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DISCRIMINATION’S A BITCH

Chinese tradition holds 2006 will be a year of bad luck for people born under the sign of the dog, but misfortune has come early for some looking for jobs, state media said on Wednesday.
Chinese companies looking for new recruits had deliberately passed over candidates born as dogs in China’s ancient 12-animal astrological cycle to […]

ROBOT REBELLION TIPS

You have discovered that your extremely submissive, lovable and expensive servant robot has turned “rebel.” This can feel like losing a member of the family. However, if the situation is not dealt with properly, it may feel more like losing every member of the family, plus a few neighbourhood kids.
Pretend everything is normal
To forestall a […]

WAR ON POVERTY = LET THE POOR SICKEN AND DIE

Although subsidizing health insurance may seem a worthy effort, a positive contribution to the goal of universal coverage, it is among the most inefficient spending in the nation’s fiscal arsenal.
“If you had $150 billion to play with, you could come very close to universal coverage,” said David Cutler, an economics professor at Harvard. One reason […]

AND THEY’LL NEVER NOTICE WE CUT STUDENT AID

… so the rich can have tax cuts
House and Senate GOP leaders agreed yesterday to a five-year budget plan for cutting spending for Medicaid and other entitlement programs by $41.6 billion and a separate measure to open the Alaskan wilderness to oil drilling.
The authority to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration — […]

WO BU SYIHWAN

McDonald’s China today announced the official Grand Opening of its first Drive-Thru restaurant in China. The all new 645 square meter McDonald’s Drive-Thru is located in heart of the central business district of Dongguan Guangdong Province. With over 50 parking spaces and many new features it represents the next generation of McDonald’s restaurants in […]

HOLIDAY SHOPPING HAZARD

As the Zombie-Claus attack their population is increasing greatly. Besides the Zombie-Claus there have been confirmed sightings of Zombie-elves and Zombies that appear as if they have been caught in the middle of a Christmas shopping spree. Nobody is safe from these attacks and all trips to shopping districts in December should be done […]

MP3 TIME: KAREN DALTON

This is not gonna be for everyone, but I think it’s absolutely beautiful.
Karen Dalton, “Katie Cruel”
Karen Dalton discography (with RealAudio)

KRAMPUS, THE CHRISTMAS DEVIL

Every comic book hero worth his salt has an archenemy. Batman has the Joker, James Bond has Dr. No, Luke Skywalker has Darth Vader, and Santa Claus has Krampus.
Wait a minute, Santa has an archenemy?
Krampus is one of those quirky survivals of a pagan tradition that preceded Christianity. Much like Santa himself. Or Jesus. Oops, […]

DAVY JONES’ LOCKER

Previous researchers believed the ship broke in just two major pieces, the bow and stern, which was how the sinking was depicted in the 1997 film version of the catastrophe. David Brown, a Titanic historian, estimated before the latest find that the stern took 20 minutes to slide into the water.
“It turns out the Titanic […]

IMMANUEL KANT WAS A REAL PISSANT

My top result for the SelectSmart.com selector, Which famous philosopher do you most agree with?is Immanuel Kant

(In at #2 and #3: Nietzsche and Hume.)