The Many Rants of Larry Russwurm- Pickup Cars
- What if Average Height Keeps Increasing?
- Alternative to Affirmative Action?
- Making Sense Out of Cell Replenishment
- Has Liz II Been Cheated Out of an Era?
- Boy is My Face Red
- Liz: ‘No Fascinators at My Diamond Jubilee’
- New Improved Birth Order Theory
- The Ligh-yer Based Professions and the Unending Copyright Wars
- The Ultimate in Anti Intellectuals – Cats
Category Archives: Social Science
There is No Perfect Toy for a Cat
Cats seem to lord it over anything smaller than themselves. They kill mice, eat flies and even kill rats and rabbits. Cats are tough for their size. This seems to be true all the way up to the big cats. … Continue reading
Pickup Cars
Truck. Truck. Truck. Truck. Truck Truck. Truck. That’s how many times your average pickup truck ad describes their product as just a truck. Only once or twice in the entire piece do they use the full ‘pickup truck’ moniker. A … Continue reading
Alternative to Affirmative Action?
Philosophically, I hate affirmative action. Affirmative action is done to compensate for the prejudice that lingers in society by giving groups who are often discriminated against an advantage. Often times, women or minorities are given a better chance at getting … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Politics, Social Science, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged affirmative action, affirmative action fights unfairness with unfairness, employment, expert make up artists, free make up, government paid I-want-a-job haircuts, government paid white face, I-want-a-job haircut, long haired males face bias, Sampson!, some females might pass as male, white face for visible minorities
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New Improved Birth Order Theory
In the post All Psychologists are Lazy, I took umbrage with the state of birth order theory. I especially disliked that theory which stated 5th born children are the same as 1st born children and 6th born children are the … Continue reading
The Leap Week Calendar
Imagine that you have a birthday on a Monday. ‘Fine’ you sputter on that Monday morning ‘at least I have almost equal odds of getting a birthday on a Sunday or a Saturday’. But you’ve been hearing rumours of a … Continue reading
Posted in Mathematics, Science, Social Science, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged 5 or 6 years between leap weeks, elimination of Friday the thirteenth, Every 400 years there is a whole amount of weeks, Friday the thirteenth birthday in perpetuity, Gregorian calendar, I want my birthday on a Friday or Saturday or Sunday, leap week calendar, Monday birthday in perpetuity, start of season could be way off the 21st
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Now We Should Go After the Biggest Polygamist of Them All
Those of us who are against polygamy have had a couple victories over the last little while. Polygamist Warren Jeffs of a fundamentalist Mormon sect is now in jail in the United States. Included in his jailing was the finding … Continue reading
Famine and Cannibalism
In my news watching lifetime there have been three big famines: the Ethiopian famine of Bob Geldof fame, the Malawi famine of 2002 which was given little press, and the current Horn of Africa famine. Despite brutal circumstances and horrible … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics, Social Science, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged cannibalism, cartoon, dead had honour, developed world, developing world, Ethiopian famine, explorers, explorers quick to embrace cannibalism, Franklin expeditions cannibalism, Horn of Africa famine, Malawi famine, world's population growth is slowing
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