Jim Henley’s Bestselling “The Satisfaction of Victimhood“. Back cover blurbs wanted!  Apply below! (h/t Mike)ÂÂ
December 2007
Call for Research Volunteers [Dan Collins]
Two young women researchers are calling for a new form of sexual ethics that would allow women to have casual sex without feeling that they’re “sluts”.  Wow. That’s really avant garde. But perhaps doing away with wooing is really the key to a healthier earth: As if heartbreak, scandal, and STDs weren’t bad enough, now we have to worry about sex wrecking the whole planet. In a column for BBC News, Matt
Sean Penn Challenges Conventional Wisdom [Dan Collins]
on Kucinich. Conventional Wisdom kicks Sean Penn’s ass.ÂÂ
There, But For The Grace of God [Dan Collins]
Thank God I don’t garden.This is supposed to sound like encouragement, I presume.  It sounds like nagging, to me.ÂÂ
Good Thing Gleen’s Not a Professor [Dan Collins]
The academic world has been sceptical of Wikipedia since its launch in 2001. Now the controversial website is suspicious of academics, following a scandal in which a world-renowned computer scientist has been banned from editing the online collaborative encyclopaedia. Carl Hewitt, associate professor emeritus in electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is alleged to have disrupted Wikipedia for more than two years by using it
Test Drive the New F-22 Raptor [Dan Collins]
Rad.  XM Satellite Radio standard.Well, that link has moved, but this is pretty good.ÂÂ
“Know thyself” [Dan Collins]
but not in a Biblical way.  (γνÉθι ÃÆ’εαÅÄÌν or gnothi seauton) Through the magic of Facebook applications, I have learned the following about myself: I’m Ginger Spice.You are the spiciest Spice Girl. Although beautiful, you are the modern feminist. Capable of looking amazing in any attire you wear, yet upholding your independence and being the definitions of “girl power”. You’re Ginger Spice! Click here to find out which Spice Girl are you!! [sic]And
Bolton Spanks NPR, Nicely [Dan Collins]
Over the NIE.  This is one for the ages. But . . . but . . . but . . . I don’t see him being invited back anytime soon.ÂÂ
Blackmail Gone Awry [Dan Collins]
Heh.  This is pretty funny.  So, four guys sleep with this married woman attorney in TX, and one of the guys is quoted as saying, “”I am very ashamed.  I’m horrified.”  And checking out the photo, I . . . What?  Oh, she said that? Huh!ÂÂ
Where’s Jeff? [Dan Collins]
It has come to my attention that Jeff hasn’t posted in awhile. I was cognizant of this fact because the gift of noticing runs in my family, and also because commenters–or should I say, “complainters”–have been pointing out to me that I’m not Jeff and that, not to put too fine a point on it, I suck. De gustibus &ct is my only defence. If you don’t like it, do
