There’s a really interesting (and also depressing, particularly now) episode of More Perfect that addresses the growth of the NRA. “The Gun Show” https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/gun-show

Part of that is due to the culture of surgical specialties. To be successful you need to live and breathe it. My husband (non-surgical resident physician) finds that a lot surgeons he works with just don’t understand how another physician may not be “in” to surgery. It is still very much ruled by a prevailing idea…

I hadn’t thought of this angle... but you are totally right. There are just so many shit-layers to this ad.

Yes.

Ha! Yeah, ‘friends’ still works there.

In light of the 18-year old girlfriend, I wonder if most of his fans nowadays are still in that age range. Like most reasonable people will grow out of Dane Cook? I have a colleague who used to love Dane Cook back in the early-ish aughts when he was in his early 20s and now can’t stand his humour.

He was/is (I stopped watching after season 2) soooo good in House of Cards. He’s good in everything, but I really loved him as Remy.

Yes, I will allow this in part because I love Quo Vadis

David Mitchell is amazing for many reasons, but Poirot is not one of them!

Suchet was, is and forever will be the only Poirot that matters.

I’ve been having a hard time getting into it... but maybe I just can’t get past Anna Paquin. I had this issue with True Blood too... Alas, she and I just don’t jive. I’ll keep trying though! I want to love it.

Well shit, I feel even older now... high school...

I have friends who got married at the summer camp where they met (as counselors). It was very chill and laid back. Canoeing, drinks and guests stayed at the camp.

I had this open and meant to reply almost this exactly. Rural healthcare is complicated regardless of the system through which it is provided. The rural retention and cost-to-operate issue is a cross-Canada and cross-Everywhere-that-has-rural-anything problem. Which doesn’t mean it isn’t exacerbated by poor policies…

I feel like there’s something wrong with me because my first thought while reading was “only 2 acres?”

The authors of the study were interviewed (along with John Urshel) in a recent episode of Freakonomics. They talk at length about the limitations of their study - it’s all over their actual paper. Certainly weren’t trying to hide it. It’s a really interesting episode if anyone is interested: “How Much Brain Damage Do…

It was just so nice to be with people who also knew nothing about makeup but wanted to know about makeup and weren’t judgy. Millihelen commentariat FTW.

Millihelen was the only site on which I was ungreyed... I miss Millihelen

Close in that they were both half animal, but a Siren should be half-bird. But popularly they’ve morphed into half-fish because of their association with the sea. IIRC - am far far out of my undergraduate classics degree...