Hooray, Jane is back! I’d prefer it if you returned clutching Milihelen with a letter of apology from management for scrapping it, but I’ll gladly take this. Welcome back!

This is cool.

LONG LIVE MILLIHELEN

This was pretty familiar to me. I was a Deputy Sheriff/CO for a few years, and I almost lost my family because I couldn’t let go of the mindset. I can’t say I saw all the screaming that the author describes, but then again, maybe we were just calmer abusive assholes.   

You can judge a country by how it treats its prisoners and in this case the prison visitors

I know this is Jezebel and you love to be snarky, but the live-action Paddington movie was critically acclaimed. It’s a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes

I didn’t think the live action movie was that bad....actually, I found it rather charming and sweet at parts.

There’s a cute statue of Paddington bear in Lima Peru. It made me so happy to see it when I was there.http://assets.atlasobscura.com/media/W1siZiIsInVwbG9hZHMvcGxhY2VfaW1hZ2VzLzc5NDQ1OTlkM2YxZmUyOTdkOV9CZWFyIDQuanBnIl0sWyJwIiwidGh1bWIiLCJ4MzkwPiJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcXVhbGl0eSA5MSAtYXV0by1vcmllbnQiXV0

Paddington’s mum, Shirley Clarkson, died a few years ago.

“Ten months later, he’s found not guilty of robbery in the first degree.”

Gosh. I found the live-action movie delightful.

35 million copies over 60 years, in multiple language, in dozens of countries, a book that’s always in bookstore displays... seems incredibly low to me? 500,000ish a year? And that’s spread over a few dozen different book?

I can definitely see wanting to be able to do a little bit of standing here and there at work but always find it sort of interesting that people in my office who are nearly evangelical about standing desks and their importance in a workplace are the same people who are in meetings almost nonstop all day.

They also tend…

People, mostly spoiled white guys, who have never had a job where you can’t sit down for 8 hours or more.

Also . .

The more interesting story here is the full context of the Halsey quote, in which she tries to swerve around a tough question regarding being a “socially conscious artist” while featuring the homophobic Migos on her album:

If you know anyone who questions the need for the FDA, steer them to the book Dark Remedy by Brynner and Stephens. Unbelievable, the shit drug makers got away with before thalidomide.

This is a great reminder of why the FDA isn’t all evil. There’s a current trend toward ‘indie’ cosmetics and while I’m sure many are tested and perfectly safe - they aren’t all tested by the FDA and could use unsafe products. Nothing against indie products, but if you’re buying an indie product, you better know what’s…

Sure, but regulation killed poison makers’ jobs.