Synthetic Sex: Will Your Daughter-in-Law be a Robot?

This is truly pathetic.  Some company in New Jersey (where else) has invented "the world's first sex robot."  It is a fake woman with realistic skin, facial features, eyes, hair and other unmentionables.  Now women don't have to fake orgasms as the whole woman will be fake, so nobody cares.

Those of us who are hoping our last remaining son will get married and start a family have a new threat:  a robot for a daughter-in-law.  Unless the robot can produce live grandchildren, that will be cold comfort.  Hmm, not to fear, the company, True Companion LLC, can just do a follow up line of fake grandchildren.  They will spill milk, scatter cookie crumbs and break things by remote control.  When they get tiresome you can just switch them off.

In any case, think of the possibilities.  The world's biggest Nerd can now get a date.  (Not me, I retired from the dating scene years ago.)  It will no longer be necessary to attain social skills, to carry on a conversation, to learn table manners, or even to clean your fingernails.  Just plug her in and she's ready to go.  If she gets bitchy, just reboot.

This all reminds me of an old Yul Brynner movie, "West World," that came out around 1973.  Vacationers to a high tech amusement park could make love to sexy robot women in a cowboy setting.  Of course, high tech things have to be programmed and programs have bugs, and there's nothing worse than a pissed-off, turbo-charged robot...

Ridiculous! Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Back in 2007, when Al Gore won the "Nobel Peace Prize" I posted an article called "Nobel Peace Prize:  a Leftist Farce."  Today this leftwing organization again covered itself in shame by awarding the prize to another leftwing incompetent, Barack Obama.  The UK Times Online has the best summary and description of this year's award (hat tip Left Coast Rebel):

Rarely has an award had such an obvious political and partisan intent. It was clearly seen by the Norwegian Nobel committee as a way of expressing European gratitude for an end to the Bush Administration, approval for the election of America’s first black president and hope that Washington will honour its promise to re-engage with the world.

Instead, the prize risks looking preposterous in its claims, patronising in its intentions and demeaning in its attempt to build up a man who has barely begun his period in office, let alone achieved any tangible outcome for peace.

Bloomberg agrees with the Times Online.  They write:

While the Nobel committee has been faulted in the past for making political statements with its choice of laureates, the Obama award marked the first time it honored a head of state for laying out a vision rather than for practical accomplishments.

The honor is a “premature canonization,” said Fred Greenstein, a historian at Princeton University. “It seems to me that it is an embarrassment for the Nobel process.”

Paul at Powerline says the award may prove a negative for Obama:

If it's any consolation to readers who have expressed distress, I think this award will prove to be an embarrassment to Obama, and possibly a negative for his presidency, here at home. The award is so absurd that even leftists have taken note...

I think this award will seal Obama's image as vastly overrated ...

The Nobel Peace Prize is a leftist farce.  I pegged it two years ago.  The prize today is awarded on the basis of the recipient's ideology, not on the basis of any actual accomplishment.  The name of the prize should be changed to the Nobel Prize for Leftwing Dogma, or maybe "the Moonbat Award."

Absurd New Fashion Trend

This model is modeling a new fashion emerging in London.

What on earth were they thinking?

The Pac Man look is so eighties!