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The Curse of the Lying Dutchman

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Here, folks, is a good reason to treat research into social and psychological matters with great skepticism.

We all know that there are tricky ways of lying about these things by applying user-defined definitions that differ markedly from the conventional definitions, or by using hand-picked rather than randomly chosen groups of subjects, but when academics are lazy they don’t even bother with these tactics – they just make shit up.

This is what tulip-picking psychologist Diederik Stapel did. Why bother going out and asking people what they think? Why waste time carrying out fancy experiments? Just make up some figures and then get into a snit every time someone asks to see the actual research! That way you can claim that white people are more likely to discriminate against black people when in messy environments, that the very thought of eating meat makes you selfish, and that people see job applicants as more competent if they have a “male voice”, and few will be inclined to ask what you’ve been smoking.

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Criminalizing Dumbassery

Criminalizing Dumbassery published on

Last month, wannabe model Rebecca Leigh Crimmins got on the piss and decided to do something a judge later referred to as “disgusting and abhorrent.”

So what did the blonde inebriate do? Did she take a dump on a nun? Did she feed Amy Winehouse’s carcass to the Queen’s corgis? No, she wetted a tampon in cordial, then – I can barely bring myself to describe it – repeatedly dabbed a McDonald’s worker on the hand while claiming she had found it in her fries!

This unprecedented atrocity resulted in a charge of common assault and sixty days of community service, presumably checking boxes of fries for stray tampons. There was a time – a saner time – when a mere apology would do, but not now. Now you can actually go to jail for such actions. How anyone can see such a harmless prank as an assault is beyond my simple intellect. No harm was done, the tampon wasn’t wet from blood so the grossout factor is greatly minimized and the potential for infection is non-existent, yet this could have landed the poor cow in jail. One has to wonder if the obviously smart people who make the laws truly believe such actions constitute assault, or if they are simply trying – successfully – to create a society where everyone is walking around on eggshells, scared shitless to do any of the thousands of things that could land you in jail these days.

In my view such draconian zeal when it comes to these harmless “crimes” is for the most part an attempt to quash dissent before it even arises. After all, if a stupid joke can land you in jail, should you even think of joining a protest when the government has told you not to? Shit, no – that could get you a lot worse than some community service, and that’s if you survive the arrest.

 

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How not to raise a child.

How not to raise a child. published on

Here we have a couple of worthless Texan maggots beating the crap out of their teenage daughter for some minor offense to do with the internet. The poor excuse for a man is a family court judge named William Adams of Aransas County (Texas), and even though this video is several years old he has not been charged and is apparently still serving as a judge. Oh yeah, he’s apparently a Republican, which comes as no surprise to anyone who’s been paying attention to the way those dirtbags have behaved over the last few decades.

This degree of child abuse is not only wrong (well, duh) but is something I would personally like to see the law punish as severely as possible – busting the parents’ kneecaps then whipping them senseless with barbed wire seems fitting to me. And yes, that includes the mother, despite the uploader’s claims that she is a victim not a perpetrator. Funny, for someone who isn’t violent she does a good impression…And yes, I know the uploader claims to be the teen involved, but it wouldn’t be the first time an abused kid made excuses for their abuser, so I will need more than the girl’s word to exonerate mommy dearest.

There has been talk of YouTube removing the video, so you might want to download it and repost it somewhere else.

American Firm’s Not So Hidden Contempt for the Poor

American Firm’s Not So Hidden Contempt for the Poor published on

Think the lawyers who foreclose on people’s homes are just a bunch of otherwise decent folks doing an unpleasant job? Think again.

According to a former employee, last year the soulless slimebags at New York law firm Steven J Baum decided that for Halloween they would get their jollies by dressing up as their victims. Amongst the delights to be had were mockups of foreclosed homes, improvised shelters, a coffin bearing the name of a lawyer who dared to take exception to their apparently psychopathic way of doing business, and various assholes wearing outfits which they no doubt obtained by beating the crap out of that guy who lives in the dumpster behind their offices.

My fave is the cow in the photo – don’t you just love the way she further mocks the people whose lives she has ruined by implying that they can’t spell even the simplest of words? I am also amused by the irony of her doing so, given that she herself has apparently failed to learn even the simplest of moral principles…

 

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