http://whynotresist.blogsome.com Peace most certainly is NOT their profession! Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:32:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en …from the Globe and Mail:   "If scientists can help Peter Cottontail get an erection, there may be hope for the other flaccid Peters of the world. " http://whynotresist.blogsome.com/2009/11/11/things-youll-never-read-in-the-journal-star/ Flu jabs for children and the sick   Flu jabs for Wall Street workers: (from Democracy Now)    CDC Criticized for Distributing Scarce Flu Vaccines to Wall St. Firms And calls are growing for an investigation into why health officials have handed out swine flu vaccines to some of Wall Street’s leading financial firms while they’re ... http://whynotresist.blogsome.com/2009/11/06/compare-and-contrast-2/  I’d make a wisecrack about turning North Omaha into Gaza, but I don’t want to give them any ideas.   Further WTF? The feds are paying to send them.   http://whynotresist.blogsome.com/2009/11/06/todays-wtf/ Working in Harvard Square was one of the worst experiences in my entire life, but seeing Brother Blue always lifted the mood of the place. He could do that, just walking through a door.  Brother Blue was a wonderful story teller, and a wonderful human being. Cambridge will never be ... http://whynotresist.blogsome.com/2009/11/06/rip-brother-blue/ Claude Levi-Strauss dead at 100. Updated: well, no, not "updated" in that sense-he’s still quite dead. I meant my post-here’s a better obituary from the Guardian.    I know, I know, you were expecting some sort of structuralism joke, but I’m just not on it today. Feel free to have at it ... http://whynotresist.blogsome.com/2009/11/03/file-under-holy-shit-i-thought-he-died-forty-years-ago/   I am now the proud owner of 32 episodes of My Favorite Martian on 8 videos for which I paid the absurd sum of seven bucks. It was still sealed in the original box. I also bought some used VHS tapes of Lost in ... http://whynotresist.blogsome.com/2009/11/03/classic-tv-and-candy/ I can’t help but feel sad reading THIS article. I understand they were attempting to be funny-giving guidelines if a costume is too racy-except they didn’t say "racy", they said "slutty". which has a completely different connotation. It is also limited to women.   It ... http://whynotresist.blogsome.com/2009/10/31/blogs-arent-killing-print-papers-crap-writing-is/ THIS is kind of funny. http://whynotresist.blogsome.com/2009/10/30/xkcd/ Well, now it is official-the country has gone utterly mad.   I can’t even summon a nanny-state joke, this is so terribly sad and pathetic.  http://whynotresist.blogsome.com/2009/10/29/england-your-england-15/ Our local newspaper has a columnist that is known for dreadful, one sentence paragraphs. She’s a pretty awful writer, but at least she’s concise. No one could ever accuse Cindy Lange Kubick of overwriting a paragraph. We can’t say the same for Lynne Ireland. ... http://whynotresist.blogsome.com/2009/10/29/onion-or-journal-star-2/