Gillette CEO: $8 billion loss is ‘price worth paying’ over #MeToo campaign Reads the headline of a recent article in the Washington Examiner. They Tweeted the article with the following comment: “Gillette’s controversial marketing campaign targeted at the #MeToo movement cost the company $8 billion. Still, its CEO says he does not regret a thing….
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Apparently Math is racist? Headline Writing 101
According to CNN Money, Math is Racist. Wait? Math? The hyper-logical subject that we all agree (excepting philosophers) is not subjective is capable of having a racial prejudice? Sounds like a load of crap! That’s the bait. And it’s worked. By which I mean it seems to be completely ineffective. The article itself is a…
Risk-Taking and Religion Part 1
Or, Business majors find people willing to risk retinal damage for a fucking quarter He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in, because of the quantity of fish.-John 21:6, ESV…
How Chocolate Milk Epitomizes Corruption in Academia
Academia is absolutely rife with corruption, and it’s a dirty, disgusting secret I’d love to let you in on. Somewhere along the lines, a maternal authority figure should have advised you against crying over spilled milk. It’s a great little aphorism of stoicism, but in the case of an incident at the University of Maryland,…
Psychology’s Reproduciblity and Media Obliviousness
“Remember that study that found that most psychology studies were wrong?” asks Slate writer Rachel Gross. Not even, “did you hear”, but “do you remember”. There is now no longer a question as to if this matter needs explained first. It’s already common knowledge. Everybody’s read this study. If you haven’t, you’re behind. Just play…
Insecure Comedians and Ads Masquerading as Editorials
A 17-year-old kid attended some shindig and managed to grab a selfie with comedian Amy Schumer. This kid, being one of those young people always doing shit on their phone, reflexively posted the picture to his Twitter account, because he is a normal 17-year-old. In the longstanding tradition of accompanying pictures with captions, the young…
The Oregon Militia Standoff
Tl;dr version: A militia group occupied a park office to protest ranchers who were given trumped-up charges for setting controlled fires on land the feds shouldn’t own, but they forgot to bring enough food so PETA send them vegan jerky. A self-described militia organization occupied an office building at the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s…
Stop Apologizing!
Fuck you, don’t tell me what to do. It’s a free country–don’t tread on me! A comic on my Facebook feed triggered my wanting to write this, but I’ll save it for the end because it’s substantively different than what’s been irking me. This is one of those thing’s that’s floating around the aether. It…
People Say They Want to Bomb Fictional City, Keep Beating Their Wife
“30% of Republicans want to bomb the fictional town where [the Disney movie] Aladdin was set!” Republicans are so stupid, amirite? Also, 19% of Democrats apparently agreed too. But it’s all irrelevant, because none of the people polled were allowed calling out the question as fake. Scroll down to Question 38. “Would you support or…
Dumb Hicks Think We’re Going to Run Out of Sun!
People who live in the rural south are all a bunch of dumbasses, amirite? Did you hear about these stupid hicks who banned solar panels in their town because they think it will drain the sun? What a bunch of uneducated morons! Figure 1. How you are imagining the entire town in question. An article…