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He had a shower afterwards and he won’t catch the HIV!

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So Jacob Zuma is sorry about having unprotected sex with someone three decades younger than himself, who is not one of the five women he’s married. That’s a little better than last week’s “You should be proud that I’ve admitted paternity and paid a fine. What are you all so uptight about?” HIV activists are pretty upset. Me, I prefer to see what he’s done as a good thing.

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How is that a good thing? Well, it allows us to say the unsayable: countries get the HIV epidemics they deserve.

Mr. Zuma used his 2006 rape trial to give us a new perspective on how to stay HIV-free. Sorry I had unprotected sex with an HIV-infected woman he said, but don’t worry about me, I had a shower afterwards, so I won’t catch anything.Read more at www.wisdomofwhores.com
 
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Posted by jagannath rao adukuri  4 hours ago

The Berlin ball

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When the Soviets finally released the autopsy report on Hitler’s corpse in 1968, it contained the startling datum that the Führer was one testicle short. The body found outside the Berlin bunker had been burned with gasoline and had to be identified by its dental records (Hitler had terrible teeth, with metal implants for false incisors). But according to the strikingly-named Russian examining Doctor Faust Shkaravaski, Hitler’s scrotum sack remained perfectly intact — “singed but preserved” — and very definitely minus a bollock. This news from the USSR was greeted with fascination in the West and has inspired a cottage industry of explanations from industrious Nazi historianRead more at www.thesmartset.com
 
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Posted by jagannath rao adukuri  4 hours ago

Actually the philosopher Botul never existed

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Our friend Bernard-Henri Lévy, France’s most dashing thinker, has egg on his face today after it was discovered that he had fallen for a well-known literary hoax. The story is delicious.

In his latest book, published this week amid the traditional adulation in the media, Lévy, 61, attacks Immanuel Kant, the 18th century philosopher. He calls him “raving mad” and cites as his authority Jean-Baptiste Botul, a 20th century philosopher.

The trouble is that Botul never existed. He was invented as an elaborate joke in 1999 by Frédéric Pagès, a literary journalist, who wrote works in his name. One was titled “The Sex Life of Immanuel Kant.”  His school, known as Botulism, subscribes to his theory of “La Metaphysique du Mou” [The metaphysics of the limp].

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Posted by jagannath rao adukuri  4 hours ago

Global warming is so much hot air

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The global warming movement as we have known it is dead.

The movement died from two causes: bad science and bad politics.

After years in which global warming activists had lectured everyone about the overwhelming nature of the scientific evidence, it turned out that the most prestigious agencies in the global warming movement were breaking laws, hiding data, and making inflated, bogus claims resting on, in some cases, no scientific basis at all. This latest story in the London Times is yet another shocker; the IPCC’s claims that the rainforests were going to disappear as a result of global warming are as bogus and fraudulent as its claims that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035.  It seems as if a scare story could grab a headline, the IPCC simply didn’t care about whether it was reality-based.

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Posted by jagannath rao adukuri  4 days ago

It is the phenotype tests which are more relevant to us than genotype tests

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the fact remains that for most of us, the genotype is much less relevant than the phenotype. What is phenotype? It is the things we can see, the outward or observable physical or biochemical characteristics and they are determined by both your genetic makeup and environmental influences. Your blond hair, your weight, your strange nose, green eyes and that funky shaped little toe of yours –all examples of phenotype.
ndeed the gene tests added little to the risk already determined by phenotypes. In their own words, “the addition of genotypes to phenotype based risk models produced only minimal improvement in accuracy of risk estimation  . . .”  Translation: use your eyes, take a good history, weigh the patient and get a few simple blood tests, and you can predict risk far better than a panel of genetic tests.  Read more at correspondents.theatlantic.com
 
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Posted by jagannath rao adukuri  4 days ago

people prefer things which are easier to think about,not those which they are to wrack their brains about

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One of the hottest topics in psychology today is something called “cognitive fluency.” Cognitive fluency is simply a measure of how easy it is to think about something, and it turns out that people prefer things that are easy to think about to those that are hard. On the face of it, it’s a rather intuitive idea. But psychologists are only beginning to uncover the surprising extent to which fluency guides our thinking, and in situations where we have no idea it is at work.

Psychologists have determined, for example, that shares in companies with easy-to-pronounce names do indeed significantly outperform those with hard-to-pronounce names. Other studies have shown that when presenting people with a factual statement, manipulations that make the statement easier to mentally process - even totally nonsubstantive changes like writing it in a cleaner font or making it rhyme or simply repeating it - can alter people’s judgment of the truth of the statement, Read more at www.boston.com
 
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Posted by jagannath rao adukuri  4 days ago

Literary invective is not always literary

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Nor is the invective always strictly literary. Virginia Woolf saw Somerset Maugham as “a grim figure; rat-eyed, dead-man-cheeked, unshaven; a criminal I should have said had I met him in a bus.”

In his savagely funny essay Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offences, Mark Twain wrote of the once immensely popular novelist: “There are nineteen rules governing literary art in the domain of romantic fiction. … In Deerslayer Cooper violated eighteen of them.”

You suck, and so does your writing

In the annals of literature, the progress of friends and rivals has often been a matter of consuming interest to writers. The thoughts – often more the spewings – of those sufficiently in the grips of the green-eyed monster to go on record are the subject of Poisoned Pens: Literary Invective from Amis to Zola, edited by Gary Dexter (Francis Lincoln, 240 pages, $21.50). It’s a delicious concoction of dismissals, disappointments, re-evaluations (direction: firmly downward) and outright rants.

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Posted by jagannath rao adukuri  4 days ago

Hitler was a monorch (no spelling error) of all he surveyed

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When the Soviets finally released the autopsy report on Hitler’s corpse in 1968, it contained the startling datum that the Führer was one testicle short
This news from the USSR was greeted with fascination in the West and has inspired a cottage industry of explanations from industrious Nazi historians
Theory #1: The Führer was born that way.
The possibility that Hitler was born with monorchism — one testicle missing — provoked a flurry of studies on Hitler’s psychology, arguing that Hitler’s evil was an extreme case of the behavioral changes that have been linked to this physical condition.
Theory #2: An old war wound.
Theory #3: The Soviets made it up.
Hitler — has only got one ball,
Göring — has two, but very small;
Himmler is very sim’lar,
And Göbbels has no balls at all
Others have suggested that the testicle went AWOL in the First World War, when Hitler was wounded by a bullet in the thigh — which possibly damaged the groin.Read more at www.thesmartset.com
 
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Posted by jagannath rao adukuri  4 days ago

We haven’t got any stupider :the crimes in the fifties were as stupid as now

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Oh, heck, and we thought people just got stupid yesterday. But, no, they’ve been asses for decades.

As proof, we present a decades-old logbook of crimes from Hillsborough County. Print it and you’ve got FloriDUH for the ’50s.

The cops just recently rediscovered the logbook with names, addresses, races, ages, charges and arresting officers for each person arrested between Dec. 29, 1958, and Dec. 28, 1961, reports the Tampa Tribune.

A legless Tampa man was charged with drunken driving.

The Seffner family of four was charged with possession and transportation of moonshine.

A ‘howling happy’ group of 138 men were bonded out of a bulging Hillsborough County Jail charged with breach of peace in connection with a stag movie showing at a Sunshine Park restaurant.

“Howling happy”???? Hey, that’s us, everyday.

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Posted by jagannath rao adukuri  5 days ago

In the future you may not be a pen-pusher or a mouse-clicker but a body part maker or a nano-medic

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With the help of the team at Fast Future Research, Science: [So what? So everything] has looked at potential developments in science and technology over  the next 20 years and identified 20 jobs we could be doing as a result of these advances.

What would you like to do?

Body part maker
2. Nano-medic
3. Pharmer of genetically engineered crops and livestock
4. Old age wellness manager/consultant
5. Memory augmentation surgeon
6. ‘New science’ ethicist
7. Space pilots, tour guides and architects
8. Vertical farmers
9. Climate change reversal specialist
10. Quarantine enforcer
11. Weather modification police
12. Virtual lawyer
13. Avatar manager/devotees/virtual teachers
14. Alternative vehicle developers
15. Narrowcasters
16. Waste data handler
17. Virtual clutter organiser
18. Time broker/Time bank trader
19. Social ‘networking’ worker
20. Personal branders Read more at sciencesowhat.direct.gov.uk
 
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Posted by jagannath rao adukuri  5 days ago
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