Monthly Archives: January 2010
Guys: Will Your High IQ Get You Women?
Please…you’ve got to be kidding me. tulio writes in the comments section: Some women do appreciate high intelligence. That’s why my favorite type of woman is the “sexy professor” type. Brains + beauty. I learned long ago that this is … Continue reading
Filed under Gender Studies, Heterosexuality, Intelligence, Psychology, Sex, Women
War Against the People and the Historic Lalgarh Movement
From the website of the Democratic Students Union of India, we have War Against the People and the Historic Lalgarh Movement by Amit Bhattacharyya. This is an excellent article in so many ways. I urge all of my progressive minded … Continue reading
Filed under India, Left, Maoism, Marxism, Regional, Revolution, South Asia
Does a Higher IQ Make You Superior?
There’s a debate raging in the comments section about race and IQ. I’m staying out of it, but if you’re familiar with this blog, you know very well how I stand on this issue. In some ways, I feel that … Continue reading
“The Kindness of Gentlemen,” by Alpha Unit
It was early 1933. Mahatma Gandhi was in prison, fasting. Beer was made legal in the United States, eight months before the final repeal of Prohibition. Diego Rivera began a controversial mural at Rockefeller Center that included a portrait of … Continue reading
Filed under Alpha Unit, Americas, Gender Studies, Guest Posts, History, Modern, North America, Regional, US, USA, War, West
Black Response to “We Don’t Respect You”
I really enjoyed this response to We Don’t Respect You from a very pro-Black Black man who calls himself Black Thought. It’s sounds Afrocentric to me, but he says he’s not an Afrocentrist. There is an Afrocentrist who regularly comes … Continue reading
Filed under Blacks, Europeans, Race Relations, Race/Ethnicity, Sociology, Whites
Adolf Hitler, Standup Comic
Boy, that Adolf guy could really keep them rolling in the aisles, huh? That one joke right there was practically a LOLercaust! However, this clip also shows that Hitler’s comic skills were somewhat lacking. I mean, he mentioned Roosevelt and … Continue reading
Filed under Humor, War, World War 2
Female Rule Violates the Laws of Nature
In the provocatively titled The Cunts Versus the Men post, perceptive commenter Tyciol writes: Maybe a better word than feminism would be ‘equalism’ or something? Like, it’s relative to position. Women were certainly downtrodden in the past and lacking rights, … Continue reading
Mutual Intelligibility As a Scientific Concept For Dividing Language from Dialect
I have suggested previously that intelligibility testing is the best, and really the only, way to scientifically attempt to divide languages from dialects. Dividing based on intelligibility is a more scientific concept to the dialect/language concept than the sociolinguistic or … Continue reading
Filed under Dialectology, Linguistics, Sociolinguistics
Yet Another Scandinavian Intelligibility Study
We’ve reviewed several of these studies before, and this subject seems to send a lot of Scandinavians up the wall for some reason. Especially Swedes are quite insistent that Swedish and Norwegian are a single language. They get pretty furious … Continue reading
Filed under Afrikaans, Danish, Dialectology, Dutch, Frisian, Germanic, Language Families, Linguistics, Norwegian, Sociolinguistics, Swedish, West Frisian
