Back when blogging first started, it was lonely. Me and maybe 5 other people were being funny on the Internet. Otherwise, humor was dominated by big companies and blogging was dominated by earnest do-gooders protesting wars (until a Democrat did it – neo-con imperialism in Libya is standing up for freedom so we get no [...]
read moreAds for drugs today are kind of silly. Ads for erectile dysfunction, for example, are weird geological changes happening in real time that end up with a couple sitting in bathtubs in a forest somewhere, instead of being about what men really care about – banging their wives when they couldn’t do so before. And [...]
read moreI have long objected to health mullahs and their war on what we want to eat. Their rationale is that people are really, really stupid and are solely educated by advertising so it needs to be controlled – or foods banned entirely. I disagree we are really, really stupid and instead submit we are really, [...]
read moreIf you want to get people on bikes, there has to be a compelling reason that offsets looking like a dork in a helmet or showing up sweaty at work. One reason that may work – convincing women they should like sweaty dorks on bikes. Jan Garrard, an Australian researcher, is an expert on biking [...]
read morePieris rapae is a chromatic white butterfly – to us, anyway. In the UV spectrum they have a number of bright colors on their upper wings but we can’t see them. Pterins, pigments on their wing scales, vary a lot among them and can be impacted by diet. The brighter the male colors, the more [...]
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