Another good link from the Hunjang, this time on livelihoods in North Korea. Basically, sanctions won’t hurt many of the average people, but they will hurt the hell out of the ruling class.
Category: ASIDES
Oxygen Feed in Hotel?
One of the feeds I’ve re-subbed to is the Asian Sex Gazette, a newsfeed on sexual culture issues in Asia. Anyway, this rather fluffy article attracted my attention not for the promise of “surefire ways to lure the ladies” but the description of a pipe into the room, pumping pure oxygen for you to inhale and apply to your skin. You know, I really hope that some idiot doesn’t light up a cigarette in bed while his girlfriend has the oxygen pipe open, because, well, that could be really bad. Sounds like the opening scene in a cyberpunk novel or …
The Sonic Hedgehog Gene. No Kidding.
There is a gene called the Sonic Hedgehog Gene. I’m not kidding. It’s kind of sad. For more information, go see the post at Mssv.
Babies? Well…
Another good installment of the wonderful column domestic disturbance series, by Melissa Lipscomb, is up. About how she doesn’t really miss having a baby.
‘Uncovered Meat’???
So, what I think is causing pressure on the sane, sensible Muslims of the world is when asshead clerics say things like women who are not covered in a headscarf are “like uncovered meat”. Female Muslims have been among the most vocal in calling for the cleric’s resignation over references in his sermon to women being soldiers of Satan who were responsible for 90 percent of adultery. “In due course, I will take the necessary decision that will lift the pressures that have been placed on our Australian Muslim community and that which will benefit all Australians,” said al-Hilali, who …
BigHominid on… crapping’ your pants.
BigHominid linked to someone who noted that crapping one’s pants in public is a universal crisis, one that transcends all human boundaries. Actually, it reminds me of something I realized, I think, in late elementary school. A teacher had walked out of the bathrooms of our little school house, and whether it was his or not, there was a big poo left behind in one of the toilet stalls. It was then that I realized: teachers go to the toilet and take stinky dumps, just like anyone else. Priests do it. Nuns do it. Parents. Pretty girls do it. Ugly …
Charges Sought Against Scumsfeld
Yep, now that he’s no longer in the immune boat, and now that it’s documented he knew about the prison abuse in Iraq, charges are being against Rumsfeld in Germany. It’s not the first time, and one cannot help but hope it is not the last.
Harry Potter in 1 Minute
Zuper Kim
Hilarious, even if it’s also a little disturbingly close to reality. (Via the esteemed Marmot.)
A Riot in North Korea?
Andrei Lankov reports what little is known, and why it might be significant.