GODDIDIT! That’s the only explanation for two completely different animals evolving the same gene. God was pissed off about the creation/evolution debate, so he went back a few thousand years and put the same gene into both dolphins and bats. Then he was like “Mwah! Wait until I create the field of genetics and then [...]
We love cheap stuff! We love it so much that we’re perfectly willing to let people in different countries (as long as they have different coloured skin) work in places we wouldn’t even walk through – places like the ones we striked to outlaw 50 years ago, for wages that were so horrible that we [...]
I’m enjoying the outpouring of sympathy for the natural disaster in Haiti, from the entire Western world. It’s like, sure, your country was famous for its underdeveloped infrastructure and poverty and disease, but that was your fault. An earthquake that destroys hospitals full of those HIV-riddled children we didn’t give a crap about yesterday? GET [...]
The worst thing about the reporting of Harper’s prorogation is the fact that they’re calling it a “suspension.” As if they’re going to get back after the break and pick up their discarded text-books and get back to work.
It’s more like an expulsion.
Seriously, if you kid gets suspended from school she at least gets to [...]
Economic experts (ie: people who have never worked for a living, but like to talk about it a lot) are talking about what a boost to the economy lowering the minimum wage would be.
Actually, though, the argument works even better if you talk about lowering the maximum wage. Then we can hire more CEOs, at [...]
Hey! The American medical insurance scheme kills babies. Isn’t that awesome? They have actual proof! Babies! Being killed! Because they don’t have universal healthcare!
Why not? Why, it’s too expensive, of course.
Ignore the fact that it’s actually revenue neutral. You have to ignore that fact, because it’s more important that established insurance companies stay in business. [...]
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