"Look at em, look at em, look at em!"

RIP Kevin Meaney.

It was totally worth it:

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/10/iraq-bans-booze-no-law-that-contradicts-islam-may-be-established

Parliament in Iraq has voted to ban the sale, import and production of alcohol, with backers of the move arguing that its availability contradicts Islam and is unconstitutional.

How long will it be until is considered your patriotic duty to off yourself?

A terminally ill California woman says her insurance company denied her coverage for chemotherapy treatment but offered to pay for her to kill herself, shortly after California passed a law permitting physician-assisted suicide.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/20/assisted-suicide-law-prompts-insurance-company-den/

The best gender-neutral toy ever for Christmas:

https://twitter.com/NotSkoomaPipe/status/790143673367343104

Some people are very sensitive.

https://twitter.com/GamingAndPandas/status/790401982204751872

The best gender-neutral toy ever for Christmas:

Shoot, I might buy one.

The guy behind the Twitter handle is guilty of way too much Elder Scrolls.

Sometimes, universities go too far in their efforts to manipulate the rankings. Some of the scandals O’Neil mentions were new to me. For instance, Baylor University once paid the fee for its incoming freshman to retake the SAT, so that Baylor could generate higher scores in its reporting to U.S. News. Bucknell and Claremont McKenna sent false data, inflating the SAT scores of their incoming freshmen. Iona College, in 2011, fudged numbers about test scores, acceptance and graduation rates, freshman retention, student-faculty ratio, and alumni giving. Other scandals in the chapter range from corrupt to sadly hilarious.

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2016/10/weapons-of-math-destruction-how-us-news-craven-decision-to-eschew-affordability-in-its-rankings-incr.html

IRA, I especially liked this quote from your cite:

For example, if affordability had been built in to the rankings from the beginning, Harvard and Yale likely would have been low-ranked, which would have kept the U.S. News & World Report rankings from having face validity in the early days, limiting their uptake and commercial success. Affordability had to be downplayed for the metrics to appear to match pre-existing notions of how universities ranked. Affordability measures have not been included ever since.

In other words, garbage in, garbage out.

In other overpriced college hi-jinks, is your Halloween costume scary, but in an unapproved way? Use UMass Amherst's “Simple Costume Racism Evaluation and Assessment Meter” (S.C.R.E.A.M.) to find out!

The article doesn't say which earnest souls at UMass/A were responsible for this idea, but apparently they weren't kidding. Massachusetts residents should keep in mind that in-state tuition plus room and board totals out at nearly $27K annually, while out-of-staters need to come up with a bit over $44K.

According to the web site, the joint has more than 30,000 students, so somebody must think it's worth the money.

A reminder that fifteen years after 9/11, "TSA" means "failure".

Surprise! Feminists don't like a self-confident, capable woman:

http://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2016/10/23/go-home-feminists-youre-drunk-harpies-protest-large-breasted-wonder-woman-as-honorary-ambassador/

From Rad's link: and there were reports of T.S.A. agents abandoning their posts.

Well, duh. You expect repurposed mall workers to hold the line like a Marine infantry company?

I was just informed by the TSA that they didn't abandon their posts, they simply advanced in a different direction.

Oh dang Sixclaws...thank you for posting that. I'm sure there will be a few of those under the Christmas tree at my house this year. Three daughters, three sons-in-law and three grandsons...yep, I think each household deserves/needs one.

Heh. Tell me, Kendall, exactly how many genders are there?

The Vagina Monologues is “antiquated” because it suggests “that in order to be a woman, you must have a vagina,” an American University student has claimed.

Kendall Baron, a junior and a staffer at the Women’s Initiative, criticized the famous feminist play in an email first obtained by Campus Reform. The play “represents a binary representation of gender,” she wrote redundantly.

https://heatst.com/culture-wars/colleges-reject-the-vagina-monologues-because-in-order-to-be-a-woman-you-must-have-a-vagina/

Spider carries a mouse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl6Vo0NBJPw

I would consult an employment lawyer.

A decade ago, the California National Guard offered thousands of soldiers large bonuses to reenlist and go to war. After investigations discovered fraud and mismanagement involving those payments, the Pentagon is demanding the money back, making veterans pay for the government's mistakes.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/10/23/why-the-pentagon-is-hounding-ca-veterans-for-money/?singlepage=true

According to Acculturated, a "Kickstarter-funded company, Boy Story," has started producing a series of dolls aimed at boys. The first two models off the line can be viewed here.

Quoted from the article:

Positioning themselves as the boyish alternative to the American Girl juggernaut, these boy toys are “properly proportioned, high-end dolls that each have a corresponding book about overcoming some kind of adversity.”

Because nothing says, “Fun play time!” like a story about overcoming adversity!

I guess that would depend on what said adversity was, and how it was overcome. The linked article presented no information on how the dolls are selling. I suppose some will go to collectors, anyway.

Hey, Trump might just win - after all, the Cubs are in the world series!?

Hey sixclaws, I needed a trigger warning for that one. Geeeesh.

@Stinky the Clown: does Crid know about this?

Another Clinton scandal shot to hell . . .

http://eaglerising.com/37807/real-clear-politics-explains-why-wikileaks-attack-fizzled/

Thousands of butts in the air, for all the world to see . . .

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/10/23/muslims-stage-massive-protest-chanting-allahu-akbar-outside-romes-colosseum/