March 17, 2005
SPRING CLEAN YOUR KEYBOARD: 4 tips from US News to help you Clean up your crumby keyboard
"We know computer keyboards weren't designed to double as crumb-catchers. And our kids never meant to smear peanut butter in the spaces between keys...."
PLUS
Why it pays to dilate your endothelim.... even in public.
UNAFFIRMING ACTION
In a study of public safety officers -- not even the general population -- female officers were found to have 32 percent to 56 percent less upper body strength and 18 percent to 45 percent less lower body strength than male officers -- although their outfits were 43 percent more coordinated. (Here's the cite! Frank J. Landy, "Alternatives to Chronological Age in Determining Standards of Suitability for Public Safety Jobs," Technical Report, Vol. 1, Jan. 31, 1992.)
Another study I've devised involves asking a woman to open a jar of pickles.
There is also the telling fact that feminists demand that strength tests be watered down so that women can pass them. Feminists simultaneously demand that no one suggest women are not as strong as men and then turn around and demand that all the strength tests be changed. It's one thing to waste everyone's time by allowing women to try out for police and fire departments under the same tests given to men. It's quite another to demand that the tests be brawned-down so no one ever has to tell female Harvard professors that women aren't as strong as men.
Acknowledging reality wouldn't be all bad for women. For one thing, they won't have to confront violent felons on methamphetamine. So that's good. Also, while a sane world would not employ 5-foot-tall grandmothers as law enforcement officers, a sane world would also not give full body-cavity searches to 5-foot-tall grandmothers at airports. -- FREEZE! I JUST HAD MY NAILS DONE!
MOMMY DEAREST -- GREAT MOMENTS IN PARENTING:
"My son said, 'It's so embarrassing having you talk all the time on TV about being gay and you picking me up at school in painter's pants.' I told him, 'Yeah, yeah, keep it for your book.' "
-- ROSIE O'DONNELL, quoted in the New York Daily News.
Posted by Vanderleun at March 17, 2005 06:41 AM from American Digest
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