The thing I feel about a lot of personal books about foreigners going to North Korea is that those people are so controlled, isolated and inundated in propaganda (not speaking the language, the only people they can talk to are their government handlers) that they pretty much have to rely on outside scholarship to fill…

I think she may have been a lot more accurate than most foreign writers over there

someone—“often white, often male, inevitably hostile”—would challenge her work, claiming North Korea wasn’t that bad

Have you heard Jenny Slate and Chris Evan’s podcast with Anna Faris (joined by Chris Pratt in Part Two)?

Road to Avonlea was half-funded by Disney, and the moneymen came down hard on Polley to try and mold her into one of their Standardized Disney Starlets (tm). Whereupon Polley told them to fuck right on off, weaseled her way out of her contract, and made a beeline for independent film.

I’m pretty sure Ms. Polley will cut you up good if you mention that show in her presence.

Trump on Christianity:

Sir Kenneth Branagh looked like he was having the time of his life in that film.

HAIL ZEON!

Not to mention half of Black Ops II.

Another thing one of my Lit profs mentioned was that about 20 years after the writing of The Taming of the Shrew, John Fletcher (Shakespeare’s collaborator) wrote a The Woman’s Prize; or, The Tamer Tamed, a genderflipped sequel of the play, in which Petruchio’s second wife (after Kate’s death) basically pulls a…

That was Henry V.

Although Toyota don’t do too well in a snowy climate. Road salt and that thin paintjob is not the best combination.

Wikipedia literally cite Ellen Pao as an example in their article for the Glass Cliff.

Speaking as a Christian.

Funnily enough, the current Reddit Consensus (tm) about Pao is that she was basically the fall-guy (gal?) CEO. They bring her in, she makes a whole bunch of changes, user shit-storm happens, they fire her, bring back the old CEO, users rejoice, and in their giddy joy, they conveniently fail to notice that the new…

The skin is an organ, it is composed of cells which carries self-identifying markers and DNA that are different from those of the host—thus the immune system considers it as a foreign threat that needs to be destroyed.

I don’t think midwives are permitted to prescribe and administer medication. But I know that in Canada, accredited midwives are required to have emergency meds (i.e. for bleeding, oxygen, and such) on hand.

At this point, the most cost-effective and ethical cancer donation thing you can do is probably go to your local research university and buying the grad students a nice a sandwich platter.

A propos of nothing, here’s some nice music from O Brother, Where Art Thou?