Science gets into some pretty interesting stuff. One wonders if the authors of this paper, when they took that first BIO-101 survey course, knew that they would someday be trained professionals watching videotapes of Belgian women walking down the street, then guessing about their history of vaginal orgasm.In the sample of healthy young Belgian women (half of whom were vaginally orgasmic), history of vaginal orgasm (triggered solely by penile-vaginal intercourse) was diagnosable at far better than chance level (81.25% correct, Fisher's Exact Test P < 0.05) by appropriately trained sexologists. …
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This is odd:A Toronto man has been charged with explosives and weapons offences in what police are calling a G20-related arrest.Police searched a house just after noon on Tuesday at 58 Elderwood Dr., in Toronto's Forest Hill neighbourhood.Byron Sonne, 37, was charged with intimidation of a justice system participant by threat, intimidation of justice system participant by watch and beset, mischief, attempted mischief, possession of explosives for an unlawful purpose and possession of dangerous weapons.And this is odder. A Google Image search for "Byron Sonne" comes up with this:Byron Sonne. …
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This week those uncomfortable with the Encroaching Dusky Hordes had great fun dancing on the corpse of Aqsa Parvez. She was the young woman murdered by her father, Muhammad Parvez, and her brother, Waqas, in a "honour killing"; a 16 year-old kid who tried to enjoy the freedom she saw all around her, killed because her family brought with them the values of the Pakistani village they immigrated from in 1999. She had "shamed" them, and they murdered her. Based on quality of evidence, the Crown attorneys accepted guilty pleas to second-degree murder, which brings an automatic life sentence, and …
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There is a very real possibility that Karla Homolka, one of Canada's most notorious serial killers, may be hired to play Santa Claus between November 15th and December 24th at the Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa this year.Now, murderess Homolka herself has not explicitly confirmed her intention of applying for the job of Bayshore Santa. Nor has the Bayshore Shopping Centre indicated in any concrete way that they intend hire her, should she submit an application for the position.But can Canadians afford to wait? Are we willing to leave the ball in her court?Let's just assume she DID apply. …
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For cutting edge international analysis, I always turn to bloggers who think the Taliban are Arabs and who are confused about the difference between Japanese and Chinese.Don't you?cross posted from Stageleft …
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Jay Currie, that ambulatory laboratory of scientific rigour, poses the question: "Just how dead is CAGW?" And of course answers it: "The extremities are still twitching…but the Global Warming canard is in terminal decline."Well, you can imagine how eagerly I followed his link to the Bayonet ("Skewering the Clueless!" GET IT? SKEWERING?) to witness this historic debunking. I'm wondering if maybe Jay linked to the wrong page, though. Because I didn't find much science there at all. What I found was:Multiple links mocking Al Gore, focusing on his house, his recent separation, and his j-date …
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The anti-Muslim movement is a curious blend of old-fashioned racism, naive nativism, fear, and the brute, thuggish rage that infects a diseased minority in every generation and finds its scapegoat in every culture. Because it's irrational to its core, it shuns reasoned discussion, which it dismisses as weakness or "appeasement". Instead, it relies on theatre and crude sloganeering (Not All Terrorists Are Muslim, But All Muslims Are Terrorists!!) to make its "points".One of the most recent flashpoints for these racist rage-junkies is the "plan" to build a "Mega Mosque" on the site of Ground …
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Some of my favourite online propagandists are ennobling themselves and each other these days with the heroic sobriquet "Citizen Journalists". While it does sound much better than "blogger", "gossip" or "asshole", it's not always accurate. In fact, the term seems to be used most commonly by folks who don't have a clue what "journalism" - or "citizenship", for that matter - actually mean.There's no universally agreed-upon definition of what a "journalist" is - I'm sure the propagandists who toe the Communist Party line for Xinhua in China or the former staff of Pravda consider themselves to be …
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As the readership will recall, last week Arnie Lemaire (aka Blazing Cat Fur, aka the Dimmer Shaidle) was subjected to a horrific assault when some guy crossed the street and spoke sharply to him.Despite the shock and horror this appalling jaywalking elicited among the SKABBs (the Saturday Kaffeeklatsch and Ay-rab Bashing Brigade), no charges have been laid.I noted with amusement that Arnie got precisely what he went looking for - that the entire point of the SKABBS is to piss off Muslims week after week, taunt them into a display of anger, then scuttle home delightedly, en masse, and post the …
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The Saturday Kaffeeklatsch and Ay-Rab Baiters' Brigade (that's the SKABBs) want you all to know they had a delightful weekend.If you're unfamiliar with the SKABBs, let me introduce you. They're the group of aging Muslim-haters in Toronto who like to head downtown on weekends to taunt brown folks. Their little outings all follow pretty much the same agenda.a) Load up the video cameras, banners, and paper-maché cruise missilesb) Go find a bunch of Muslims- at a parade, or a demonstration, or even a quiet social celebration in a park.c) Taunt them. Yell at them. Brandish your camera in their …
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