Load of Bollix

Every time I sift through my blog, I’m struck by the (unintentional) reoccurring theme of how much The Express and most journalism sucks (I recognize there is a v. strong argument to be made that The Express is not really journalism so much as a free daily dose of bad writing and phlebotomy school ads). So I’ve compiled Onion headlines and "for real" headlines. But which is which? "Study Finds Paint Aisle At Lowe's Best Place To Have Complete Meltdown" "Balz on Bill Clinton " "Venus Day 2009: 10 Things You Can Do To Help Rid The Atmosphere Of Noxious, Flesh-Burning Sulfuric Acid" "Obama Earth Day Flight Burned More Than 9000 Gallons of Fuel" "Concerts Held To Wish World's Poor Good Luck" "Avoid Mexico" "Travel’s Gay Factor" "Treasury Department Issues Emergency Recall Of All US Dollars" 1. The Onion 2. The Washington Post. If you don't get it, you miss out on double entendres. 3. T...

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The upside of a liberal arts education is that is broadens your horizons by introducing you to varied factual information. (The down side of a liberal arts education is that it prepares you for absolutely nothing useful, but we won’t consider that here). For instance, in my Biological Anthropology class, I learned that apes (specifically, chimps and bonobos) fashion rain hats or umbrellas out of leaves to shield themselves from the weather. This is exciting to people who like to spend their lives with apes (versus people) because it means that our closest ancestors are using tools, and THIS is exciting for reasons that have slipped my mind. It’s a good thing though, because it proves something very important about humans being created in God’s image and there not being any dinosaurs. What’s interesting to me (caveat: as a liberally educated woman, whatever I find interesting is definitely NOT useful) is that chimps (and bonobos) have managed to manipulate their environment in a very so...

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