February 12th, 2008 by 5cents
Multiculturalism has brought about the need to consider other ethnic and religious groups’ sensitivities for many aspects of life, such as foreign policy, the educational system, the medical establishment and so on. It makes sense that we be open-minded when it comes to those who are different if we’re ever to hope of living in harmony. In the midst of all this hyper-culturalism and globalization, however, it struck us that today’s society is becoming inevitably entangled in a web of political-correctness and the overwhelming desire not to offend others, to the point where even general conversation is becoming a ridiculous affair fraught with pitfalls.
Consider the following story of a digital children’s book, the Three Little Cowboy Builders, released in the UK that was based on the age-old Three Little Pigs fable. Read On! »
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February 7th, 2008 by 5cents
We at the Womb tend to be quite outspoken when it comes to the plight of African nations, though not in the usual manner. We believe African nations should practice self-reliance, self-improvement and proper self-governance instead of relying on the UN, sympathetic countries, foreign aid & troops (except in cases of, say, natural disasters). Africa is the cradle of life and it is astonishing that millennia of human habitation have little to show on the whole continent barring a few pyramids. Communal strife, genocide, corrupt governance, famine and the like plagues much of Africa even unto this day and to be frank, it seems as though many African nations are not deserving of sovereignty. Case in point, Liberia, where a Truth & Reconciliation Council (TRC) recently begun hearing cases in an attempt to heal wounds from the brutal civil war (which lasted from 1979 to 1993). Read On! »
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January 24th, 2008 by 5cents
We suppose it was only a matter of time before it happened. Sci-fi extravaganza, Planet of the Apes, portended a world where apes had evolved to become the dominant species on the planet with humans relegated into slavery and/or sport. Of course, it took a wayward spaceship and a conveniently located time-altering wormhole to arrive in that apocalyptic world. Now it appears that apes (chimpanzees in particular) aren’t that far behind us in the evolutionary rat-race.
It’s fairly well known that apes make use of tools in their lives. Gorillas have been known to use sticks to gauge the depth of muddy rivers before crossing, use logs as bridges to cross smallish streams and even use tree stumps as postural support while dredging for food in swamps. Chimpanzees use stone tools to crush nuts and fruits, Read On! »
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January 20th, 2008 by 5cents
Let’s begin by stating we at the Womb think Al Sharpton is a douchebag. So he’s done some good deeds for the black community but lately, it seems as though he’s made it his personal quest to become savior to American blacks, a colored Jesus Christ if you will. But the Reverend’s douchebaggery isn’t in question for us, the issue at hand is racism in conversation.
In the first week of this year, Kelly Tilghman (Golf Channel anchor and former touring professional) and Nick Faldo (Golf channel lead analyst and golfing legend) were on television as usual for one of the channel’s PGA tour telecasts. They were discussing Tiger Woods’ sublime form and his tendency to rout the field. Faldo casually suggested an effective technique would be for other players to collectively play strategy against Tiger Read On! »
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January 17th, 2008 by Tart
Editor’s note: Original title - Jumping Through Hoops: A Criticism of Modern Woman.
I will begin at the place where the idea started, shivering to keep itself alive; wrapped in a newspaper like a thrift-shop gift. I was reading an article one day, not too long ago, the kind of sensible, instructional, “for-your-own-good” piece of printed charm. The content? Nothing other than the slightly insistent, slightly nagging, slightly droning voice of feminism, a voice that is so misunderstood (and, more tragically, so misnamed) by so many smirking, self-righteous women and men, that it is beginning to breed confusion rather than liberation. Just as the author, Wallace Immen, was stumbling through the tirelessly saturated topic of women in management, a punch-line quote cooked up by a certain consultant named Elaine Allison was suddenly presented on a fool’s gold platter of wisdom: “If women Read On! »
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January 10th, 2008 by 5cents
We’ve mentioned before (HERE) about third world countries breaking drug patents in order to reproduce treatments at lower cost for delivery to their citizens. India and Brazil lead the way in these fields. Often, the large drug companies remonstrated claiming such practices attack the very processes that came up with the new treatments, namely, diverting funds from research & development. At the Womb, we’ve always firmly stood by countries who felt that their citizen’s need for widely available medication outweighed concerns of intellectual property and corporate greed.
Now, however, comes news that drug companies may be spending more than twice the amount of money on advertising and marketing than they do on R&D. In other words, they spend more on letting the customer know that Viagra might Read On! »
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January 9th, 2008 by 5cents
It’s a well known fact that men and women appreciate humor in different ways. Now, a unicycling doctor at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital has claimed that men are funnier than women because they have testicles, which in itself, is rather humorous (if you’re offended by testicle jokes, you must be nuts! That was horrific, we know). Professor Sam Shuster claims that humor is directly linked to aggression in males, an effect of exposure to testosterone in the womb.
Experiments by Shuster show that younger males were more prone to make abusive, jeering or snide remarks when he unicycled down a street. Aggressive humor diminished in older men who tended to make remarks similar to women; praise and encouraging Read On! »
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