Jan
11

You be the Judge — Quick! Which One is the Mom?

nolanimrod on January 11th, 2012

I was turned on to this by Fausta and then found it by fol­low­ing links pur­suant to her BlogHer con­nec­tions. At first it just seemed a 15-​​minute fame deal (how to get on the Today show) but then I noticed that with­out cap­tions I couldn’t tell mom from her daugh­ter. They used to do dish deter­gent com­mer­cials like this about not being able to tell the mother from the daugh­ter but those were HANDS. There are the whole bodies.

Really — can you tell? Hey, Mom! If you’re com­pet­ing with your daugh­ter why not put your pic­ture up too?

Mom! Leave Those Kids Alone!

 

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This is one more exam­ple of why South Park is the country’s most pop­u­lar replace­ment for Life Mag­a­zine.

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Jan
10

Probably the Only Time the French and the Germans Have Agreed On Anything

nolanimrod on January 10th, 2012

(other than the notion that they should run Europe)

French and Germans spell "saffron" the same way

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Dec
21

Had Benedict Arnold Been a Homosexual or a Muslim Would He Be In Command in Today’s Diverse Army?

nolanimrod on December 21st, 2011

Spe­cial­ist Jir­leah Show­man knew Pfc. Bradley Man­ning had seri­ous men­tal health issues and didn’t belong in the Army, even before he sud­denly hauled off and punched her in the intel­li­gence cen­ter where they both worked in Iraq–an inci­dent which came in May 2010, just a cou­ple of weeks before Man­ning was arrested for allegedly leak­ing thou­sands of mil­i­tary reports and diplo­matic cables to WikiLeaks.

“He.…punched me in the face unpro­voked and dis­played uncon­trol­lable behav­ior that was deemed untrust­wor­thy,” Show­man said Tues­day dur­ing a pre­lim­i­nary hear­ing to deter­mine whether Man­ning should face a court mar­tial in con­nec­tion with the leaks.

Is there any pat­tern of strange and dan­ger­ous behav­ior that won’t be tol­er­ated in Gen­eral Casey’s New Diverse Army?

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Dec
15

People of Smart-​​Set Mart

nolanimrod on December 15th, 2011

An Atlantic piece on Brazil­ian Wax Jobs bares all with this lit­tle hooded nugget:

Then, in 2000, one ground­break­ing episode of Sex And The City made the Manolo Blah­nik demo­graphic sit up and take notice: Hero­ine Car­rie Brad­shaw found a new swag­ger in her step after wax­ing it off. And once Car­rie was bare down there … well, remem­ber when the Sex And The City girls ate cup­cakes? Let’s put it this way: There’s now a cup­cake bak­ery on every other cor­ner in upper Manhattan.

Yup. A TV sit­com about four neu­rotic losers (but, let it be noted, losers “in the City”) has them eat cup­cakes and the big news flash instan­ta­neously jumps across the brains of the New York Times read­er­ship:  Abjure the Arugula! Nix the Nou­velle! Shun the Sushi!

It’s Cup­cakes All Around!

So the next time you read some­thing in the Times, maybe a thought­ful exe­ge­sis of some­thing by Paul Krug­man (some­thing you thought you under­stood until he explained it to you) that sounds like a rant by South Park’s Cart­man just con­sider for whom he is writ­ing it.

Because fash­ion isn’t what one wears. Fash­ion is what one is.

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