"5 Reasons Why Marriage Doesn't Work Anymore"...........MY ASS!!!!! - Recently, there has been an article that has made its way around Facebook, and I am sure you all have seen it. It’s an article by a gentleman named Anthony D’Ambrosio, a columnist for the Ashbury Park ((NJ) Press. The article is titled: “5 Reasons Why Marriage Doesn’t Work Anymore”. And it’s absolute bullshit. Anthony, for the record, is divorced. Well done, Anthony. After reading this article that no less than 15 of my Facebook friends shared on their pages (usually accompanied by an “Amen” and “This article is so perfect, like OMG”) – I have had enough. His first point: Sex becomes almost non-existent. My counter-point: Women love sex, and intimacy, and that feeling of closeness…especially to our husbands. Wrong. His second point: Finances cripple us. My counter-point: Shut up, you whiny piece of crap. Okay, so you can’t afford to go out to eat? My counter-point: 1) Dinner reservations on an app? His fourth point: Our desire for attention outweighs our desire to be loved. Like this:
We Give Up. Let's Just Say Coffee Cures Everything ShareTweetShareSendLink The big news last week was that coffee now prevents skin cancer. “The more coffee consumed, the lower the risk,” The New York Times wrote. I’ve yet to find a cancer that coffee won’t cure. My suggestion would have been diabetes or Alzheimer’s research—if coffee hadn’t already cured them, too. I love coffee. The most recent paper on the dubious connection between coffee and skin cancer is rife with the same fatal flaws that pop up in the 2,000 other coffee wellness studies online. Is it possible that coffee reduces the rate of melanoma? Don’t take it from me (or Dr. I don’t blame the researchers. Physicians understand that. Study: Most People Think Scientists Are Full Of ItSunlight May Cause Skin Cancer Even Hours After You’ve Left The BeachCan Camel Urine Cure Cancer?
Six easy ways to tell if that viral story is a hoax “And so it begins … ISIS flag among refugees in Germany fighting the police,” blared the headline on the Conservative Post; “with this new leaked picture, everything seems confirmed”. The image in question purported to show a group of Syrian refugees holding ISIS flags and attacking German police officers. For those resistant to accepting refugees into Europe, this story was a godsend. The problem is, the photo is three years old, and has precious little to do with the refugee crisis. But news in the digital age spreads faster than ever, and so do lies and hoaxes. But ordinary people are also starting to take a more sophisticated approach to the content they view online. Reverse image search Not only is a reverse image search one of the simplest verification tools, it’s also the one that showed the “leaked” ISIS refugee photo was a fake. When a link to the story was posted to Reddit, sceptical users swiftly took to Google to query it. YouTube DataViewer Jeffrey’s Exif Viewer FotoForensics
Dan and Me: My Coming Out as a Friend of Dan Cathy and Chick-fil-A | Shane L. Windmeyer I spent New Year's Eve at the red-blooded, all-American epicenter of college football: at the Chick-fil-A Bowl, next to Dan Cathy, as his personal guest. It was among the most unexpected moments of my life. Yes, after months of personal phone calls, text messages and in-person meetings, I am coming out in a new way, as a friend of Chick-fil-A's president and COO, Dan Cathy, and I am nervous about it. I have come to know him and Chick-fil-A in ways that I would not have thought possible when I first started hearing from LGBT students about their concerns over the chicken chain's giving practices. For many this news of friendship might be shocking. Why was I now standing next to him at one of the most popular football showdowns? Like most LGBT people, I was provoked by Dan's public opposition to marriage equality and his company's problematic giving history. On Aug. 10, 2012, in the heat of the controversy, I got a surprise call from Dan Cathy.
What moviegoers in Baghdad think of “American Sniper” When Gaith Mohammed, a young man in his twenties with a degree in accounting, went to see “American Sniper” during its opening week at Baghdad’s Mansour Mall, he says the theater was full and rowdy. “Some people watching were just concentrating, but others were screaming ‘F*ck, shoot him! He has an IED, don’t wait for permission!!’” Mohammed laughed, recounting the film’s many tense scenes when US Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, played by Bradley Cooper, radios in for authorization to take out a potential threat in his crosshairs. The film, set during the US-led occupation of Iraq and released on Christmas Day, hit nerves in the United States immediately. Some critics and commentators lauded it as patriotic and unflinching; others dismissed it as reductionist and racist. Many people also objected to the film’s portrayal of Kyle — a man who described Iraqis as “savages” in his memoir — as a hero. It’s been stirring controversy in Iraq, too.
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot | julian peters comics julian peters comics A selection of my comics, poetry comics, and other illustration work – All images © Julian Peters – info@jpeterscomics.com Skip to content The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. My complete 24-page comic-book adaptation of the poem “The Love Song of J. To those who have asked me where they can find this in print: The comic only exists online for the time being, but I am currently in the process of looking for a publisher for it. Share this: Like this: 498 Responses to The Love Song of J. Amanda Palmer – The Art of Asking | Digital Humanities Blog It seems like some of the rhetoric that is employed in promoting digital humanities projects stems from insecurity. Digital Humanists feel that they have to justify their work as “real scholarship,” so they respond by insisting that they’re changing the nature of scholarship as we know it. Perhaps they’re right, but I’m more interested in this feeling that the work needs to be justified to some looming, suit-wearing authority figure. Amanda Palmer brings up this feeling repeatedly in her TED talk, “The Art of Asking.” Much of Palmer’s presentation is anecdotal. During her time as a street artist, Palmer spent her nights playing in a band called the Dresden Dolls. Eventually, The Dresden Dolls became successful enough so that Palmer didn’t have to work as a street artist anymore. Palmer’s next record would feature a different band and adopt a different production and distribution philosophy. Rewards for our passionate labors in the humanities are not always very tangible.
Amanda Palmer’s TED Talk: What We Learned Last week, Amanda Palmer was one of the speakers at the TED2013 conference, and she delivered an affecting 13-and-a-half-minute speech titled “The Art Of Asking,” in which she detailed her rise from a “living statue” mime working the streets of Boston to an internationally known musician whose current revenue model relies primarily on the direct support of fans. Palmer drew strong correlations between the two professions, noting that each depends on interpersonal connection. As a mime, says Palmer, she would regularly interact with “lonely people who looked like they hadn’t talked to anyone in weeks,” and then, “we would sort of fall in love a little bit.” For Palmer, the wordless exchange went something like this: My eyes would say, “Thank you. I see you.”Their eyes would say, “Nobody ever sees me. “Your music has helped my daughter so much. Palmer addresses this, too, in her TED Talk — to some extent, anyway. For Palmer, the music industry’s attempts to make money are wrongheaded.
12 Incredible Short Films You Can Watch In Less Time Than a Michael Bay Flick As this summer taught us, Hollywood blockbusters have gotten painfully repetitive. Though some are excellent (Guardians of the Galaxy), attempts to raise the tentpole ever higher have stifled creativity and smothered spontaneity. No wonder all the buzz lately about the 8-minute fan flick, Spawn: The Recall. The short film community doesn’t have Weinsteins to appease, enormous production costs to recoup or wide audiences to dumb things down for. Short films like this stay original and true to themselves. 1. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.