Boobquake - We Need A Double-Blind Test

Jen McCreight's "Boobquake" is quite the meme.  On April 26, women all over the globe will wear their most revealing outfits.  The idea is to demonstrate to Iranian cleric Ayatollah Kazem Sedighi that he is full of shit.

The facebook event alone has attracted 14,000 participants (including your truly).

I applaud this effort but unfortunately the experiment is flawed.  If women in random geographies wear provocative clothing, we will no doubt experience an earthquake or two in some of those areas.  Alaska, for example, has multiple earthquakes on a daily basis.  Random statistical clustering is to be expected, sadly not demonstrating that this Iranian cleric is talking arse gravy.

In order to thoroughly test this we need a number of control groups.

Control Group 1:  Women dressed in burqas in an area not typically known to experience earthquakes

Control Group 2:  Women dressed in burqas in an area frequently known to experience earthquakes

Control Group 3:  Women dressed in burqas in an area occasionally known for earthquakes

Control Group 4:  Women dressed in jeans and sweats in an area not typically known to experience earthquakes

Control Group 5:  Women dressed in jeans and sweats in an area frequently known to experience earthquakes

Control Group 6:  Women dressed in jeans and sweats in an area occasionally known for earthquakes

Control Group 7:  Women dressed immodestly in an area not typically known to experience earthquakes

Control Group 8:  Women dressed in immodestly in an area frequently known to experience earthquakes

Control Group 9:  Women dressed in immodestly in an area occasionally known for earthquakes

Control Group 10:  Naked women in an area not typically known to experience earthquakes

Control Group 11:  Naked women in an area frequently known to experience earthquakes

Control Group 12:  Naked women in an area occasionally known for earthquakes

Control Group 13:  Copulating naked women in an area not typically known to experience earthquakes

Control Group 14:  Copulating naked women in an area frequently known to experience earthquakes

Control Group 15:  Copulating naked women in an area occasionally known for earthquakes

Control Group 16:  All of the above but with men, and then again the above with men engaging in homosexual activities and/or thoughts.

I am volunteering to observe and document Control Group 10, for purely scientific reasons you understand

Oh Noes, Iceland Is Under The Wrath of A God, But Which One?

A volcano is currently spewing ash and causing air traffic chaos of biblical proportions with thousand's of flights canceled for the foreseeable future.

I was wondering what Iceland has done to deserve the anger of a deity and in particular which deity this seemingly innocuous country had annoyed?  However, after an embarrassingly scant piece of research I discovered that the country is extremely liberal (i.e. not bigoted) with regards to its equality laws relating to the LGBT community.  See this wiki article for more information.  They also believe in the existence of elves and the "hidden people" known as Álfaskólinn, and even have a school to educate the inhabitants of the country of fire and ice about their "other citizens".  I can imagine that this alone would piss off the Abrahamic god of the Bible big time, and especially so if the elves were gay too.  I saw no mention of the rights of gay elves in the Icelandic legislation so maybe this is a none issue.

So that seems to solve the problem of which god is pissed off at Iceland, it must be YHWH as he (she/it?) has a seriously dubious track record of bringing wrath and much smitingness to countries that piss him off.

On a more serious note, a buddy of mine is trapped in the UK due to the flight cancellations, and  he has my replacement supply of English marmalade's with him, so I'm going to have to ration the small amount that I currently have left in my pantry.  Damn you YHWH, thanks for nothing!