YouTube - Lily Allen - The Fear

YouTube - Lily Allen - The Fear

I want to be rich and I want lots of money
I don’t care about clever
I don’t care about funny
I want loads of clothes and f***loads of diamonds
I heard people die while they are trying to find them

Forget about guns and forget ammunition
Cause I’m killing them all on my own little mission
Now I’m not a saint but I’m not a sinner
Now everything is cool as long as I’m getting thinner

http://www.musicloversgroup.com/lily-allen-the-fear-lyrics-and-video/

YouTube - Ain't No Reason

YouTube - Ain't No Reason

I got a basket full of lemons and they all taste the same

Slavery stitched into the fabric of my clothes

Study by USU Professor Finds Overweight Women at Risk - USU Statesman - Utah State University

Study by USU Professor Finds Overweight Women at Risk - USU Statesman - Utah State University

Previous studies have demonstrated that employers often attribute positive traits such as cooperativeness, intelligence and competence to attractive female employees, and view heavy women — often considered less attractive — as less productive, less capable of managing others. However, the new evidence suggests the disparity of career advancement begins long before an overweight individual even sets foot in the workplace — it occurs while people are still in the classroom.

Flash Mob as Final Exam | NBC Washington

Flash Mob as Final Exam | NBC Washington

Buckingham said the flash mob final exam pushed the students to connect their song choices, choreography and costumes to their course material. The students had to explain their sociological relevance before they were approved.

Sociology is the study of human behavior and how people influence each other. The Wootton students not only had to organize to perform, they had to observe their audience while they did it.

Weekly Standard: Kickin' Back with Tax Payer Money : NPR

Weekly Standard: Kickin' Back with Tax Payer Money : NPR

The work done by most of my colleagues did bear on issues of wider relevance and not all of it was so ideologically compromised as to be useless. But the readership of academic journals is tiny, and most of this work had no impact beyond a small circle of interested academics — for understandable reasons. Philip Tetlock, a research psychologist at Berkeley, tested the accuracy of 82,361 predictions made by 284 experts including psychologists, economists, political scientists, and area and foreign policy specialists, 96 percent with post-graduate training. He found that their prognostications did not beat chance. The increasingly ideological nature of social science will not improve this record.

Weekly Standard: Kickin' Back with Tax Payer Money : NPR

Weekly Standard: Kickin' Back with Tax Payer Money : NPR

According to data from the Center for Responsive Politics, Harvard, donating 4 to 1 in favor of Democrats in 2008, was one of the more politically diverse major American universities. Ninety-two percent of employees at the University of Chicago donated to Democrats. The University of California favored Democrats over Republicans, 90 percent to 10 percent. And William and Mary employees preferred Democrats to the GOP by a margin of 99 percent to 1 percent. Neil Gross of Harvard found that 87.6 percent of social scientists voted for Kerry, 6.2 percent for Bush. Gross also found that 25 percent of sociologists characterize themselves as Marxists, likely a higher percentage than members of the Chinese Communist party. I would guess that if Lenin were around today he would be teaching sociology and seeking grants to fund the revolution.

YouTube - Stay at Home Dad: Sacked - "The Stare Master"

YouTube - Stay at Home Dad: Sacked - "The Stare Master"

Blog : If you don't know GOD, don't make stupid remarks!!!!!!

Blog : If you don't know GOD, don't make stupid remarks!!!!!!

Transgender Clownfish? Gender Diversity Lesson at California School Riles Critics - FoxNews.com

Transgender Clownfish? Gender Diversity Lesson at California School Riles Critics - FoxNews.com

"This is only the latest example of what seems to be a New-Age, gender-bending agenda pushed into the mainstream media by those who refuse to accept the traditional sex differences between men and women," Brown wrote.

For Millennials, Parenthood Trumps Marriage - Pew Research Center

For Millennials, Parenthood Trumps Marriage - Pew Research Center

Likewise, about six-in-ten (63%) Millennials think that single motherhood is bad for society, compared with seven-in-ten (71%) adults ages 30 and older. More than four-in-ten (44%) Millennials say that the institution of marriage is becoming obsolete, compared with 37% of those ages 30 and older.

Daily Number: Jesus Christ's Return to Earth - Pew Research Center

Daily Number: Jesus Christ's Return to Earth - Pew Research Center

By the year 2050, 41% of Americans believe that Jesus Christ definitely (23%) or probably (18%) will have returned to earth. However, a 46%-plurality of the public does not believe Christ will return during the next 40 years. Fully 58% of white evangelical Christians say Christ will return to earth in this period, by far the highest percentage in any religious group. Only about a third of Catholics (32%) and even fewer white mainline Protestants (27%) predict Christ's return to earth by 2050. One-in-five religiously unaffiliated Americans also see Christ returning during the next four decades. Americans with no college experience (59%) are much more likely than those with some college experience (35%) or college graduates (19%) to expect Jesus Christ's return. By region, those in the South (52%) are the most likely to predict a Second Coming by 2050.

Lifeguards' high pay riles Calif. beach city - USATODAY.com

Lifeguards' high pay riles Calif. beach city - USATODAY.com

With overtime only added in, more than half of the 13 cleared $100,000 and the rest made between $59,500 and $98,500. Adding in pension contributions, medical benefits, life insurance and other pay, two battalion chiefs earned more than $200,000 in 2010, while the lowest-paid officer made more than $98,000.

1968 Olympics

The Olympics: Black Complaint - TIME

"Faster, Higher, Stronger" is the motto of the Olympic Games. "Angrier, nastier, uglier" better describes the scene in Mexico City last week. There, in the same stadium from which 6,200 pigeons swooped skyward to signify the opening of the "Peace Olympics," Sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos, two disaffected black athletes from the U.S. put on a public display of petulance that sparked one of the most unpleasant controversies in Olympic history and turned the high drama of the games into theater of the absurd.

Who's ‘cool’ after high school graduation? - Books - booksmiscellaneous - TODAY.com

Who's ‘cool’ after high school graduation? - Books - booksmiscellaneous - TODAY.com

The students outside these walls are the kids who typically are not considered part of the in crowd, the ones who are excluded, blatantly or subtly, from the premier table in the lunchroom. I refer to them as “cafeteria fringe.” Whether alone or in groups, these geeks, loners, punks, floaters, nerds, freaks, dorks, gamers, bandies, art kids, theater geeks, choir kids, Goths, weirdos, indies, scenes, emos, skaters, and various types of racial and other minorities are often relegated to subordinate social status simply because they are, or seem to be, even the slightest bit different.

Push Up Bikini Tops at Abercrombie Kids » Sociological Images

Push Up Bikini Tops at Abercrombie Kids » Sociological Images

Allison K. sent in another example of the sexualization of young girls.  Abercrombie Kids is selling bikinis with “push-up” tops.  According to Wikipedia, the company markets its products at kids age 7-14. The average age of puberty is 12.   So, at what age should girls start trying to enhance their cleavage?  How old is too young?

Four Preventable Risk Factors Reduce Life Expectancy in U.S. and Lead to Health Disparities - March 22, 2010 -2010 Releases - Press Releases - Harvard School of Public Health

Four Preventable Risk Factors Reduce Life Expectancy in U.S. and Lead to Health Disparities - March 22, 2010 -2010 Releases - Press Releases - Harvard School of Public Health

Boston, MA -- A new study led by researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) in collaboration with researchers from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington estimates that smoking, high blood pressure, elevated blood glucose and overweight and obesity currently reduce life expectancy in the U.S. by 4.9 years in men and 4.1 years in women. It is the first study to look at the effects of those four preventable risk factors on life expectancy in the whole nation.

The researchers also estimated the effects of these risk factors on eight subgroups of the U.S. population, called the “Eight Americas.” The Eight Americas are defined by race, county location and the socioeconomic features of each county. They found that these four risk factors account for a substantial proportion of differentials in life expectancy among these groups. Southern rural blacks had the largest reduction in life expectancy due to these risk factors (6.7 years for men and 5.7 years for women) and Asians the smallest (4.1 years for men and 3.6 years for women).

YouTube - Lily Allen - The Fear

YouTube - Lily Allen - The Fear

I want to be rich and I want lots of money
I don’t care about clever I
don’t care about funny
I want loads of clothes and f***loads of diamonds
I
heard people die while they are trying to find them

Forget about guns and forget ammunition
Cause I’m killing them all on my own
little mission
Now I’m not a saint but I’m not a sinner
Now everything is
cool as long as I’m getting thinner

http://www.musicloversgroup.com/lily-allen-the-fear-lyrics-and-video/

YouTube - Budweiser Commercial "how you doin'?" 2

YouTube - Budweiser Commercial "how you doin'?" 2

Justices Rule for Protesters at Military Funerals - NYTimes.com

Justices Rule for Protesters at Military Funerals - NYTimes.com

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. dissented in the case, Snyder v. Phelps, No. 09-751. He likened the protest to fighting words, which are not protected by the First Amendment.

“In order to have a society in which public issues can be openly and vigorously debated,” he wrote, “it is not necessary to allow the brutalization of innocent victims.”

YouTube - Katie Makkai - Pretty

YouTube - Katie Makkai - Pretty

This is about the self-mutilating circus we have painted ourselves clowns in.
About women who will prowl 30 stores in 6 malls to find the right cocktail
dress, but haven't a clue where to find fulfillment or how wear joy, wandering
through life shackled to a shopping bag, beneath those 2 pretty
syllables.

About men wallowing on bar stools, drearily practicing
attraction and everyone who will drift home tonight, crest-fallen because not
enough strangers found you suitably fuckable.

This, this is about my own
some-day daughter. When you approach me, already stung-stayed with insecurity,
begging, “Mom, will I be pretty? Will I be pretty?” I will wipe that question
from your mouth like cheap lipstick and answer, “No! The word pretty is unworthy
of everything you will be, and no child of mine will be contained in five
letters.

http://dianasmanylifetimes.blogspot.com/2010/11/katie-makkai-pretty.html

Justices Rule for Protesters at Military Funerals - NYTimes.com

Justices Rule for Protesters at Military Funerals - NYTimes.com

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. dissented in the case, Snyder v. Phelps, No. 09-751. He likened the protest to fighting words, which are not protected by the First Amendment.

“In order to have a society in which public issues can be openly and vigorously debated,” he wrote, “it is not necessary to allow the brutalization of innocent victims.”

YouTube - Budweiser Commercial "how you doin'?" 2

YouTube - Budweiser Commercial "how you doin'?" 2

It Gets Better Project | Take the It Gets Better pledge

It Gets Better Project | Take the It Gets Better pledge

Take the pledge and help spread our message of hope. It Gets Better.

THE PLEDGE: Everyone deserves to be respected for who they are. I pledge to spread this message to my friends, family and neighbors. I'll speak up against hate and intolerance whenever I see it, at school and at work. I'll provide hope for lesbian, gay, bi, trans and other bullied teens by letting them know that "It Gets Better."

Rape and other Sex Offenses in Nevada, 1990-2007

http://www.unlv.edu/centers/crimestats/SDBs/Rape/Rape%20in%20Nevada%20v4.pdf

How Your Experiences Change Your Sperm and Eggs - Newsweek

How Your Experiences Change Your Sperm and Eggs - Newsweek

One reason that is not so farfetched: transgenerational effects are showing up not only in lab rats but also in people, as if the ghosts of our ancestors haunt our very genes. In 2006 scientists announced the findings of a study in a town in Sweden called Överkalix (chosen because it keeps excellent birth and death records). If a father began smoking before the age of 11, found Marcus Pembrey of the Institute of Child Health in London, his sons had a greater body-mass index, on average, than did sons of men who took up smoking as adults. In this same population, if a man suffered food shortages as an 8- to 12-year-old child, his sons’ sons were more likely to die young; if a woman suffered food shortages as a child, her son’s daughters were. Another study in Överkalix found that if a man overate in childhood, his sons’ children were four times more likely to develop diabetes and cardiovascular disease, found scientists at Sweden’s Umeå University.