A big share of the financial burden of raising Nadya Suleman’s 14 children could fall on the shoulders of California’s taxpayers, compounding the public furor in a state already billions of dollars in the red. Even before the 33-year-old single, unemployed mother gave birth to octuplets last month, she had been caring for her six [...]
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Rules for being a soulless modern person
Rules for Being a Modern Person 1. Something else is always to blame. Good targets: gods, systems of government, other demographics that oppress you. 2. It’s all about you. 3. You must have something to contribute on every topic, and it must be ironic, unusual or a unique combination or you’re not really that interesting. [...]
More denial of reality chronicles
“It’s like pulling teeth in this market,” said Twyla Rist of Reece & Nichols Realtors in Kansas City, where prices are off between 7 percent and 15 percent. “Even with everything being said, you still have people that think my house is better than everybody else’s.” A recent Coldwell Banker report showed that more than [...]
How Feminism enslaved women
All this fear around sex made for great tension in boy-girl relationships. On the other hand, I never for a minute gave up the difficult search for a mate. I was brought up to believe, and still believe, that who you marry is the most important choice you make in life. Does that make me [...]
Why are there so few white people?
Here’s a hint — they’re polarized by gender and personal drama: Here’s Jeff from Middleburg, Florida: “I am not going to hitch my wagon to a woman . . . who is more into her abs, thighs, triceps, and plastic surgery. A woman who seems to have forgotten that she did graduate high school and [...]
Unhappy people watch more TV and the Broken Window theory
A study co-authored by a University of Maryland researcher says unhappy people watch more television. Sociologist John P. Robinson, the study’s lead author, found that people who described themselves as “not too happy” watched 5.6 hours more of TV a week, compared to their jolliest counterparts. ABC Cause and effect dilemma: is TV the cause, [...]
Disaffect underarchivers ruin UK in orgy of drunken self-hatred
When I see a lad pissing in the street, I’m too scared to say: “Oi, this is not a public toilet”. In my first year in Britain, I was foolish enough to do this, and nearly got my nose bloodied a few times for my civic behaviour. I’ve learnt my lesson now. I just turn [...]
Academics tiring of modernists, who failed to explain world coherently
Kafka is only slightly less popular than Proust — which I find surprising, since Proust would seem to have much greater snob appeal, Kafka being the emo band whose posters you plastered your walls with in high school, but who you loudly deny ever having liked once you’re a grown-up. Unfortunately I can’t easily tell [...]
Don’t be a dick
I was thinking about this on one forum I frequent. So many smart people, so much bickering. Why do they bicker? To show us all how clever they are, because they have low self-esteem because they live in a falling-apart society. Our first impulse is to say: Rule #1: Don’t be a dick. My problem [...]
