Title: “Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality”

Author: Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá

Rank: 32

Blurb: “Since Darwin’s day, we’ve been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species… Weaving together convergent, frequently overlooked evidence from anthropology, archaeology, primatology, anatomy, and psychosexuality, the authors show how far from human nature monogamy really is.”

Read more »

… and if the oil makes it around the tip of Florida and up the Atlantic Coast, and then heads for Europe?  A global depression and food shortages, we think.

Shrimpers who were exposed to a mixture of oil and Corexit dispersant in the Gulf of Mexico suffered severe symptoms such as muscle spasms, heart palpitations, headaches that last for weeks and bleeding from the rectum, according to a marine toxicologist who spoke issued the warning Friday on cable news network.

Dr. Susan Shaw, founder and director of the Marine Environmental Research Institute, described the symptoms during a CNN broadcast on Friday. Dr. Shaw said that after personally diving the oil spill herself, which she’d chronicled in a widely-publicized essay in late May, a “very fiery soar throat” plagued her after inhaling the fumes.

She specified that stories shrimpers had told her were from when BP was deploying “the more toxic” Corexit 9527. BP has allegedly switched to Corexit 9500.

World Cup madness is winding down with today’s third place match between Uruguay and Germany.  Action starts at 11:30 PT/2:30 ET/??? Nabeesco time.

Germany is heavily favored, though they are more even in their hottie matchup.

Read more »

Won’t you join Mr. Dipshit Republican Asshole, Dr. Ewemustah Beshittinme, Mrs. Hillbilly Douchebag, Führer Adolf Hitler, Dr. Doo Little, Jesus Christ, and Mr. Osama Bin Laden in signing the petition to draft Sarah Palin as chair of the Republican Narional Committee? We can think of nobody else who could improve upon the joy that Michael Steele has brought into our lives.

Draft Sarah for RNC Chair

I have no idea why this fascinates me:

“More than one in seven homeowners with loans in excess of a million dollars are seriously delinquent… By contrast, homeowners with less lavish housing are much more likely to keep writing checks to their lender.” [NYT]