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Tuesday Link Encyclopedia and Self-Promotion

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A fascinating post on why so many people insist they are bad at math.

“Of the 254 counties where the number of food stamp recipients doubled between 2007 and 2011, Republican candidate Mitt Romney won 213 in last year’s presidential election. . . Kentucky’s Owsley County — which backed Romney with 81 percent of its vote — had the largest proportion of food stamp recipients of all the communities where Romney won.”

“Opposition to the burqa has been massive over several European countries. Defenders of this full-body shroud specifically designed for little girls and women are in the embarrassing position of having to declare huge swathes of the population of Europe bigots.”

It is very sad to see people who were so zombified by their manipulative and abusive parents that even in adulthood they keep trying to explain why their parents were completely justified in not loving them. Pay attention to the linked post’s title. The naked masochism is terrifying.

“I saw a job ad on Craigslist recently that asked for five years of Exchange 2013 experience. Five years. For a product that’s been out for a few months. Yeah, good luck filling that one.” I don’t doubt for a moment that this is true because I happen to know quite well who is often in charge of creating job ads and just how clueless they can be.

Colleges keep building enormous stadiums that can’t be filled. There must be a psychoanalytical explanation for this weird obsession.

If these shoes don’t make you smile, I don’t know what will.

A Montrealer asks, “If such a thing as psycho-geography exists, then surely there should be a market for psycho-geographical counselling?” The answer is, yes, of course. One can definitely remove the traumatic associations with certain places through therapy. I have used it to turn “No Heaven” back to “New Haven.”

3 responses to “Tuesday Link Encyclopedia and Self-Promotion”

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    el

    Egypt bans the Muslim Brotherhood
    This includes seizing all their money and assets. Among other things, this is a humanitarian disaster: who do you think feeds many of the poor in Egypt?
    …
    One of my friends worked in Egypt, for the Mubarak regime, for a while. He’s a man with a strong stomach, but they disgusted him. His most telling observation was this: “the middle class are all fat. Obese. Everyone else is skinny.”

    I’ll be straightforward: the Muslim Brotherhood has the right to resist this violently. …
    they won the election fairly and the results of a democratic election were thrown out by a military coup. […] So I don’t want to hear hand-wringing when the bombs start going off: it is the logical consequence of what the military has done, which includes gunning down unarmed civilians in the street.
    http://www.ianwelsh.net/egypt-bans-the-muslim-brotherhood/

    If bombs begin to explode, what will be the end? 😦

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    Lindsay

    Those shoes are AMAZING!

    (I hope the “gun” making up the heel doesn’t actually have any moving parts, though.)

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    Lindsay

    And I found something people here may be interested in, if they’ve got the time to do it — it’s a (long) quiz meant to identify your regional dialect of American English.

    I live in eastern Kansas, grew up in central Iowa, and speak mostly like a Michigander.

    It will make you a beautiful map at the end. 🙂

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