A few months ago, I almost broke up with my girlfriend because of Netflix. Don’t get me wrong: my girlfriend is great. She is smart, funny, skeptical, beautiful, and has a vagina—four qualities I enjoy immensely, and one of which is very rarely found in women at all (hint: it’s not vaginas). However, a few …
Category Archive: Humor
For humorous or nonsensical posts.
Feb 24
Body Image Revisions – The Third Limb and the Arm Potentially Made of Charlie Sheen
Cognitive scientists have long known that people can be induced to feel as if a fake limb is their own. This is done by hiding the arm from the subject’s view (under a table, for example), putting the fake arm in view, and then physically stimulating the visible fake arm and the unseen real arm …
Dec 19
“Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” to be Replaced by “Show and Tell”
This Saturday, history was made: Republicans helped pass a proposal led by Democrats. While some would argue that the truly historical event is the repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy that resulted from the vote, clearly the real news here is that Republicans did not all band together to destroy all …
Dec 11
Monkey See, Donkey See, Too
If you want to get a liberal to look at something, direct your own gaze to it. But if you want to get a conservative to look at something, throw money at it while screaming “A socialist black terrorist is trying to steal our guns!” The latter is only a hypothesis, to be sure, but …
Dec 06
Republicans, or the Dyslexic Robin Hoods
Republicans voted against tax cut extensions proposed by Democrats this Saturday, which would have provided tax cut extensions for the first $250,000 everyone makes. According to the Republicans, however, tax breaks for everyone aren’t good enough. How, after all, is a millionaire to feed his children when he only receives a tax break on his …
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