Patton Oswalt on Fighting Conservatives With Satire - The Daily Beast: "It’s like what Roger Ebert used to say, “These people can count beans but they can’t make soup.” These are people who are criticizing comedy who are not funny, who do not get comedy, and all they do is look at the separate words. They don’t look at context. They don’t look at delivery. They don’t understand irony or satire or any of that stuff. They just can look at words. So we’ll just find better ways to look at darker subjects."
Cinema sex-symbol Anita Ekberg dies aged 83 | News | DW.DE | 11.01.2015: "...in an earlier interview, Ekberg had said she was not afraid of death. "I don't know if paradise or hell exist," she told Sweden's Aftonbladet, "but I'm sure hell is more groovy."."
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“Don’t Eat Healthy”Our Carb Confusion | Michael Ruhlman: "So, what exactly are “stripped” carbs? The major stripped carbs are these, she said: in the twentieth century, we created corn starch and corn syrup from the more complex carbs of corn you could actually eat; in the 1800s we stripped rice of its nutritious covering; in the 1700s we stripped flour of its nutritious bran and the germ (with its nutritious oils). These are all stripped carbs, and during the past two hundred years that we’ve increasingly relied on them they didn’t do us any good; during the last fifty years, once they began to compose the majority of our diet, they began to make our country sick on a gigantic scale. The kind of scale that, were a foreign country to wreak such havoc on our children, we would bomb them. Instead, we subsidize them. (As was noted in the very good documentary Fed Up.) This is unacceptable. You personally should not accept this.
“People need to understand there are nutritious carbohydrates,” she says, noting that there are three categories of food molecules: proteins, fats, and carbohydrates. Fruit is good, vegetables are good, even sweet corn and peas and grapes, high-sugar fruits and vegetables, carbohydrates all, because they have, she explained, a fiber matrix that make their conversion to blood sugar slow, and this has all kinds of metabolic benefits I’m not going to go into here. Stripped carbs, though, are no different really than a spoonful of sugar, triggering a flood of insulin to carry this sugar to our cells. How did this explosion of bad carbs happen?
Sukol says it began when “some very savvy marketers in Battle Creek, Michigan, began to teach us to behave in some certain ways.” Battle Creek is, of course, the birthplace of Kellogg’s and Post cereals. The first thing Sukol advises her patients is to stay away from the bad carbs before noon. It’s just a hunch, but she thinks from experience there’s something particularly harmful about eating things like Special K or Corn Flakes before noon. Not to mention our other breakfast staples that are mainly carbs: toast, bagels, muffins, pancakes, waffles, and on and on. But really it’s that Transformer-sized aisle smack in the middle of your grocery store filled with boxes and boxes and boxes of cereals, that hulking behemoth so vast and diverse it astonishes people from other countries. That is a ground zero of a kind of unrecognized terrorism wrought on parents by our own farmers in every, city, town, and suburb of America."
"Time Magazine hits all time low with pathetic @nickgillespie article on #foiegras. Will he vote back #slavery too? @TIME shame" - Hit & Run : Reason.com: "In order to ban a choice that is as personal as food, government at any level should have extremely compelling reasons related to public health and safety for doing so. Simply finding something offensive is no more a warrant for prohibition than censoring art that you find disturbing. In the case of the foie gras, animal rights activists could only express concern for the birds that are traditionally force-fed in the production of foie gras. All animals that are ultimately slaughtered for human consumption may have our sympathy and our empathy. They do not, however, have rights that are equal to ours. The basic problem helps to explain why the California ban was written in a way that critics presciently called both constitutionally vague and impossible to enforce.... Which isn’t to say that people opposed to foie gras have no means of carrying the day. They can work to end the market for foie gras and other animal products through persuasion and informational campaigns. But they cannot and should not bank on using the coercive power of the state to force their subjective value judgements on the rest of us who have a taste for foie gras or other delicacies they find abhorrent."
Florida Police's Use of Sex Crime and Forfeiture Law Draws Ire - The Atlantic: "Predictably, many of the men arrested in these cases never went to trial because district attorneys didn't want to prosecute cases grounded in such dubious police tactics. If this approach 1) targeted men who almost certainly represented no actual threat to minors 2) in a way that made successful prosecutions relatively unlikely, why were police doing this? One incentive was the availability of federal funds earmarked for sex predator stings. Another factor: asset forfeiture, which allows police to seize the property of people who are arrested even if they aren't convicted."
Cook Your Own Food. Eat What You Want.(Think for Yourself.) | Michael Ruhlman: "What America has is a living problem. America seems to think that the answer to how to eat can be found on the news, from studies, from your doctor (who’s reading the same reports you are and following the same party line now being contradicted by that “small body of unsettling data”), not even from your mayor. The data that matters to me is the data I receive after I’ve finished eating something. Do I feel good after eating a roast chicken with gravy and mashed potatoes and a pile of shaved sautéed Brussels sprouts? Yes. How about after I eat a bag of Cheetos? Not so good. What does that mean? Think about it. Think. Do you feel good after you exercise? Yes, because it’s good for you. Or you can hunt for data on the Internets if you want The Truth. Go ahead, read up on it. Or watch all the “a new study finds” stories on the ABC Nightly News. Part of the problem is our obsession with longevity rather than quality of life. Why can’t we become obsessed with good rather than long? Sure I’d prefer 90 healthy years to 75 healthy years. But do I want 75 healthy years followed by 5 years of mental and physical decline, followed by 10 years of increasing dementia that puts a strain on my family?
...Me, if I have a really good meal, al fresco, say, followed by an espresso and an eau de vie and someone offers me a cigarette? I’m going to have it. I love a cigarette. What a pleasure with, say, a grappa overlooking the harbor of Portofino on my 49th birthday. Damn, that was a good cigarette. But I have no intention of addicting myself again, because that will give me the lung cancer and emphysema that killed my dad. I’d sooner eat straight sugar than drink a regular Coke, but am I going to forgo duck confit and bacon so that I can eke out 90 years? Are you kidding me? Shoot me now. I’m sorry, I just get so goddam sick of studies and data telling me how to live, reading about this or that new diet that’s going to take pounds off my body and add countless Sound of Music years to my life. My hunch is that people don’t actually want to live longer—I think people want to be happier, to be more at ease with who they are, to feel glad when they wake up rather than dreadful, to feel good at the end of the day instead of crummy. "
The Remedial Red Pill |: "2. “The most popular trope is that ideas of gender are a social construct and that women and men are comparative equals and only their physical plumbing makes them different in form only.” There is evidence that exactly this is true. This is interesting, because she cites no evidence. That’s because there is exactly zero evidence this is the case and increasingly science is proving exactly the opposite, much to the ideological discomfort of “equalists”. Men and women’s brains are literally wired differently... But we don’t even need those studies to grasp this most basic of human truths – we already know that men and women’s biochemistry and endocrinology work and affect their respective sex’s bodies and minds differently. Whether it’s the dominant presence of estrogen, progesterone and oxytocin in women or the dominant presence of testosterone in men, the body state – behavioral effects and emotional stimulus of those hormones make us fundamentally different beings – and that’s a good thing. Complementarianism benefits women and men."
Control the frame, control the argument. Shallow |: "There are a lot of applications women will use “shallow” for, but the primary use is to shame men’s natural arousal/attraction cues being based on physicality...
The operative question; Why should the importance Men place on the physical always be characterized as “superficial”? Why is it that a man is “shallow” for following his biological imperative, while a woman seeking commitment is considered “prudent”? Because women are only acting on behalf of their own biological imperatives when they do so... if men can be made to believe that a woman’s best interest is actually his own, she retains control of the frame. How do they effect this? Repeat it over and over until men identify with it and it becomes a societal norm. This then places men into a state of internal conflict – they’re not supposed to want hot women for fear of being deemed “shallow”, but yet they always seem to find themselves attracted to, and aroused by, the most physically ideal women they encounter...
It’s a man’s biological imperative to mate with as many fit and attractive females, while it’s a woman’s imperative to choose the male who is best capable of satisfying hypergamy and providing her with long term security, and by default to ultimately share in parental investment... [but] society calls a man ‘shallow’ and a woman ‘wise’ for embracing the sexual strategies and arousal cues nature has dealt for them."
Richard Kadrey's Damn Tumblr: "The future is now. Meet the Robotic Spider Dress. Techno Couture from Anouk Wipprecht, a dress with insect-like robotic limbs which react to the proximity of others."
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