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A fair and balanced compendium of spontaneous exclamations and excited utterances, with 22 entries on the front page. And, now, Home of the YATSASS™ Reports Yet Another True Story About Stupid Studies: • Breathing Bus Exhaust is Stressful • Depressed People May Take Drugs To Feel Better • Smart healthy people choose foods more wisely than stupid drunks • Stressed Out Moms Think Their Babies Are Annoying • People Are Groggy When They Wake Up • Airport Screeners Probably Can't Stop Spread of SARS & Flu • Study on Studies Yields Disappointment! • Lengthy Study with No Findings! A perfect YATSASS! • Making Fun Of Fat Kids Depresses Them • Drinking Highly Sugared Beverages Can Make You Fat! • Americans Prefer Safe & Effective Drugs to Unproven and Dangerous Ones • Study Shows Poor & Homeless Drink More Malt Liquor • Study on People in Studies Yields Predictable Answers, But Also Raises New Questions • Women Don't Like Getting Up to Feed the Newborn While Their Husbands Sleep Like Babies • Sperm Levels Drop With Frequent Ejaculation • People Who Don't Screw Around Get Less Clap • Swimming Can Cause Fluid Build-Up in Lungs • People Who Eat A Proper Diet are Healthier and Thinner • People who don't wet their pants feel better than people who do • Maybe Left Handed Winter Babies have More Brain Cancer, Maybe Not... • People who had nose jobs and people who didn't both like the same kind of noses • People pass more gas when they are active • Kids who spend too much time reading will get headaches • People who get drunk think others are more attractive than they do when they're sober In the old days, My thoughts were more coherent, and I could string together whole sequences of actual paragraphs! Those essays can be found here for those so interested.
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Saturday, November 10, 2007 Posted 11:20 AM
  Stone Age feminism? - The Boston Globe  Men should hunt. Women should stay home and cook. Haven't the guys been saying this for years and years? Who knew our very survival was at issue? Sometimes you just have to go with folk wisdom. Now there's science: Today's Boston Globe reveals that the extinction of the Neanderthal race was caused by women joining the hunt. Professor Steven L. Kuhn at the University of Arizona says that archaeological evidence shows that Neanderthal women, unlike Homo sapien women, joined men in hunts at a time when many hunters died as a result of being kicked, stomped or gored by the wild animals they pursued. "Putting the reproductive core of the population - pregnant women, mothers of infants, children themselves - at such danger could have put Neanderthals as a whole at serious demographic disadvantage," he said. Not only would women suffer casualties, Kuhn said, their full participation in the hunt would mean they were not harvesting wild grains and other foods that could sustain their roving bands when game was scarce. In other words, professor, the race would have survived if the girls would have just let the guys go off to the cabin in the woods, just the guys... and they stayed home and cooked? Although the article says that Neanderthals possessed the FOXP2 gene, suggesting that they were capable of "human-like language," it seems they were incapable of articulating the very words that could have saved them. "Honey, please... it's better this way. Just me and the guys. It's just one weekend.... No, I promise, Lucy isn't going to be there either!" © 2002-2008 Rob Falk, All Rights Reserved. All Wrongs Denied. Your mileage won't vary; it will be less. | Subscribe to Rants!
  
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