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Can't you just feel the excitement!?

(Blech.)

*******


Meet the birds that work as wingmen for other males

The panel show, an icon of early television, was a purely American invention, yet somehow it’s become deeply associated with modern British TV. Here’s why.

The Long, Strange Legacy of One of the World’s Earliest Fake Mermaids

Incredible new “super wood” is as strong as steel

People Notice There’s Something Wrong With The Rock’s New Movie Poster, And Things Escalate Quickly

On Fat Tuesday, Break an Egg Over Someone’s Head

The Chinese-Mexican Cuisine Born Of U.S. Prejudice

Don’t Glue Anything Without This Handy Reference Chart

How Long Until We’re All Amish?

Life drains from Little Africa as China dream fades for its fortune seekers

Why other countries don't have government shutdowns

Alien honeybees could cause plant extinction (So we shouldn't worry so much about colony losses?)

No one told Babe Ruth he had cancer, but his death changed the way we fight it

Hand-me-down plastic toys may not be good for kids

California police worked with neo-Nazis to pursue 'anti-racist' activists, documents show

Venezuelans rush to the border as Colombia tightens controls

Pediatrician: 'Flu just spread like wildfire' (Still not too late to vaccinate!)

100 Women: Muslim women rally round #MosqueMeToo

Trump administration may target immigrants who use food aid, other benefits

ICE arrests went up in 2017, with biggest increases in Florida, northern Texas, Oklahoma

US border patrol routinely sabotages water left for migrants, report says

Democrats' 'Resistance' to Trump Is Eroding, and So Are Their Poll Numbers (People get tired, but c'mon, we've only got a few months left till the midterms!)

How Did Israel Become a Place of No Refuge?

Believing Rob Porter's denials of domestic abuse lets us ignore the dangers women face

Rob Porter’s History of Domestic Abuse Wasn’t a Secret. It’s Just That No One Cared.

Citing U.S. Prison Conditions, British Appeals Court Refuses to Extradite Accused Hacker Lauri Love to the U.S.

Despite court directive, Alabama still segregates seriously mentally ill prisoners in solitary

Date: 2018-02-10 09:37 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] calimac
Lost my respect for these intellectually studious British panel quiz shows when I saw this clip, because their "correction" is wrong.

True that 4 US states have the official name "commonwealth," but that does not mean they are not states. There are 50 states, not 46 as they claim.

Date: 2018-02-10 04:23 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] calimac
The point of the game seems to be to get people on "gotchas" whether or not those gotchas are factually accurate. I can't respect that.

Date: 2018-02-10 04:23 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] wpadmirer
I like the wingman story and the Rock's poster comments.

Others were depressing as usual.

Date: 2018-02-10 08:51 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] wpadmirer
It's just the times we're in, I think.

Date: 2018-02-11 05:34 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] archangelbeth
*blinks at the date on this post*

...can I borrow your TARDIS?

Date: 2018-02-11 05:39 am (UTC)
archangelbeth: An egyptian-inspired eye, centered between feathered wings. (Default)
From: [personal profile] archangelbeth
...it's a good thing that Dreamwidth has a decent journal-search, I guess, if you ever want to find anything again!

(But seriously, if you find a TARDIS, can I borrow it? *hopeful look* I need to put yarn and books in it.)

Date: 2018-02-11 05:41 am (UTC)
archangelbeth: An egyptian-inspired eye, centered between feathered wings. (Default)
From: [personal profile] archangelbeth
...EXCELLENT.

I'll bring yarn and crochet hooks.

Date: 2018-02-10 07:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elenbarathi.livejournal.com
Ah, 'Shark Week'.

Words can't express how grateful I am to be done with all that. Hang in there; this too shall pass.

Date: 2018-02-11 01:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elenbarathi.livejournal.com
Yeah... I was peri-menopausal for almost ten years: menopause, menoplay, menopause, menoplay... argh! But once it was finally done, WOOHOO! Not only freedom from Shark Week forevermore; the migraines I'd had since puberty also went away. The only down-side of menopause so far is osteopenia, which I can't do that much about at this point; since bone density is mostly built before age 35 - I can try to slow the deterioration, that's all; wish I would have started a lot earlier.

Evolution invented bodies, so I don't think you can sue. We're a bio-history of a million years of trial-and-error; the wonder is that our bodies work as well as they do, considering the vast amount of Murphy's Law in all the aspects of our design. Seriously, creationists are daft; they must think God is Rube Goldberg.

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