Alan Colmes leaves Hanny and Colmes.

AllahPundit has a poll to ask who should replace Colmes.

I vote for Tammy Bruce.

And "Hannity and Bruce" has the same meter as "Hannity and Colmes".

 

Gender analyzer online

From the metrosexual Gateway Pundit:

Nasty trolls are one thing... But this is much more concerning.

Today's sick and twisted attack on this blog actually came in the email from fellow conservative Jules Crittenden.

 

Jules went to http://www.genderanalyzer.com/, plugged in http://www.julescrittenden.com/ to see if it could determine the gender of his blog's writer, and it came back with... strong indicators that http:/www.julescrittenden.com is written by a man (95 percent).

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Then I read this...

Gatewaypundit... girly blogger at 54 percent.

What?!! That's F-n bullsh*t!

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UPDATE: Paula added this on Jules' stupid gender test:

 

 

Hmm, this is kind of funny. Gender analyzer guessed there was a 53% chance that my sewing blog was written by a man but is quite gender neutral. That just strikes me as hilarious. 'Cuz, you know, sewing is such a manly pastime.

I'm Barbecue Sauce!

You Are Barbeque Sauce

You are a social person. You enjoy cooking for other people. You are both skillful and competitive. You enjoy mastering hard tasks. You appreciate complexity more than simplicity. Your taste in food tends to lean toward interesting flavors. You appreciate exotic spice combinations. You tend to like cutting edge, fusion cuisine. You get along with all personalities from a distance. Except salsa personalities, who always seem to annoy you.

What Condiment Are You?

Hat tip: The Anchoress

Climate quiz

Climatologist Dr. Richard Keen is a lecturer in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Colorado, a member of the American Meteorological Society and has worked with the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Keen specializes in volcanic aerosols and climate change studies and wrote the book "Skywatch: The Western Weather Guide." Keen's Global Warming Quiz asking "Inconvenient Questions" was featured on October 14, 2008 on former Colorado State climatologist Dr. Roger Pielke's Sr. website.

Who's your candidate?

Readability test

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OK, well. It's based on "hot words".

In this case:

This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words:

• torture (10x)
• rape (7x)
• suicide (3x)
• dangerous (2x)
• pain (1x)

Conservatives are more complex

Jonathan Haidt, associate professor of psychology at the University of Virginia ... has shown what is obvious to most of us: Liberals run on a pretty simple clock, whereas the clockwork of conservatives is far more advanced and complex.

Haidt argues that human morality is a cultural construction built on top of - and constrained by - a small set of evolved psychological systems. He presents evidence that political liberals rely primarily on two of these systems, involving emotional sensitivities to harm and fairness. Conservatives, however, construct their moral understandings on those two systems plus three others, which involve emotional sensitivities to in-group boundaries, authority and spiritual purity. (emphasis added; source: Brightsurf)

Got that? Liberals are worried that the guppy doesn't get hurt and that everyone sings Kumbaya with perfectly balanced voice quality. Conservatives are all for not harming and being fair, but create a much more complex structure for their moral measurements.

Adding in-group boundaries basically means we conservatives are conformists and are more likely to find immorality in the wanton destruction of social mores than liberals, who tend to see such destruction as a moral attribute. Rage against the machine, fight the man. Authority means, of course, respect for authority. Liberals get no moral readings from that attribute, but it's big to conservatives.

Haidt's last point is interesting: the spiritual roots of moral decisions. I think he's wrong here because his survey focuses on religion, not on beliefs. Dennis Prager correctly states that there is more dogma in the Liberal faith system (environmentalism, human rights, tolerance) than in any established religion. If Haidt had designed his survey instrument differently, I believe "core belief systems" would have scored as high with the liberals as with the conservatives, if not higher.

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Harm and fairness are very simple psychological systems. If there's a bruise, it's harm and it's immoral. But a conservative wants to know whether the bruised party was with the authorities or not with them before making a judgment.

Similarly, fairness means fairness for all, which is why liberals have such a problem with Guantanamo, demanding equal judicial rights for terrorist combatants captured on the battle field. Conservatives will question whether those terrorists crossed the moral boundaries of our society, whether they're a threat to the nation (authority), and whether their motives were morally pure.

political typology

The Pew Research Center looks at the population, classifying them in nine political categories.

Neocon quiz

According to this quiz, I am "most likely" a realist.

(Hat tip: Betsy Newmark.)

Nothing to shake a spear at...

(Hat tip: Bill Keezer)

Your Dominant Intelligence is Linguistic Intelligence

You are excellent with words and language. You explain yourself well. An elegant speaker, you can converse well with anyone on the fly. You are also good at remembering information and convicing someone of your point of view. A master of creative phrasing and unique words, you enjoy expanding your vocabulary. You would make a fantastic poet, journalist, writer, teacher, lawyer, politician, or translator.

What Kind of Intelligence Do You Have?