As horrific as the case of the 10yo Ohio rape victim who had to go to Indiana for an abortion, and as horrific as the Christian zealots' reaction has been, it is important to say abortion is a human right to all who want it and not just in the most horrific of circumstances. https://t.co/J1xGpo4UdP
— Mona Eltahawy (@monaeltahawy) July 14, 2022
Exactly. Bodily autonomy is the primary basis of all other rights.
I still hate smartphones. Could’ve been great.
Weren’t.
Someone told me the other day that I looked like Chester Bennington* from Linkin Park. I’m not a real Linkin Park fan, but do like a few of their songs, particularly “In The End.” I think this cover captures the feel of the original while being completely different.
A lot of people who cover that song don’t really understand it. Gordi does, so the cover works even though nearly everything about it is musically changed up.
*Yes, I know he’s dead.
I’d forgotten how excellent Mary Stuart Masterson is in the 1987 film Some Kind of Wonderful. Mainly because I haven’t seen that film since 1987. She acts her heart out in that work.
Underrated 1980s movie. Goddamn, 1987 feels like such a foreign place now. I remember it pretty clearly and while I wouldn’t want to go back, I also could not go back; I’d no longer have any idea how to operate there anymore. I could speak the language but not exist with the assumptions and expectations that they (we) aligned with then. I’d be an alien even more than I was when I was actually there.
One of the big changes that is that music was extremely important to us in a way that is just not now. It wasn’t just background noise, or a time filler, as it is currently. It was a passion — there’s a reason that they made Watts’ character a drummer in the film and why the movie is just saturated with music. I think there is a lot of great music now, don’t get me wrong, but it just doesn’t take up nearly as much cultural space, or hold the same import, as it did back then.
Some people really do think that Covid is gonna be some mass disabling event that, like, ends civilization. And yet they don’t think the same thing about obesity and the chronic disease load that leads to.
Interesting.
How Panda Express won over customers with a made-up dish.
All dishes are made up. And so are all holidays. BTW, most “traditional” dishes are only 50-100 years old. There’s a very good chance your grandmother would be unfamiliar with the dish that you think is so very traditional. Authenticity is a sham.
China’s Economic Growth Slows Sharply as Covid Policy Takes a Toll.
Hmm, the libs told me lockdowns helped the economy, and Zero Covid helped most of all.
So…that wasn’t true? SHOCKED
Meant to address this over a week ago but, ironically, I've had Covid, so not been up to it.
But with cases rising alarmingly and there being a decent chance they'll be reintroduced, here are some psychological explanations for resistance to #facemasks
— Dean Burnett (@garwboy) July 13, 2022
LOL. No. I love this clownworld stuff (speaking of clowns…).
People don’t like masks because they are hellishly uncomfortable, make it hard to breathe (that’s not just psychological, or rather the psychological is part of breathing you fucking clown!), and the one he actually mentions: it’s difficult to read faces, and much harder to express yourself.
This weirdo shit in attempt to explain the obvious is one reason I want nothing to do with most “smart” people.
People who believe survivorship bias explains all success have no chance of survival.
Is there anything I can get from a store bought daily vitamin that I can’t get from eating range fed beef or elk liver once or twice a week? Not being facetious, genuinely asking
— Ariel Greenwood (@greenwoodae) July 13, 2022
If you don’t have a nutritional deficit, vitamin supplements will give you just about nothing. No reason to take them unless you suspect this or your doctor tells you that you should.
I’m against teams because they are teams, no matter their ideology. Teams, tribes, groups, whatever you want to call them. I can’t be a part of any of that, because you always, always end up having to sell your soul to stay among those who belong.
Soul not for sale (unless…you have pizza?).
“The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” is probably the best short story ever written. Doing so much in 2800 words. Dang. To quote Emily Ratajkowski about writing, I could never.
Also, I’ve hated everything that N.K. Jemisin has ever written that I’ve read so far. The woke proselytizers just don’t seem capable of penning anything actually worth reading.
They fell in love on vacation in 1971. They’ve been together for 50 years.
Modern liberals: “That’s definite sexual harassment. Also, he looks a few years older than her, so there has to be an enormous power imbalance. Terrible story.”
Normal people: “Die in a fire.”
Though this review of Run, Hide, Fight is rather basic, it is right about what made this movie worth a damn and it was all Isabel May. Never seen her before in anything but her performance was great.
The rest of the movie was fairly mediocre; it should’ve leaned more into the Die Hard premise and away from the other things it tried to throw in. Thus, the film was at its best when May was allowed to be believably tough and driven and at its worst when it started to more obviously resort to pointless didacticism. Yes, we get it, school shootings are bad — no need to stress the point. (Though I did like the school shooter’s line that getting guns was the easy part of his plan.)
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hat I particularly liked about the film is that May’s character Zoe doesn’t ever show any signs of any superhero capabilities or engage in any impossible feats. For instance, when she attempts to fight hand to hand with a guy twice her size and weight with no weapons of her own, she gets her ass kicked easily (this is what happens in real life 99.99% of the time).
I recommend the film if you like realistic tough heroines, don’t mind some moments that fall utterly flat, and also do not mind one of the shooters waving around the fakest-looking .357 revolver in the history of the world.
May makes this film worth watching.
Ohio Is Proposing a Ban on All Vaccine Mandates, Not Just Covid-19.
Red states are mostly going to become disease-ridden impoverished violent health-care-free no-go zones even if the United States manages to stay, well, united. Get out while you can; this future is now inevitable.