People As Zoological Exhibits...

I'm reposting this here because I believe the link wasn't set properly. Enjoy!

I found that on - 10 Great Screenshots From The Maury Povitch Show.

Check it out. The other paternity test one on that link brought me to *laughter tears*.

NYC - More In The Black

Here's one of the more prominent differences between Boston and New York:

New York has a whole lot more BLACK HAIR!

People-wise, it's waaaaay more diverse.

The extra black hair isn't just because of Boston's lily-white Irish heritage...

It's because New York is teeming with a whole lot more Asians, Italians, Jews, Blacks, illegal immigrants Latin Americans, et al.

I think in America 2010, all one really has to do to assess the demographics of a region is check out the size of the Goya section at the supermarket. Put it this way, I had no idea that Goya made so many more products than just beans and rice until I saw the Goya aisle at a store in Port Washington.

But getting back New York's diversity...

Particularly in Manhattan, one notices how extremely heterogeneous the pairs of caretakers and children are. It's far beyond just *white kids with Caribbean nannies*. You'll see every possible permutation imaginable - and then a few more. Asian kids with white nannies; bi-racial combos you won't be able to guess in a million years; and in vitro twins galore. My wife's friend summed it up perfectly, "The kids in New York NEVER match the parents." And often they don't even match their siblings!

And when diversity reigns so wide AND deep....foreigners don't have to assimilate. I experienced this previously as a student at UPenn. And here, I've already heard about old-school *Persians* nearby who, in keeping with their cultural heritage, will smack their adult sister in public if she falls out of line or something.

THAT I have to see, and hopefully record on my camera!

As for the *black hair* abundance, maybe that explains this from my prior post - Google Diversity Training:

Friday Night Self-Help

I always love playing with, and ruminating upon, Google's search suggestions!





































Wow! Bank of America comes right up in *legal targets*.

Not only that, they are also represented there as a *company*, a large *employer*, a *bank*, a *landlord* (via it's ginormous REO inventory!), AND a *credit card company*.

I'll bet their legal department hasn't suffered many (any?) cuts during this economic swoon!

More For You Wal-Mart Bigots

Cabbage Patch Man comes complete with a birth certificate, application for adoption. Each sold separately.

Y'all ought to be ashamed of yourselves for laughing so hard at the diversity of God's creation!

See also - For All Y'all Walmart Bigots.

Halloween, Almost Dead

Except for the incestuous Star Wars family!

I thought they looked pretty cool.

Five days later, my kids have scarcely even asked for their candy.

And why would they? They eat a mountain of junk food on a regular basis. I generally have to scream at them to *eat your pizza...* or *eat your hot dog if you want to have ice cream*.

What happened to notorious brussel sprouts? And what happened to those disgusting canned lima beans from my childhood? We were lucky if we ever even got dessert; and when we did, it was Jello!

So Halloween for me and my siblings/peers, 25-30 years ago....that was a veritable gold rush. Hit as many houses as you can; and circle back to the *good ones*.

Last year, although admittedly I did turn every light in the house off, and crouched down while I read my book with a tiny flashlight...I didn't get a single trick-or-treater.

I was at my crazy parents' house this year, and they too were hardly bothered by confection-seeking brats - despite living in a densely populated neighborhood.

It's just the Moms and Dads, and lots of neighborhood old ladies that still get annually geeked up to see the little ones in costumes. I know one mother who got a Star Wars outfit custom-built for her son - because not one of the thousands of commercially available ones would suffice. Also, one buddy sat his four-year old down and lectured her on *the hierarchy of candy* before trick-or-treating. He stack-ranked Milky Ways, Snickers, M&Ms, and Skittles so that his daughter would know what to pull out of a varied selection.

I myself, as usual, skipped the trick-or-treating, but Mrs. C-Nut informed me that at one house:

Mrs. C-Nut - She(the 4 year old girl) turned around to her father, held up the piece of candy she pulled and asked, "Is this okay, Dad?"

Of course, the side benefit of Halloween being passé....is the pile of empty candy wrappers in front of me right now!

I used to rob the good stuff (Nestle Crunch, Mounds, etc.) from my sister's *hidden* pumpkins every single year. So from that standpoint, not much has changed.

On a separate note...

You know, some Christians don't even let their kids celebrate Halloween. I'd never even thought about this before until recently - when I saw it proclaimed on a homeschooling blog. But this question comes right up on Google:

Is Halloween A Pagan Holiday?

Hmmmm....well, it's definitely celebrated by Pagan Pet-Worshippers!

Annoying People - Pilgrims

You know, I have an extended family inlaw who once told me one of their ancestors signed the Declaration of Independence or something.

I didn't believe that for a second.

Now I'm sure that there do exist today genuine descendants of our Founding Fathers.

But I'm also quite sure that the number of people making such false claims is orders of magnitude larger. My hunch was that this was more of a *Southern* prevarication.

Except, last week I got to chatting with a local *mom*. She informed me that not only had she, her mother, and her grandmother grown up in this same town on Boston's South Shore(big deal, right?), that she was in fact a descendant of the Mayflower Pilgrims.

Oh, really?

Again, I call total BS.

But guess what - the next time some Moron tries to flaunt their noble heritage in my face....

I'm going to start screaming at them about all the Puritan laws still on the books here in Boston.

SO IT'S YOUR FAULT THAT ALTHOUGH I'M 35 YEARS OLD, I CAN'T BUY A BEER AT BOSTON GARDEN WITH AN OUT-OF-STATE LICENSE!!!!

For background visit:

Boston and Alcohol

Boston Without Alcohol.

Google Diversity Training

The following are screenshots of Google search suggestions:









































Not for anything, but WASPS got ripped the most here.

Every other ethnicity may be irksome in some way or another (or another still), but the very *existence* of White Angle-Saxon Protestants has been called into question!