Disturbing South Carolinian Search Requests Yah…

Disturbing South Carolinian Search Requests

Yahoo! Search Results for SOUTH CAROLINA COUPLE SEX SWAP MEETS

I particularly love the plural. They need more than one “sex swap meet”. Or whatever they’re looking for. I don’t really want to know.

NYPOST.COM National News: TENNIS HOAX IS ‘STUNNING…

NYPOST.COM National News: TENNIS HOAX IS ‘STUNNING’ By MARC BERMAN and GERSH KUNTZMAN

A lot of you probably heard about this. Sports Illustrated ran a prank story about a ficticious female Russian tennis player. It was an obvious joke, really from the beginning. (Her name was supposedly “Simonya”, as in S1m0ne.) But the Women’s Tennis Association is all upset at SI and the author, Jon Wertheim for making fun of their sport and insinuating that the WTA really wants an infusion of sex to promote. Of course, the WTA does use sex to sell the game, but they like to deny it.

You know what’s most ridiculous? Wertheim has promoted tennis an awful lot, and is one of the sport’s more visible writers. Getting five pages — even five pages of a joke — into Sports Illustrated seems good for the game. To me, anyway.

Holocaust denier Irving spoke in Cleveland suburb …

Holocaust denier Irving spoke in Cleveland suburb

Internationally famous slimebag David Irving spoke to a group of local slimebags near Cleveland August 25. I ask you, why is it that if England can keep Louis Farrakhan out, we can’t return the favor with the loathsome Irving?

Scientist claims to block gravity Suuuuure. …

Scientist claims to block gravity

Suuuuure.

This is actually the same “science” I made fun of NASA funding a few weeks ago. And the article — more a column, really — is actually quite sarcastic about it. Good job.

The Unbelievers Roundup of various insane Sept….

The Unbelievers

Roundup of various insane Sept. 11 conspiracy theories. The accused: Bush, the CIA, Jews (of course), the Swiss, Big Oil. Conspiracy theorists are morons, but they’re also offensive.

Multilevel Marketing in Immigrant Communities M…

Multilevel Marketing in Immigrant Communities

Multilevel Marketing = Pyramid Scheme. Just to make that clear. Apparently, they’re prospering among Asian immigrants on the West Coast.

ESPN.com - Page2 - NOW is NOT the time ESPN’s n…

ESPN.com - Page2 - NOW is NOT the time

ESPN’s new columnist Jason Whitlock appears to be particularly clueless, even for a sportswriter. Whitlock (who is African American) apparently feels that while racism is really bad, sexism is only mildly offensive, a PG-13 type sin. And therefore, while it was important to integrate Augusta National racially, integrating it sexually isn’t a pressing need.

[African-Americans] just don’t want powerful people who never take the time to get to know us gathering together and making decisions that could impact our lives. The best way we know how to combat that problem is by sending in a token or two.

But women, heck, they’re flighty and need important decisions made for them.

I’m not going accuse him of not even knowing that the National Organization of Women is not organizing the efforts against Augusta National, since he presumably didn’t write the headline. So his editor is clueless as well.

Whitlock’s colleague Jim Caple is content to make fun of Hootie Johnson’s name.

CNN.com - Couple try to name baby bin Laden - Sept…

CNN.com - Couple try to name baby bin Laden - September 5, 2002

I honestly don’t know what’s worse. You have a couple of Turkish extraction, living in Germany who want to name their child “Osama bin Laden”. And yet, I’m on their side, because of one of Germany’s insane nanny-state Eurolaws:

Names can only be registered in Germany if they fulfil certain criteria. A name must clearly identify the child’s gender and must not ridicule the child or be offensive.

Speaking as someone who’s spent days of his life spelling his first name and assuring people that it is his first name… That’s just ridiculous. I understand that they don’t want people naming their kids “Adolf Hitler Schmidt”, but this is really the government interfering where it doesn’t belong.

Guardian Unlimited | World Latest | Pakistanis Pro…

Guardian Unlimited | World Latest | Pakistanis Protest al-Qaida Hunt

Yeah, that’s just great, guys! They’re running all over your country, killing foreigners and native Christians. And I guess that makes you happy.

WHY IS RACISM BAD AND SEXISM OK? Dilan Esper on…

WHY IS RACISM BAD AND SEXISM OK?

Dilan Esper on the Masters:

I think there is something deeper than this. We have certainly become a less sexist society now than we were. But traditional gender roles have had more staying power in society than traditional racial roles, which seem to be relegated to the presence of a black bellhop at a fancy hotel (a sight I always wince at when I see it). There are a lot of people who have learned not to say so many sexist things, and maybe to accept women in their workplace, but who still believe, perhaps for religious reasons, or perhaps simply because they long for a more patriarchal society, that women shouldn’t occupy the new roles that they have been permitted. Whatever the reason, it is extremely troubling– after all, there is no better reason that the rich males of Georgia ought to be able to exclude women from the social fora at which they make their business deals than there would be for the rich whites of Georgia to exclude blacks from those same fora. Yet I have a feeling the rich males are going to get away with it.