As if Corinne Didn't Have Enough Reason to Hate Rap

I present to you (in linkage form, because embedding youtube videos is so lame) MC Karl Rove.

"He can't be beat, he's so white from his head to his feet."

Truer words have never been spoken. You can't keep a good cracka down.

Via, the always fun poplicks.

Seven Months Later...

So, I've drank more Coca-Cola products than PepsiCo. brand, but I blame cherry flavouring for that. But PepsiCo. is the better company.

I have yet to be asked if I wanted to be on a test circuit for PD-1 suppressants, but I have learned that foreskin increases men's chances of HIV infection, and may lower a woman's odds. There's another argument for male genital mutilation for mysogynists to use. That, my friends, is called "irony".

Special juvenille bonus: The director of the World Health Organization's AIDS department is named Dr. Kevin De Cock.

The Crane Wife rose to the top of my favourite albums of 2006, but in doing so also put Decemberists fans at the bottom of my favourite list of 2006. How did they manage to get into the high schools? We must ban mixed tapes, CDs and iPods immediately to prevent good music from falling into immature hands! [/curmudgeon]

Another argument against the glass ceiling was released at some point in the past month: Boys are just as good at quitting as women. Take that Human Resources Departments! Equality in job hating! We have to start somewhere.

This link argues, or at least gives the argument that Babyboomers really suck.

The argument has two distinct parts:
1) They are largely responsible for the excessive consumption of our current culture, and thus the destruction of the environment.
2) The free-sex and experimentation that they practiced broke down the sense of respect and social norms, causing the degeneration of society.


It's odd to see one paper arguing both from the left and right for the same point. I largely agree with the first argument, but the second one reeks of fear and social conservatism. It was just funny to see in the same plave. I guess noone likes the poor bastards.

For Corinne

Looks the libertarian revolution is dead.

Corinne and I have had an ongoing discussion over the year about a mutually hated political foe, that of libertarianism. It seems to me that every person I have come across (with one exception, and since he's someone I have only talked to online he doesn't count as real) that argues for libertarian governance is either bat-shit crazy or intellectually lazy. So while it's nice to see it go, I'm not clear that it's heir apparent, big-government conservatism which sometimes pretends to be libertarian is philosophy, is a good replacement.

The Battle for Cola Supremecy Has Been Won

After decades of battling it out for my loyalty, PepsiCo. Inc. has won my alliegence (as best as any soft-drink manufacturer can), by simply making itself a minority. With Ms. Nooyi coming in as the eleventh (that's a one preceded by another one) female CEO of a Fortune 500 company, it's no wonder women are feeling the sting of the idea of an imaginary glass ceiling.

Those who know me, know that I know that there are external forces that keep the glass ceiling in place that don't involve the oppressive man, but I'm finding startling (but not surprising) that women only account for just over 16% of corporate officers. Sure, lots of women opt to take a year off to make a baby or two and that makes our whole gender economically unreliable in the grand scheme of things (especially if they fall in love with pukeypookie and opt to stay home foreva!), but is there not a viable solution for investing in women in the workplace to allow for the possibility of trusting career-minded women? I'm seriously doubting that the mere admission that a woman does not want to pass a baby through her loins is ever taken seriously (speaking from my own experience: very few people on this planet take me seriously).

Back on topic about how I'll drink PepsiCo. Inc. products:

I realize that this is not exactly a difficult choice as I prefer Aquafina over salted Dasani and the rest of the sugary water all tastes the same to me, but now I'm going to make a concerted effort to support PepsiCo. Inc and their choice to appoint a woman in the seas of men.