As soon as I located everybody's financials I'm doing their taxes!

[conuly]

It'll be good for this not to be hanging over our heads.

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I Loved My First Monster Truck Rally

The Man Who Made Violins Out of New York City Buildings

The Russian Chef Who Is Bringing Back His Homeland's Colorful, Classic Cuisine

The Prolific Illustrator Behind Kewpies Used Her Cartoons for Women’s Rights

Amateur Canadian scientists discovered a new type of northern lights and promptly named it ‘Steve’

'Am I OK with my son oinking in Swedish?' (Pigs say neuf in Belgian French as well, though not in France. My grandmother told us the joke about how you can tell pigs are smarter than birds - birds go huit huit huit, but pigs go neuf neuf nuef. This is very funny when you are six and almost all you can say in French is the numbers through 20.)

A Cultural Leap at the Dawn of Humanity

Streets deserted, airport closes for Bali's Day of Silence

The Student Yearbooks of a Japanese-American Detention Camp

Spices might get teens to like vegetables (No shit, really!?)

Myanmar forces Burman culture on minorities, erases identity

How Blood-Plasma Companies Target the Poorest Americans

The Koch Brothers Tried to Spread Fake News in Black Churches. It Did Not Go Well. (Am I the only one who imagines the Koch brothers as Statler and Waldorf?)

White Evangelical Women, Core Supporters of Trump, Begin Tiptoeing Away

How I saw Stephen Hawking's death as a disabled person

Ethnic Uighurs protest Chinese security crackdown

The Dollars and Desperation Silencing #MeToo in Music

Why Reading Sherman Alexie Was Never Enough

Report: Abortion is safe but barriers reduce quality of care

Civilians flee as two big Syria battles enter decisive phases

Comments

[silailo]

The thing about Sherman Alexie is just devastating because I'm from Spokane. I think there's an art installation or something downtown that has words from a poem he wrote.

I also love Smoke Signals to bits. ;_;

[conuly]

Sigh.

[isis]

I loved the article about "Steve"!

[conuly]

YES.

[hamsterwoman]

My grandmother told us the joke about how you can tell pigs are smarter than birds - birds go huit huit huit, but pigs go neuf neuf nuef. This is very funny when you are six and almost all you can say in French is the numbers through 20.)

Hee!

(The noises animals make in different languages has always been very interesting to me. With my kids growing up trilingual, it was always neat to see which ones remained pretty close -- dogs, cows -- and which ones didn't even necessarily contain the same sounds -- e.g. frogs, horses, roosters).

On a much less amusing note, oh man, I hadn't heard about the #metoo thing with Sherman Alexie. Damn. :/

[conuly]

On a much less amusing note, oh man, I hadn't heard about the #metoo thing with Sherman Alexie. Damn. :/

Yeah.

[mommy]

Boiled vegetables were a staple in my school cafeteria lunches, and they were always bland and unpalatable. I definitely support adding seasonings to make food actually taste like food.

[conuly]

Seriously, it's not rocket surgery.

[lusentoj]

I read the Swedish oinker one, 'cause I'm Swedish. I don't know why normal bilingualness made the news though.

Everyone I've known who was brought up bilingual was actually WORSE than a normal native speaker, in both languages. "International schools" only make it worse. The thing about them having higher brain plasticity or whatever might be true, but they also don't seem to have the logical "language-learning" skills that a person who's learnt that second language from scratch does (as in, bilingual kids I've met in ex. English and Swedish can't draw even simple connections between English and Swedish, despite them being relatively extremely related languages, because they "just know" them and didn't "learn" them).

Aside from that most kids don't seem to actually realize that they can use their second language in situations not relating to their own family (like, say, watch Russian youtube videos), and they don't seem to read much in either language. It's just a weird trend I've noticed...

[conuly]

Question: How many bilingual-raised-bilingual people do you know?

[lusentoj]

I've personally been friends with around 10 and have met more but only talked with them a few times (classmates, friends of friends or people I quickly dropped as friends etc). So not the whole world, I know.

[greghousesgf]

the Sherman Alexie business was really disturbing. Maybe this is dumb but I get a lot more upset if a celebrity I like gets caught doing creepy shit like that than if it's somebody I never liked in the first place.

[conuly]

Of course you do. That's perfectly normal.

[nodrog]

> Even in the post-#MeToo era, fans and industry professionals have continued to support
> and elevate the careers of men who are accused of harassment, assault, and abuse.

How DARE they.  Don't they KNOW that accusation equals guilt?!  Mere accusation should forever quell ANY inconvenient male…  and women are NEVER harassers!  ALWAYS victims!

Swallow whole, as directed.  For further information please re-read.


- I like how even these people are calling it “the post-#MeToo era.”


               


You've had enough attention for one day, Comrade Rose - sit down.  Yes, there, next to Cindy Sheehan.

[conuly]

Listen, where there's smoke, there's fire.

One accusation might be fictitious, but you're really deluding yourself if you think that five or ten or more are.

[thewayne]

I did ours a week ago today, our NM state return was deposited a couple of days ago (without me receiving notification!) and I'm still waiting on my Federal refund.

I did it myself through H&R Block online, it cost me about $100, whereas it cost about $250 to take in the papers and have them do it last year.

D.C. lawmaker says recent snowfall caused by ‘Rothschilds controlling the climate’

[nodrog]

You seem not to have caught this one.

https://nodrog.dreamwidth.org/2018/03/19/

It IS amusing.  - to me, anyway.