But sliding down a ramp with boards strapped to your feet is a Canadian human right – or so some contend. Under the sub-heading of “don’t tease us like this!”

A victory for women’s ski jumpers who are trying to get into the 2010 Olympics could spell the end of the Games in Canada, warned a lawyer for the Vancouver Organizing Committee.
“It is very unlikely the Games would be held in Canada again in the foreseeable future” if VANOC departed from its signed contract with the International Olympic Committee, said George Macintosh in a written argument.
VANOC’s lawyers on Wednesday opened their rebuttal argument to a lawsuit by 15 elite women athletes who say VANOC is in breach of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

But here’s the best part !

VANOC also acknowledged Wednesday the committee’s financial and logistical help to the female ski jumpers who are suing them.

That’ll teach ’em.
This can’t be a gender equality problem – the modern IOC has a history of allowing fake female sports (along with fake females) into the games. Who’s advising these girls, anyway? Why go the lawsuit route when the path to Olympic inclusion is as clear and bright as a patch of sunny beach sand?

Every recessionary cloud has its silver lining – University of Guelph campus bulletin;

Following a marathon meeting, the University’s Senate Tuesday night voted to ratify an earlier decision made by its Board of Undergraduate Studies (BUGS) to cancel the women’s studies….

Except that ….

More than 40 courses offered by departments across campus concerning women’s issues, gender, sexuality and diversity will continue to be offered.

Oh, well. It’s a start.

My grandmother’s sister Florence was nearly 5 feet tall. She raised 11 children in a 576 square foot farmhouse with no running water.
I can’t recall ever hearing of her fainting.
(Correction: Cousin Meat says it was 10. Maybe. Or maybe they just stopped counting)

In case you missed it.

Viewer Advisory: This video contains Helen Thomas images, which some viewers may find offensive.

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Six senate seats for the separatist BQ?
Premier Wall, you need to be calling an emergency meeting of your cabinet to draft whatever legislation it takes to protect our resource industry from these crackpots – now.
Contact your Sask Party MLA here.
Update via Bourque “BREAKING: BC Premier Gordon Campbell denounces Coalition putsch: “Stand back, think of Canada !” …”

When I was in college, our class of aspiring commercial artists was required to attend a “reading lab” a few times a week, as part of the course structure. It was during one of these classes that I got up and walked out, creating a minor controversy.
For, instead of wasting our time with grade school reading tasks, our instructor that day decided to waste our time with a grade school morality lecture, in the form of Harry Nilsson’s insufferable album, “The Point”.

“I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, ‘Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn’t, then there’s a point to it.'” – Harry Nilsson

So, Bill – I know how you feel.

(Yes, It’s true)
h/t

“Women’s Studies”.

Just long enough to regurgitate this astonishing display of urban bigotry;

…Sarah Palin … fit of pique … the white trash vote … sexual inadequates … she isn’t even female really … Alaska hillbilly … “white trash” … trailer trash … rural, loud, proudly unlettered … toned-down version of the porn actress … overtreated hair, puffy lips … “pramface” … roughneck fuckin’ redneck … prodding his daughter … ratboy … fizzing with rage and revenge … vicious and profoundly dishonest … good fast listing… nervous wreck with deeply strange hair … the hick vote … ordinary hillbilly … racism? … racism … “rectal fissure” … tense no-hoper ladies … white female marginals …

And we’re forced to pay for this crap.
*Any offense to swine is purely unintentional. Pigs are, in fact, both intelligent and useful – traits that cannot be convincingly attributed to Ms. Mallick.

Nancy Pelosi demonstrates her keen understanding of military affairs – and credits Iranian goodwill for the success of the surge:

Asked if she saw any evidence of the surge’s positive impact on her May 17 trip to Iraq she responded:
Well, the purpose of the surge was to provide a secure space, a time for the political change to occur to accomplish the reconciliation. That didn’t happen. Whatever the military success, and progress that may have been made, the surge didn’t accomplish its goal. And some of the success of the surge is that the goodwill of the Iranians-they decided in Basra when the fighting would end, they negotiated that cessation of hostilities-the Iranians.

One hardly knows how to respond to such idiocy. The Iranians are finding it harder to blow up American troops these days, so it must be because of their goodwill. Of course.

Mankind would still be living in caves, albeit with really, really fancy curtains;

Women have surpassed men in most areas of education, but men continue to be more numerous in fields like math, physics, and engineering. For more than a decade, feminist groups have been lobbying Congress to address the problem of gender “injustice” in the laboratory. Their efforts are finally bearing fruit. Federal agencies are now poised to begin aggressive gender-equity reviews of math, science, and engineering programs. Groups like the National Organization for Women must be celebrating — but American scientists should brace themselves for the destructive tsunami headed their way.

It’s an epiphany I had some years ago, while pondering the engineering behind the luggage carousel at Minneapolis airport, as I waited for my bags. If women ran the world, we would not have the jet engine. It has nothing to do with intellect. It just isn’t in our nature to want one.