“A cut woman”

I first read, at least in depth, about this Islamic ritual of “cutting women” in Ayaan Ali’s Infidel.

Confessions of a “relationship coach”

”[My husband]  was the man who never read a word of one of my books, no matter how much I begged. He was the man who would not listen to me talk about my work, no matter how much that meant to me. He was the man who got shoe polish all over our new white couch and refused to put a cover on it or take off his shoes. I remember crying on my hands and knees as I tried to wash the shoe polish out, and every stroke of the sponge made it worse. Fifteen years of this and I was still stuck. So, I’ll tell you what finally helped me decide to leave…” I don’t know, it seems to me that for most women the shoe polish incident would’ve done it. This so-called relationship expert”, who had appeared on Oprah numerous times admits she lied about her own marriage (can yo imagine lying to the Queen of TV; iIsn’t that tantamount to perjury or something?) ANYWAY you can rad the rest of this article here. One more thing. When is Dr Phil going to confess?

The incident

“…Last week, the world learned about the town of Cleveland, Texas, where 18 teenage boys gang-raped an 11-year-old girl and, according to The New York Times, caused the community to rend their garments about how the crime would ruin the lives … of the rapists…” What to do about avoiding future rape incidents? Well for one, conservatives want to take a rule from the Taliban gender playbook  and regulate the dress code of eleven year old girls. Read article here.

“The idiot cycle”

“…Several books, including Seeds of Destruction andCorrupt to the Core, along with the film, The Idiot Cycle, lay out the framework for and evidence of a concerted effort to sicken and then treat humanity, while earning obscene profits. When we factor in other recent actions taken by transnational corporations and lawmakers, the conspiracy adopts a more ominous tone…” Read more here (Infowars).

What we learned about Japanese society from an earlier earthquake

“…Japan’s orderliness and civility often impressed me during my years living in Japan, but never more so than after the Kobe quake. Pretty much the entire port of Kobe was destroyed, with shop windows broken all across the city. I looked all over for a case of looting, or violent jostling over rescue supplies. Finally, I was delighted to find a store owner who told me that he’d been robbed by two men. Somewhat melodramatically, I asked him something like:And were you surprised that fellow Japanese would take advantage of a natural disaster and turn to crime? He looked surprised and responded, as I recall: Who said anything about Japanese. They were foreigners…”–Nicholas Kristof in the NY Times.

Related: Why is there no looting?

Note: if you want to contrast the difference between Japan and the Grand Banana Republic just research the looting, murder, and rape that went on during the Katrina aftermath.

Note: Scumbag  Wall Streeter reveals his true evil nature.

So demented it’s hilarious

I don’t think there’s a lot of people anymore who don’t consider the Grand Banana Republic to be one sick mass of cat feces. Take the latest hilarious headline story:

ATF senior agent assigned to the Phoenix office in 2010, Dodson’s job is to stop gun trafficking across the border. Instead, he says he was ordered to sit by and watch it happen. Investigators call the tactic letting guns “walk.” In this case, walking into the hands of criminals who would use them in Mexico and the United States…[now here's the really funny part]… Surveillance video obtained by CBS News shows suspected drug cartel suppliers carrying boxes of weapons to their cars at a Phoenix gun shop. The long boxes shown in the video being loaded in were AK-47-type assault rifles. So it turns out ATF not only allowed it – they videotaped it.

Check out the rest of this hilarious story here.