I don’t understand why the university felt obligated to specifically designate the money for anything. It seems like they should have simply stuck it in the general operating fund.

Regardless, spending even a dime of the bequest on football ought to be a firing offense at any school, even the SEC or something. They’re CAA for crying out loud. My alma mater’s in the same conference. If an alum or employee died and left the school $4 million and they spent it on adding a second screen and a couple…

Paltrow & Jolie are from Hollywood families. If Blythe Danner’s daughter and John Voight’s daughter didn’t feel comfortable speaking up for fear of repercussions, what does that tell you about the level of power Harvey Weinstein had over the entertainment industry? I hope this illustrates for people how deep this…

They can make them with the eyes closed. Like a sleeping cat. My neighbor has one that purrs and it gives her great comfort (dementia patient in her own home)

My grandma (who has severe dementia) has one and loves it! She seems to go back and forth between thinking it’s real and knowing it’s a toy. Either one pleases her, though, so it’s all good. :)

It seems silly but these and other robot pets are used a LOT with dementia patients and others who need to be soothed but are in facilities that can’t have therapy pets on duty all the time. I read a story over on Gizmodo, I think, about a woman who woke up in a panic at 2 am looking for her parents (both long dead),…

Why wouldn’t she be?

Meanwhile, over at Ziggy’s Stardust the women’s union is still fighting for right to vote.

Can’t turn them away for emergency care, but they can still foot them with a hefty bill. Hospitals will turn them away for subsequent care that isn’t deemed an emergency, like physical therapy to help bodies heal from fucking bullet wounds. PT is incredibly expensive but absolutely necessary after such trauma. GTFO of…

How timely.

Saw him a couple weeks ago on a whim and so grateful we did. Sang our hearts out to every song. He may have the most consistently epic catalog of songs by any artist... Despite knowing this was his last major tour, the show really felt like a goodbye... I had a weird feeling in my gut about it. Sorry, just processing…

“I have a granddaughter now I’d like to see as much as I can. I don’t want to spend my life on the road.” Jesus, that is heartbreaking. RIP Mr. Petty.

Last I checked, more people voted for Hillary than Trump. They were just undermined by a system that assumed that both the people, existing government and electoral college would be a proper safeguard from this brand if corruption.

Oh, honey, it wasn’t the liberals. It was the people who voted for Trump (19%), the people who stayed home (? %), the people who were scammed by the Russians, and the people who signed on to assist in voter suppression, voter disenfranchisement, and gerrymandering.

As a reminder, these are people teaching a roomful of students that pay well over the average income of a family to be at college. At $3K per course, teaching 10 students, the teacher is bringing in $30K per class per term for the university. If they teach two classes per term, that’s $120K per year. They’re seeing…

Let’s be real here, a three year old phone isn’t that old. Yeah in the days of 2 year upgrade cycles maybe but there haven’t been that big of leaps in technology and the new iOS isn’t that big of a change. Getting it to run as well as iOS 10 shouldn’t be that difficult.

The only thing that popped into my head was, “When did these assholes become experts on DNA?”

Exactly what I was thinking. I was wondering where exactly the “monstrosity” was in that rendering.

A 5 story building across the street from 3 story townhouses? The HORROR!

Im so innocent I really thought she was bragging about how she now has enough money to afford a horse