…mocking fundamentalist Christians.
This is why I feel sorry for the folks at the Onion. They try their best, bless ‘em, but the reality is always more amusing/horrifying than the parody.
Cosmic Variance is a group blog by people who, coincidentally or not, all happen to be physicists and astrophysicists:
Our day (and night) jobs notwithstanding, the blog is about whatever we find interesting — science, to be sure, but also arts, politics, culture, technology, academia, and miscellaneous trivia. We have similar outlooks on many things, widely disparate opinions about others, and will do our best to keep the discourse reasonably elevated.
August 17th, 2005 at 11:25 am
Following the link on Pandagon was like having my brain scrubbed out with steel wool. Yet another in a long series of articles explaining why complete and utter subordination of a wife to a husband results in “successful” marriages.
Now I’m covered in stupid. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.
August 17th, 2005 at 12:29 pm
Be sure to check out the comments at Pangagon too, they are really funny. Like this one from Ras_Nesta :
True, good time is what matters here.
August 17th, 2005 at 12:57 pm
Nearly choked on my coffee from laughter when skimming the wifey “tips” article, and then this, ahem, sobering insight:
“Men are not women. They differ from us physically, emotionally and psychologically. They process information differently than we do; they communicate differently; they have different basic needs.”
Well, I am grateful for the physical differences, but omigosh, different basic needs too! Perhaps more specific physiological needs than those in the lower levels of Maslow’s Hierarchy. Food, water, and air really are not definitive enough — what would the author recommend as the essential source of nutrition for men? Beer and nuts? Wine and cheese? Marshmallow fluff and peanut butter?
August 17th, 2005 at 1:42 pm
“Intelligent Falling” reminds me of Feynman’s first lecture on the Character of Physical Law:
August 17th, 2005 at 2:18 pm
Whoa! I had posted something similar to the Onion article in my blog yesterday: http://www.livejournal.com/users/savyasachi/93033.html. This is what I said:
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You know how ridiculous that sounds to a Physics student? The same as this:
Newton’s Law is wrong; the force of attraction is proportional to 1/r, and not 1/r-squared. Its just that Nature has a “hidden agenda” and wants to keep this fact from us, that is why it disguised a 1/r force as a 1/r-squared force. Furthermore, also because of its “hidden agendum”, Nature has disguised what was a repulsive force as an attractive force by manipulating our senses…..
Quite like the “Intelligent Design” theory doing the rounds in the US, I think…..
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Glad the Onion came up with something more hilarious…..
August 23rd, 2005 at 12:57 am
If you haven’t seen it already:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/mcsnee/433748.html