My thought is why does a Green Beret need to weigh 220 pounds? Wouldn’t it be more efficient to get rid of the big dudes who take up more room/weight on a helicopter and require more food, probably move slower, etc., etc., etc? How much of special forces activities in combat rely on bench pressing?

Yeah. The original used the choreography to express the emotions of characters in conflict, and was absolutely character driven. (I’m not ashamed to say that I couldn’t leave the theater because I was sobbing so hard at the end of the movie.) This is presented as a basic object quest.

I guess we’ll never know since they never asked.

Her attitude appears to be “there is no such thing as rape when alcohol is involved”, yet somehow also, “the choice of women and girls to drink alcohol causes rape.”

I have a friend who owns a few “mixology” bars and he won’t even serve vodka. He considers it the the ketchup of liquors, a lazy and ultimately vulgar way to transmit alcohol without adding any worthwhile flavor to a drink. He hooked me up with booze for my wedding and I had to convince him that, yes, I was going to…

He’s a more recent blind taste test with regular people, not professional tasters. Smirnoff wins again.

The first time I had Chopin neat, it totally changed my understanding of what vodka could be.

What? Nader didn’t touch on ANY of that (minus a throwaway, and unsupported claim about “stock and bond processor” jobs). The only thing he addressed was savings accounts and CD interest rates.

Of course he thinks Akerlof is more qualified. Why else would he suggest a consultation? Tim Robbins liked Nader’s “pro-consumer” outlook in 2000, so should Yellen be encouraged to defer to his (complete lack of) expertise?

He won his prize for information asymmetry in markets, not federal interest rates. His work is much more market based.

Even if you assume that her husband is “more qualified” in the area of monetary policy (that wasn’t the basis of his prize, so I’m not sure why anyone would make that assumption), you’d have to continue that logic to say that Yellen is far more qualified than in monetary economics than Nader could ever hope to be.…

Unfortunately for this study, those made up conjunctions do have meanings. I work with a wide variety of financial concepts, and while I’ve never heard those terms before (obviously), I can easily derive a sense of what the words mean, and they make sense. (Except for the pre-rated stocks. That’s either nonsense or…

Also, “accommodating” is not a synonym for “pandering”. Arguably, one can only pander to those who have power over one.

The important thing is that you made it out of Greenville

The practitioner at delivery thing is what bothers me the most, and we’re going with a doula to make up the difference. Fortunately, we can afford the expense out of pocket, but it’s the best of both world’s for us.

Agreed.

This is a really good point. The doula I’m leaning toward using also gives birthing classes and her first goal, both as a teacher and doula, is to prepare women and couple’s to be psychologically okay with birthing plans not going perfectly. That’s actually a lot of what drew me to her, especially since any doula is…

The birthing center we had our child at was staffed by two naturopathic doctors and a midwife nurse

Right, the big argument for midwives is that most pregnancies do not require the full-on resource deployment of an ob-gyn delivering in highly equipped setting.

I’m an old lady with a history of miscarriages and so am under waaaaaay more medical care than the average pregnant lady and I have never — not once — been pressured to undergo a procedure, test, or screening I did not want. My doctor has done nothing but explain everything to me fully and has actively avoided telling…