For 32 years the Butterball Hotline has coaxed panic-stricken Thanksgiving chefs off the ledge. Offering advice as well as tips and tricks, Butterball's Thanksgiving hotline is staffed by about 60 people. But up until this year, they have all been women.
When last we left off, things didn’t look so good for Elizabeth and Edward. Even though there was now a male heir to the throne, Edward’s army was on the run and old, crazy King Henry was back on the throne.
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Q. Do the Mariners have a track record of scapegoating?
A. All big organizations "assign responsibility" for train wrecks. I'd say the Mariners are classier about it, more restrained about it, than most of the org's I ever worked for.
Like we say, multinational corporations look a lot different from the outside than the inside. It's a bit, um, naive to notice a little set of firings by these execs and have an "Aha!," moment, announce that we are seeing something sinister.
That said, this USSM article raises interesting exhibits. If anybody cares, I'll give my cornball boots-on-the-ground interpretation of what was probably happening in each situation.
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Q. Should Carmine Fusco have been fired over Josh Leuke, or who is to blame?
A. Who is to blame, is the media lynch mob in America.
When you have white-male-on-any-female potential crime (Leuke) or white-male-on-minority free speech transgression (John Rocker) you are going to get a lynching. All sense of proportion, and therefore any chance of justice, is out the window. The media wants the man made an example of.
Any F-500 company is going to have to comply with the media's demands, and that's what any F-500 company does. The sinister element here is present, but it's not with the company.
First and foremost, the brains (?) behind this film is a man named Tommy Wiseau. After watching The Room, you may be tempted to, if you see him in the street some day, either club him to death or shake his hand furiously. The Room is, quite simply, one of the absolute worst films ever made and is in fact so bad as to bring tears of laughter to your eyes.
I never really put much thought into male circumcision until this past year. I’ve always been an advocate against female genital mutilation, which is really easy to denounce because of the constant pain, suffering and violence it causes. But when you actually take a look at male circumcision, you’ll see that it, too, is a form of mutilation, and causes unnecessary pain, trauma and even death to baby boys.
Last time on The White Queen, things weren’t looking so good for Edward and Elizabeth. The King was captured and had no male heir, Warwick making a play to put Edward’s brother George on the throne. His Queen was losing family members and forced to hole up until things worked themselves out. And crazy old Margaret Beaufort was still thinking she could weasel her own son onto the throne.
Teacher Tom says it’s time to ban spanking. And he’s right.
Here are a bunch of books to read before you see them at the movies.
Check out this scary grandmother doll. I love it!
There are plenty of badly made movies out there, most of them unintentionally so. But this last movie I saw, the questionably titled Birdemic: Shock and Terror, was so bad that I can only think that creator James Nguyen was doing it on purpose. Seriously, this movie was painful to watch and even those that love horrifyingly bad films may have trouble getting through this one.
Rehtaeh Parsons was a 17 year-old Halifax girl who was raped, then bullied by her classmates after the pictures were made public. Some of her classmates called her a "slut," others blamed her for the attack, and basically everyone either looked the other way or made Parsons' life measurably worse. The school system failed her, the police ignored her report, and eventually she committed suicide by hanging herself in the family bathroom last April.
Lots of people are complaining that we are “still” talking about Trayvon Martin, as if the death of a teenager isn’t worth speaking about. My privileged white male friends are going on about how if he were white we wouldn’t be hearing about him; that’s probably true, because if he were white, I think his shooter would be in jail right now—and he would have been taken into custody immediately following the shooting.
