Kissy & cuddly.

Blind people do this all the time, and really intrusive.

That look on Mom's face at the end says: 'Enjoy that nap now, Mister... Because you are SOOOO getting laid tonight.'

Hey guys! Did I write about this on this very blog ten years ago?

Yes! Yes I did... at July 9, 2007 12:47 PM.

An infographic on colon cleansing for that special time (NSFW):

https://mobile.twitter.com/BlindJaw/status/871170525598408704

Holy Moly!

Because the computerized "inter-net" is a magical realm of info-sharing and copyright violation, the Scientific American article from twenty years ago which I mentioned ten years ago is now available for us to enjoy "online," as the kids say.

What a great time to be alive... And what a great time to be inclined to enjoy media you haven't paid for...

Here's an interesting vocal arrangement.

Seriously, you gotta follow that 'online' link:

An investigation by one of us (Lenhoff) suggests that Williams people were the inspiration for some age-old folktales about elves, pixies and other “wee people” [see box on page 73].

The large pointed ears so often associated with fairies may symbolically represent the sensitivity of those mythical individuals —and of Williams people— to music and to sound in general.

Brilliant piece: "Breaking Up With Mr. Islam"

http://sultanknish.blogspot.ca/2017/06/breaking-up-with-mr-islam.html

Re: Blind person thing. You never see a girl offering that with her boobs.

This never gets old:

http://2damnfunny.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Dat-Lip-Bite-On-Reporter-Interviewing-Some-Bodybuilding-Competititon-Winner.gif

The guy got an Emmy for being the best jihadist on TV:

London Bridge attack suspect 'appeared in Channel 4 documentary about British jihadis'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-bridge-attack-suspect-channel-4-documentary-british-jihadis-uk-borough-market-stabbing-a7772986.html

Rhetorical question: how did he manage to avoid the "authorities"?

#HigherEducationApocolypse: Girl writes essay about how much she likes Papa John's pizza. Said essay gets her admitted to Yale.

Her reply: "No thanks, I'd rather go to Auburn.

Polimath at his very best.

> Brilliant piece:

It's pornography.

What does "show him the door" even mean?

This is the sound of Raddy quivering with glee:

'Heeth a thucksethful BITHNITHMAN!'

Again, why do people vote for these creeps?

https://mobile.twitter.com/stillgray/status/871588060567281664

This piece says more about the woman writing it than the white women she's writing about.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/aishamirza/until-white-women-ruined-it?utm_term=.iwWYgz0B5#.febqKQ5LO

Schrodinger's fine China

https://mobile.twitter.com/Spyder_Webb/status/871461504197046272

Sixclaws, if you mean the politicians shouldn't be making an exception for Muslims, you're absolutely right.

But if you're complaining about government's right to remove teens in the first place, yes, it's a slippery slope...BUT, if the teen is showing suicidal tendencies because of the parents' opposition to the teen's LGBT qualities, then clearly, an actual life is at stake.

It's no secret by now that not only do LGBT teens have higher rates of suicide; the rate goes way up if the PARENTS are hostile to LGBT people.

This piece says more about the woman writing it than the white women she's writing about.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/aishamirza/until-white-women-ruined-it?utm_term=.iwWYgz0B5#.febqKQ5LO

N at June 5, 2017 12:01 PM

Sure, but maybe that was her intention?

And if what you mean is that she comes across as angry, well, how do you know she hasn't had plenty of incentives in her life to BE angry? She's non-white AND gay, after all; think she hasn't had to deal with more than a little unjustified hate and fear as a result? I'd be pretty surprised if she hasn't.

Defintively the first one.

Let's not forget that this isn't the first time a tentacle of the governmental machinery (different nation, same BS) thought it was okay for certain protected sectors to be homophobic:

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/12/netherlands-government-funded-watchdog-says-its-ok-for-muslims-to-send-death-threats-to-gays

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/06/05/530922642/in-texas-abstinence-only-programs-may-contribute-to-teen-pregnancies

Excerpts:

...Traditionally, the two variables most commonly associated with high teen birth rates are education and poverty, but a new study co-authored by Dr. Julie DeCesare, of the University of Florida's OB-GYN residency program in Pensacola, shows that there's more at play.

"We controlled for poverty as a variable, and we found these 10 centers where their teen birth rates were much higher than would be predicted," she says.

DeCesare, whose research appears in the June issue of the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, says several of those clusters were in Texas. The Dallas and San Antonio areas, for example, had teen pregnancy rates 50 percent and 40 percent above the national average.

Research shows teens everywhere are having sex, with about half of high school students saying they've had sexual intercourse. Gwen Daverth, CEO of the Texas Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, says the high numbers in Texas reflect policy, not promiscuity.

"What we see is there are not supports in place," Daverth says. "We're not connecting high-risk youth with contraception services. And we're not supporting youth in making decisions to be abstinent." The state needs to emulate more progressive policies found in other states, she says.

For years, California has invested in comprehensive sex education and access to contraception, Daverth says. There, the teenage birth rate dropped by 74 percent from 1991 to 2012. The teen birth rate in Texas also fell, but only by 56 percent.

In South Carolina, young women on Medicaid who have babies are offered the opportunity to get a long-acting form of birth control right after they give birth. They're also trying that approach in parts of North Carolina. And Colorado subsidizes the cost of long-acting birth control. There, both abortions and teen birth rates are dropping faster than the national average...

(snip)

> if you mean the politicians
> shouldn't be making an exception
> for Muslims, you're absolutely
> right.

For some of us, the inanity of the Muslim exception indicts the entire enterprise: A government so clumsy in its approach to the most intimate family matters is never going to do less harm than good. And the problem being described is intensely private, perhaps as confidential as anything in human affairs.

Those who'd support (if not sponsor) such measures nonetheless move first to the most heart-wrenching, outrage-inducing scenario imaginable as the new government powers are described.

Why? Why must it always be the hammer of irresistible government authority that resolves these problems?... Especially when 95% of cases are more likely to consist of a single sullen family dinner, or a month of grim faces passing in the hallway to the kitchen?

I'll tell you why: Because it's fun to imagine that one's most piquant beliefs about such unpleasantness can be ennobled through power over the lives of distant people.




But they cannot. If you aren't going to personally watch over the court authorizations and the police/agency executions of these removals in your own community, you have no business supporting them. The opportunities for atrocity are simply too high.

Canada's lefty impulses have failed her in this regard before, with almost incalculable devastation: Go to Google and enter "Sixties Scoop."

Such nuanced kindness is not the work of government, especially if that "warmth" is to be withheld from some on the basis of faith.

Alright, that was a fuckin' GREAT blog comment. Give me love.

And, just a few reminders, re my last post:

It's one thing to tell teens, as parents probably last did in the 18th century: "Abstain until age 16, at which time we will force you into a merger with some stranger anyway." It's quite another to say "abstain until marriage or death, whichever comes first, because you have no right to privacy and/or happiness even after you've lived on your own for 20 years or more." Or: "If you abstain, you're guaranteed a Prince/Princess Charming before age 30 - AND one who will never dump you."

Not to mention that the only young men (ever since the late 1970s) that I can imagine having their hearts set on virgin brides - IF the men want to marry in the first place, which plenty don't - are either super-religious virgin teens who are somehow willing and financially able to marry before age 21, or else they're sexist jerks who see nothing wrong with expecting higher standards in someone else than they've set for themselves.

After all, anyone, male or female, who can't afford to marry before age 25 (often because that person is still in school of some kind) but who has never had sex by that age is very likely asexual, gay, or very unpopular. This explains why, rumor has it, young men are AFRAID of marrying virgins. (Not to mention that men pushing 30 are not that attractive as potential husbands, per se, to women under 21 - and even if that weren't the case, hardly anyone still thinks it's fair to expect anyone under 21 to be completely ready to say "until death do us part," despite the law's allowing 18-year-olds to marry without parental consent.)

"Estimated Median Age of First Marriage by Gender: 1890 to 2015"

https://www.thespruce.com/estimated-median-age-marriage-2303878

1980 --- (men)24.7 --- (women)22.0

2015 ---- 29.2 ----27.1

This is missing one of those silent movie police chase piano musics.

https://mobile.twitter.com/polNewsForever/status/871399902315778050/video/1

Fight capitalism in three delicious flavours:
ChocoChavez, Socialist Cherry, and Cuban Banana.

https://mobile.twitter.com/BevHillsAntifa/status/871450347570552832

Lenona,

I've both travelled enough and am old enough to know such ignorance and rudeness is plenty universal across cultures for anyone different. At some point, she's choosing to be angry about everything including the yoga mat. Most of my friends (white and other shades, straight and gay) have dealt with both fear and unjustified hate, she's not as special as she thinks she is and her thoughts are destructive for her. If encouraged universally, it is destructive for the larger culture. I do hope writing the article offers some catharsis but she should talk to someone about her issues.

Anyway, I thought it was interesting enough to share.

-N

N - Yes, it was interesting, especially since it was a good reminder of how racism committed by whites is often expressed "politely" and/or nonverbally and why anyone who does that needs to stop if that person seriously expects to be thought of as non-racist. Not using profanity and not yelling are not good enough. Even a condescending tone of voice in a face-to-face encounter is unacceptable.

Yes, maybe she's reading too much into her daily interactions with at least some of the people she gets angry at - but we can't be sure.

It appears as though Netflix has removed a documentary​ called "The Jihadis next door" following news that one of the London Bridge attackers was featured inside the documentary. The documentary was available for streaming as seen here previously on Netflix.

https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/6fhtya/censorship_netflix_removes_documentary_the/

Link on the Youtube documentary inside. Better get it before it gets taken down too.