She is luscious, old-Hollywood style. That can be tough to style on a young person because we are so accustomed to seeing those looks on older women. She’ll grow into it and will be magnificent.

Whoa, this is important. Are there any major new outlets doing this story?

College kids have more energy than money. Is there a local or regional donation center they can staff? If you are in a fracking state there are probably similar efforts trying to keep frackers from poisoning wells.

This. Every single day, a different shill non-answering even the softest of softball questions. So disappointing, and yet NPR is still the best broadcast news that I know of. I hope in 2017 they ban all “political strategists” from their news programs.

I as reading Naked Capitalism’s analysis of Uber this evening and I kept thinking “but but but cabs are terrible.” While I have not taken as many Uber/Lyfts yet, so far the experience is far superior, on par with the livery vehicle service I sought out when I had one too many hair raising adventures in taxis.

Not then, but The Eyes Of My Mother would like to have a word today. Has anyone seen it? It seems like artsy torture porn, so it’s not on my will watch list. Worth it y/n?

Where would she be today without his firm guiding hand? /s

I saw Monster, the movie about the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, on Valentines Day with some friends. Completely packed theater. All of the couples around us landed there because every other movie was sold out. I can’t even imagine — like, go get ice cream or something instead. Soooo many walkouts that night.

This was my thought, too: Would they have done the same thing if Brando was assaulting a 19 year old guy?

Most people carry with them glowing information boxes that should be making us the most well-informed humans ever. Instead we are petty, distracted and dangerous to ourselves and others. We have the technical and neurobiological answers to creating a proper information ecosystem, but we don’t have a money answer. I…

Trump hasn’t specifically said that he would kill or change social security. He has stated that he would not touch it, kind of. Instead, he has said that the way to save SS is to burble burble his tax patter b/c lowering taxes increases revenue and that stabilizes social security (it is magical thinking). Paul Ryan…

Also the Legend was Tom Cruise IIRC.

That is some excellent Santa face being served up by Santa Larry. My shriveled heart is having a feeling.

Second this. Check out the cotton fisherman’s sweater.

Agreed regarding the placebo effect and visualization as a tool to increase performance. The problem is that when we don’t balance it with, say, chemotherapy: a useful tool becomes a conduit for quackery.

This. Also the legitimization of faith-based facts, like humans lived with dinosaurs, evolution is false, etc. The problem is not just a religion thing; secular implementations include “visualizing” this and that, like visualizing your cancer away, your team winning the big game, or visualizing your way to…

My dad was similar: educated and curious, trained in physics. Also a climate change denier who loved G Gordon Liddy and Oliver North. He always had to be the guy who had the special insight. If it was commonly believed, then it was wrong. For instance, he would never look at Consumer Reports to help decide what car…

And providing interesting and satisfying work for older actors and actresses who we don’t get to see as much as we should!

That is a terrible scene to advertise with. I am disappoint.

$12bn during the Obama year, according to Bloomberg. Huh.