Showing posts with label misc. Show all posts
Showing posts with label misc. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Science and shopping

Why (most) women like to shop - msnbc.com

In a new study, researchers propose that our mall-visiting behaviors harken back to the days when men hunted and women foraged.

Modern men, for example, generally want to get into a store and get right back out — just like their hunting forefathers wanted to find and bring meat home as quickly as possible. On the other hand, women get back to their foraging roots by sorting through racks of sweaters on sale — as if scanning plants for signs of ripeness.


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It's not me - it's you

WSJ: Failure of Liberal Governance:

The political retirement of Evan Bayh, at age 54, is being portrayed by various sages as a result of too much partisanship, or the Senate's dysfunction, or even the systemic breakdown of American governance. Most of this is rationalization. The real story, of which Mr. Bayh's frustration is merely the latest sign, is the failure once again of liberal governance.

H/T: The Corner

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Blog spotlight gets impersonator arrested

When I first read about this I thought for sure it was a hoax -- nobody could really be this retarded democrat.

I'm not sure what to hope for here: some guy with a mental illness or that we have people living in America that might think this would be a funny stunt.

CDR Salamander: BG McSoulpatch arrested by FBI