Archive for the 'scare tactics' Category

Struggling just makes it worse – the nature of rape

Unlike Rob over at To the People, I think this is great: PALMDALE, Calif. — Schoolteacher Shana Richey misses the playroom she decorated with Glamour Girl decals for her daughters. Fireman Jay Fernandez misses the custom putting green he installed in his backyard. But ever since they quit paying their mortgages and walked away from [...]

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Movie Review: Teeth (2007)

Seriously, the world needed a horror flick about Vagina Dentata.  Teeth is that movie. I’ve mentioned Vagina Dentata before and it should come as no surprise that I found this movie to be a gold-mine of vagina-related jokes.  Truly, the world has been waiting for a movie about a cooter with the disposition of a [...]

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You just wait, it’ll be like a global enema

August is Vaccine Awareness Month: The recent H1N1 pandemic and efforts to stem the tide of infection through vaccination is a great opportunity to teach the public about the importance and potential of vaccines. Instead I am seeing a wave of anti-vaccine misinformation. Some of it, I think (I can’t really know) is just lazy [...]

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An interesting surprise!

Recommended: Where There Is No Doctor The book can be viewed by chapter or downloaded for free here, and if one finds it useful enough it is also available for purchase in print on the same page. Don’t be put off by it’s apparent lack of “sophistication”, it’s village medicine orientation, or it’s occasional foray [...]

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Those Damned Kids, Part One

Why are Movies So Bad? or The Numbers: 6. There is an even grimmer side to all this: because the studios have discovered how to take the risk out of moviemaking, they don’t want to make any movies that they can’t protect themselves on. Production and advertising costs have gone so high that there is [...]

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let yourself fill with rage

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Lettuce does not a salad make

Libertarian Republicans support Nikki Haley for Governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley is the leading contender for the GOP nomination for Governor of South Carolina, 2010. (Mark Sanford will be finishing his term). She is a strong fiscal conservative. And she’s even been the featured speaker at various SC Tea Party rallies. She is a [...]

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Huh?

Sarah Palin resigns: Sean Parnell to take Alaska Governorship end of the month: Alaska is trading one Libertarian Republican governor for another. In a stunning political announcement Sarah Palin said at a press conference in front of her home in Wasilla, that she would not seek reelection. Further, she stated that she would resign her [...]

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Fatties

Yes, these are a bit old. Yes, I have been incredibly busy and unable to post. Suck it. First, from May 15th, Fattie gets all upset because her yearbook signature page said the truth: “I just feel like sitting in my room and crying,” said freshman Marie Gray. “I don’t feel like doing anything.” Marie [...]

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Cougars

17 Young Men Dead In ‘Horrific’ Downtown Cougar Attack Police said 17 men, ages 21 to 28, were killed in a horrendous cougar attack early Sunday morning in Richmond’s Shockoe Slip. The matured cats appear to have migrated into the city from the suburbs, targeting dozens of attractive and mostly intoxicated young men. Richmond Police [...]

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