eat, sleep, and protest

the efficiency of it all almost makes this nicer than tiny NYC apartments

do you think this app might help? free to try. although maybe you're already cured?

sad  happy desk park bench lunch

colleges don't just take athletes' rights

this is so outdated now but i had it in my original post. godaddy's marketing arm is a genius - thousands of protests for a superbowl ad a week before the superbowl. then again, i'm not entirely sure that the marketing division would realize this ad was so controversial. i still don't know what's wrong with it. (was the dog hurt while filming? are dogs not really sold online already? is this ad encouraging animal abuse?)

oh god it's starting

the best thing i've heard in awhile. when i toured carpenter's shelter, i found that it was the only shelter of its kind in alexandria or arlington and that they get homeless people even from d.c. with so many homeless people in D.C. it's shocking that there aren't more shelters. but i guess that explains why so many of them are sleeping on the streets.

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1. that article made me very sad because it seemed like the frat boys were still under suspicion and if they had said anything too strongly about their innocence, they would have been attacked. it's like instead of defending themselves, they had to defend the rights of sexual assault victims. it's as if someone gets released from wrongfully being convicted of murder and has to give a speech on how the true victims are murder victims (i guess he would not be wrong there but a little "boo-yah i'm so glad to be free" is usually allowed).

2. i heard somewhere that wahlberg wants to join police enforcement or something? in any case, i don't know why he would need a pardon and his crimes have not been in the public eye for decades so there's no good in bringing them up now. i think he did really terrible things and should probably try to make up for it but i never liked him as an actor or model anyway. of course, it would be about time for the victims to let go of their anger. people do change and even if they don't, the anger isn't going to do any good.

3. "If women had more time, they worried, they would simply be tasked with more work." this seems like a weird rationale against women having more time. and what a weird relationship dynamic - as if husbands were actively monitoring their wives' productivity, noticing their extra time and coming up with new tasks for women to do.
4. i feel like i should feel sadder about the demise of skymall than i do.

5. i'm not sure it's entirely necessary to identify the terrorists as radical islamists but it doesn't make sense to say that the charlie hebdo attack had nothing to do with islam. i'm sure identifying the motivations for the terrorists is more important for the administration or the intelligence community but doesn't the public already kinda understand that it's islam and isn't the public already a little anti-muslim? maybe it makes sense for the media to downplay it so long as the administration knows that is has everything to do with islam.

6. i don't think kanye was defending beyonce because he thinks she's helpless. i think he just thinks it's the right thing to do. i think it's kanye's form of respect.

7. well i will eat some eggs to toast that.
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4. that's true. maybe we should stop glorifying ants, those gross dumb but hardworking creatures.

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2. that seems like a workable cable strategy. i've heard such good things about espn classic though. they talk about it so fondly on the o.c.

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2. well i think we have to assume the fire isn't moving so quickly as to engulf you before you can come up with a game plan. also i guess it depends if you can just put stuff outside your door and into the hallway and they'll be safe, maybe you'd just move everything out there in a reasonable fashion while bear or penguin kept watch.

do you like any of these designs bear?

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The UVA Rolling Stone scandal appears to be at an end.  We should probably take a moment to think about some of the actual victims.

Mark Wahlberg is seeking a pardon for a crime that he committed many years ago and whose sentence he has already served.  I'm not sure I get why this is so important to him, but I understand even less why this is so important to the victims.  I thought the quote, "If you're a racist, you're always going to be a racist," from the victim was pretty troubling.

Rich Lowry discusses a worsening trend in discussing attacks by radical Islamic terrorists.

It's the end of an era.

Crock-Pots are pretty popular right now, but not without controversy.

I always liked Shirley Manson.

Cholesterol is getting its reputation back.

Responses:

1. I think I'm taking a break from the self-help genre.  Even though those books appear to have meatier ideas than what you find in the grocery store checkout line, I think my issues come down to execution rather than mindset.

2. That seems like a reasonable diet plan.  It's not flashy, and it's doable.  That said, some of the meals were a little meh, but that's true with fancier diet plans too.

3. Those are some great articles.  I liked the cookie breakdown - it reminded me of the Good Eats episode about cookies.

4. The last three paragraphs kinda undermine the entire article...

5. That's a little scary, but less so if you think that this is often how love works generally.  You get to know someone, and no terrible things happen in the interim, and the initial attraction plus knowledge and trust (which comes from revealing personal details about yourself) gets you there.  It also makes the fact of arranged marriages or marriages of economic convenience from earlier in our history a bit more palatable.

6. We've already discussed this.

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1. In Team America, Kim Jong-Il is portrayed as being killed in rather hilarious fashion.  The funny thing is that many theaters that wanted to show The Interview said that they would show Team America instead after The Interview was pulled, but they were told that they couldn't.

4. Cable companies could lower their prices and put a stop to all (or perhaps most) of this - after all, bundling plus lower prices means savings and ease for consumers.  But it's not all the fault of cable companies.  Take Disney, for example.  They own ESPN (which includes ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNNEWS, and others), Disney Channel, ABC, ABC Family, A&E, and others.  The reason the cable company includes all of these channels is less because they want to make us buy them and charge for it and more because Disney wants to make the cable company buy all those channels and turn around and sell them to us for more money.  This particular innovation (along with HBO's decision to sell HBO GO separately) means that the various TV producers can individually decide what to overcharge me for, thus allowing me to avoid the monopoly rents of the cable companies and just pay fees to the companies whose services I want.  Maybe I still end up with a channel or two I could do without (I've watched ESPN Classic maybe twice), but I'd rather pay $40/month for the ESPN Suite than $100 for 5 million channels, most of which are either dumb, made redundant by Hulu, Netflix, or Amazon Prime, or feature just one show that I can buy on iTunes for $25.

My ideal scenario is to have ESPN (not yet available separately), Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, some mechanism to get network channels for sports, and iTunes for any shows I'm forgetting about.

5. PETA is the worst.

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2. I'd save my external hard drive (with my computer backups), my wallet and passport, my phone, and not much of anything else.  There are other things I'd like to save, but I wouldn't want to be deliberating as the fire took hold of my possessions and then possibly me.

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