A Chilean divorcee lives her life in the quietly brilliant Gloria.
Bethany Jean Clement
Posted inFood and Drink
OMG Stock Up on Sriracha!
The California Department of Public Health has halted shipment of the glorious rooster sauce until mid-January, for what sounds like kind of bogus reasons. “Customers are furious and restaurants are panicking!” says this alarmist teevee news report that is not at all worth waiting through the ad for. (Besides being alarmist, this video also autoplays! […]
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HuffPo Is Ending Anonymous Comments
Arianna says: Trolls are just getting more and more aggressive and uglier, and I just came from London where there are rape and death threats… I feel that freedom of expression is given to people who stand up for what they say and not hiding behind anonymity. We need to evolve a platform to meet […]
Posted inGirls Only!
One Hundred Percent Men
Hey, look, Mom: It’s institutions, clubs, positions, and honors of all kinds that just happen to entirely exclude women, and a hell of a lot of them, like: • All incarnations of the Dalai Lama, ever.• Every annual award given by the National Sportscaster and Sportswriters Association, ever, along with the entire board. • Everyone […]
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An “Important Statement” from the National Rifle Association
Oh, but not TODAY. Or tomorrow. “Out of respect for the families, and as a matter of common decency, we have given time for mourning, prayer and a full investigation of the facts before commenting.” So the “major news conference” from the NRA will be on Friday, “at the appropriate time”—that is, no time actually […]
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A Public (Peanut Butter) Service Announcement
Peanut butter recall, now expanded! (Somehow we missed this so far?) Brand names included in the recall are Archer Farms, Earth Balance, Fresh & Easy, Heinen’s, Joseph’s, Natural Value, Naturally More, Open Nature, Peanut Power Butter, Serious Food, Snaclite Power, Sprouts Farmers Market, Sprout’s, Sunland and Dogsbutter. Two additional Trader Joe’s products are also included […]
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A Lady Debate Moderator??!!
Three New Jersey high-schoolers have pointed out, vis-a-vis the presidential debates, that: …the last woman moderator was Carole Simpson of ABC-News. She did the honors at a 1992 town-hall style event featuring Vice President George H.W. Bush, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton and millionaire Texas businessman Ross Perot… As Axelrod told CNN on Wednesday, the 20-year […]
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Hello Kitty: The Restaurant
With my sincerest apologies for the world in which we live: a photo series, which also includes the Hello Kitty maternity suite and theme park. Also: Hello Kitty bride and groom—you cannot unsee that.
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The Bright Coop E-Z Catch Chicken Harvester
Gizmodo has the video and the headline: Bright Coop’s website shows the E-Z Catch in all its details, and they ain’t pretty. The last graph of the Gizmodo story details how this machine is better for both humans (less carpal tunnel, back strain) and chickens (fewer broken legs and wings) than human chicken-catching. We could […]
Posted inOh, You Kids!
Hello, World!
If you can stand the suspense and gushing giraffe-liquids, you should watch this video of the birth of the Cincinnati Zoo’s new baby giraffe. It is pretty amazing—CLUNK, SPLASH is a hell of a way to enter the world!
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No More Mr. Professional Athlete
…or Ms. Professional Athlete, either, at the Wall Street Journal: Starting this week in The Journal, you will no longer see athletes called “Mr.” or “Ms.” The paper is reversing its stately, conspicuous tradition of using “honorific” courtesy titles in its sports coverage, entering a dizzy modern age of forward passes, shot clocks, Colin Cowherd […]
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Oh. So This is What Portland’s Like
BREAKING NEWS!! NPR Visits Portland; Finds Food Carts, Unemployment, Young White People.