Scottish Nous

OMG, I Want to Puke

This is disgusting: WayTooMany.  You may never again want to be in the same room as a shot or beer after watching one or more of these.  Chug a beer and stick your head in the ceiling fan?  Ten shots of tequila through a beer bong?  This kind of glorified self-abuse would have been far beneath even Australopithecus.

Blog Against Racism Day

I'm aware that I am jumping the gun by a few hours, but internet access is currently scarce.  Anyway, here's my minimal contribution to BARD: a symposium on "Racial Incidents and White Privilege" is being held by the CU sociology department in Benson Earth Sciences 180, Monday, Dec. 5 from 7:00 - 9:30 PM.

Threatening Male Masculinity

Robb Willer is a Cornell Ph.D. candidate in sociology.  According to his study (as of yet unpublished), men whose masculinity is threatened overcompensate by exhibiting increased propensities for SUVs, approbation for the Iraq War, and animonsity towards gays.  Several newswires have picked this up, but here's the Cornell News Service article.  Without further study, this research should not be cited to suggest that homophobic, trigger happy American soldiers who drive SUVs feel like little sissies deep inside, though I'd lay heavy odds on the study being put to that use at least a few hundred thousand times in the next month.  However, you might take the study to imply that you should not call a homophobic, trigger happy American solider who drives an SUV a sissy, since he probably won't just buy another SUV to assert his masculinity.