok’ele-mbembe, or more conveniently, to Canada in search of a plesiosaur, Manipogo.
The Discovery Institute has it easy. They don’t mount expeditions, they just sit around, read scientific papers, and misinterpret them. Their latest abuse is to claim to have discovered the equivalent of a Precambrian rabbit.
Milwaukee is leading the way. They let you use public school money to attend a private school of your choice, or more likely, your choice of the terrible schools that result from a race to the bottom. The bad drives out the good.
This post exaggerates the role of women in warfare in the Middle Ages — it’s more about how graves are misidentified, that women were sometimes buried with weapons — but most interesting is that two historians weigh in in the comments, one whose specialty is studying weapons in grave goods, and another who is an expert in medieval Scandinavia. Some women may have fought, and they were definitely honored with weaponry at their funerals, but sad to say, Viking society was strongly patriarchal and discouraged women from fighting.
Maybe they don’t mean to be malicious — the worst of them are just really, really stupid. And the subset of gamers who make youtube comments are a distillation of idiocy.
Anita Sarkeesian has a collection of misogynistic, sexist messages to her.
I’m beyond being embarrassed for being male. At this point, I’m ashamed of my species.
The man who murdered Renisha McBride, the 19 year old black woman who committed the terrible crime of knocking on his door, has been found guilty of second degree murder, and sentenced to 17 years in prison. That’s a light sentence for a shotgun blast to the face of a harmless person looking for help after a car crash, but at least it was a guilty verdict.
Fox News is self-parodying. Look at who they brought on to give an informed opinion on radical Islam.
It’s a half-hour of his latest obsession, and it’s dreadful glurge that will make his fans happy, since they won’t actually think about what he’s doing. A short summary:
