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Shirley Temple’s Blue Diamond Ring Goes Up for Auction
by Tammy on March 28, 2016Wow, it’s amazing! Via LA Times. Sotheby’s is pulling some nostalgic heartstrings as the auction house markets the sale of a blue diamond ring that belonged to the late Shirley Temple Black. The child star received the 9.54-carat fancy deep blue diamond ring as a gift from her father, according to the auction house, sometime around her 12th birthday. That fell a few weeks before the release of her 1940 film “The Blue Bird.” Sotheby’s is calling the ring the star of its April 19 “Magnificent Jewels” auction. When Temple was 22 she discovered the fortune she had made in the movies — $3.2 million, which is the equivalent of about $31 million today — had dwindled to just $28,000....
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The Dos Equis ‘Most Interesting Man In The World’ Sent To Space, Er, Retires
by Shifra on March 10, 2016If Obama gets wind of this, he will probably be first in line to audition for their replacement. Via NY Post: “The Most Interesting Man In The World” is no longer of this world. Dos Equis has dispatched him on a one-way “Mission to Mars” — as evidenced by a 60-second commercial launched Wednesday on the company’s YouTube channel…. Hord confirmed Dos Equis will have a new “Most Interesting Man” on the air by this fall. But he called searching for a replacement “a lot of pressure.” Jonathan Goldsmith, the campaign’s star, who’s now on the back nine of his 70s, has often said he stayed in character by channeling his late friend Fernando Lamas. That explains what The New...
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NYC Mayor de Blasio Signs Executive Order… For Gender-Neutral Bathrooms
by Shifra on March 8, 2016Now, in all public NYC buildings, any man who looks like a man, dresses like a man, and *is* a man, but “self-identifies” (whatever that means) as a woman can now walk into any women’s bathroom or locker room. What could go wrong? Probably a lot. Via WSJ: Mayor Bill de Blasio signed an executive order Monday requiring city agencies to allow people to use public restrooms based on their self-declared gender identity as a man, woman or neither. The measure is intended to add enforcement powers to a 2002 amendment to the city’s Human Rights Law that added gender identity as a protected class. It extends protections to New York City’s estimated 25,000 transgender people as well as those...
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Museum of Broken Relationships To Open in L.A.
by Shifra on March 7, 2016‘Cause breakin’ up is hard to do… Via NPR: Ever wondered what to do with that special memento from a past relationship, that token that’s just too challenging to toss, not feasible to return, but yet too painful to hold on to? …Well, now you can donate those trinkets of love to a museum, The Museum of Broken Relationships, to be precise. The new museum is set to open in Los Angeles in May and they’re currently in the process of building their collection. Alexis Hyde is the museum’s director and she says they’re accepting submissions from persons overcoming any type of broken relationship. “We’re talking about all relationships,” Hyde tells NPR’s Lourdes Garcia-Navarro. “It is lovers and it is...
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‘Downton Abbey’ Boss Previews an ‘Optimistic’ Series Finale Set For Sunday
by Tammy on March 4, 2016I came to Downtown Abbey late, binge-watched several several seasons and finally caught up a couple years ago. It’s sad it’s going away but I hope they have a spin off or two 🙂 The season finale is Sunday. Yeah, I’ll be sad, but happy knowing people can still make great television. If you haven’t seen it yet, or have dismissed it, do give it a chance, I know you’ll like it 🙂 With all the craziness we deal with in politics and culture, it’s a good thing to have something with which to take a break. For me, this show was one of those thing. Via Entertainment Weekly. (Spoiler-free) Believe it or not, Sunday will mark the last time...
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Islamo-funny: Fox Making Muslim Sitcom To Counteract Islamophobia
by Pat_S on February 19, 2016Obama suggested it . Fox is working on it . What better way to propagandize Americans than through an innocent TV sitcom? There’s no hiding the intent. It is to open the hearts and minds of all you Islamophobes. I was imagining something like The Adventures of Aziz and Hooriyah or Everybody Loves Mohammed, but according to Deadline Hollywood the show will be about a 14-year old boy with adult responsibilities as the man of the house. Bet you’re already conjuring up some sordid images about male/female relationships in the Muslim world because of all that cable news you watch. Too bad there’s already a show called “The Americans”. It’s on FX and it’s about embedded Soviet agents who look,...
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New Dating Website For Single Socialist Sanders Supporters
by Shifra on February 18, 2016If you’re Feeling the Bern *and* Looking for Love, check out BernieSingles.com Or better yet, seek therapy… Via The Hill: Bernie Sanders supporters are launching their very own dating site…. This comes after Tinder briefly banned two Sanders supporters from the popular dating app earlier this month because they were accused of harassing dozens of other members with pro-Sanders messages. Now there is a dating site exclusively for Sanders supporters. BernieSingles.com crashed Wednesday after administrators said it “went viral” and reached 1,000 members “in less than an hour,” but they are working to restore it…. The site urges members to be respectful of each other and live by the motto “what would Bernie do?”…
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New Monopoly Ultimate Banking Eliminates Cash For Tiny ATM Cards
by Shifra on February 17, 2016First, they axed the iron. Now, the new game goes cashless. Can we still yell “RENT!” when someone lands on a property? Or, will the new rules require texting the other player? Via Gizmodo: Is there anything worse in a game of Monopoly than thinking you’ve bankrupted another player only to discover they have a secret stash of cash hidden away? That’s no longer an option with the new Monopoly Ultimate Banking edition that uses a tiny ATM to keep track of every last financial transaction. …the compact banking unit in the Monopoly Ultimate Banking edition is able to quickly scan not only each player’s credit card, but all of the individual property and chance cards in the game which...
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New University of Kentucky Course: Taco Literacy
by Shifra on February 3, 2016There really should be more diversity in their course offerings: How about a course on The History of Matzoh Ball Soup? Via National Review: The University of Kentucky is offering a course titled “Taco Literacy: Public Advocacy and Mexican Food in the U.S. South ” where students will examine the social and racial issues surrounding tacos. Or, as the course’s website puts it, “how food literacies situate different spaces, identities, and forms of knowledge.” “This class allows our students to explore the issues of immigration, inequality, workers, intercultural communication, and literacy through the prism of food,” the course’s professor, Steven Alvarez, told Vice. This existence of such a course isn’t surprising; tacos are a very controversial subject these days —...
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Lake Superior State University’s 2016 List Of ‘Banished’ Words
by Shifra on January 3, 2016“So,” will TAMS find that the “secret sauce” of this post “gives them life” and will want to “join the conversation,” or will they find it “problematic,” so that I will just have to “walk it back?” Via WSJ: So (and we will get back to that word in a minute), 2015 became the year in which U.S. university campuses went mad with political correctness. Students accused professors of “microagressions,” slights so subtle only the victims could identify, or feel, them. At Christmas, Cornell issued a list of discouraged “holiday” objects, which somehow included mistletoe. Thus, we are pleased to associate ourselves with one university’s list of forbidden things. It is Lake Superior State University’s 41st annual list of “Banished...
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Move Over, Hello Kitty: Presenting Gudetama, The Egg Yolk!
by Shifra on January 3, 2016If this catches on in the U.S., CAIR will probably throw a temper tantrum, since Gudetama is often portrayed resting with a “bacon blanket.” Via WSJ: Hello Kitty has long inspired the world with her uplifting cartoon cuteness. But when life is hard, inspiration can come from someone who just goes home and snuggles under a blanket of bacon. So Kitty’s creator, Sanrio Co., now offers a downbeat role model in Gudetama, an egg yolk that doesn’t see life sunnyside-up. “Can I go home now?” the yolk mutters and lies around moaning, “I don’t feel like doing anything.” The defeatist cartoon character has been a surprise hit. Gudetama is a dark departure for Sanrio, whose Hello Kitty for more than...
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Elite NYC Private School Teaches Swastika Is Symbol of ‘Peace’
by Shifra on December 1, 2015The Ethical Culture Fieldston School is an elite private school in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. What? You thought all of the Bronx looked like the movie ‘Ft. Apache, the Bronx’ ? Riverdale is a tony section of the Bronx, and no self-respecting person living there will ever respond “the Bronx” when asked where they live. It’s always: Riverdale Tuition at the Fieldston School is $45,000 a year. And looks like these parents are really getting their money’s worth for their little darlings. Not. Via NY Post: …As The Post reported, swastikas have been popping up all over campus this fall and a notebook was found with the words “Hitler Rocks” on the front. At least one student at...
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Art Exhibit With Mice as ISIS Threatening Other Cute Animal Figurines Removed
by Pat_S on September 26, 2015I’ve never heard of them but Sylvanian Families are plastic toys popular in Japan and other countries. They were somewhat popular in the U.S. back in the 80’s. They’ve been reintroduced here, known as Calico Critters. From the Sylvanian Families website: Since 1985, Sylvanian Families has been loved by many people around the world. It is a nostalgic toy range that attracts people in different age groups. Based on three concepts, Nature, Family and Love, children can explore the power of imagination and learn to care and share with one another. Sylvanian Families are there to help children acquire key social skills. All of the families live in Sylvanian Village, where everyone enjoys the world of nature. Set around enjoying...
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Holy Anti-Cop Batman! Latest Batman Comic Based On Police Racism
by Pat_S on September 16, 2015The Caped Crusader comes to realize as a rich man he is somewhat to blame for institutional racism and racist cops. The narrative alludes to the deaths of Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin and problems supposedly caused by gentrification. Batman confronts police racism in latest comic book. The latest issue of DC Comics’ flagship Batman series throws itself headfirst into the agonizing conversations roiling America more than a year after Ferguson officer Darren Wilson killed 18-year old Michael Brown. The globally iconic superhero confronts racialized police brutality and its intersection with urban poverty and gentrification – problems Batman comes to realize he exacerbates in his secret identity as billionaire industrialist Bruce Wayne. I’m not a Batman fan so I really...
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Texas Professor To Students: Please Refrain From Saying ‘God Bless You’ In Class
by Shifra on September 13, 2015Maybe it would have been a better idea to ask students: Please refrain from sneezing in class. Via News Channel 9 abc: HARLINGEN, Texas (KGBT) — A college syllabus went viral online, outraging some University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) students because of the words “Please refrain from saying, ‘God bless you.'” From freshman to senior year, college students are handed syllabuses detailing expectations for courses. “Please refrain from saying, ‘God bless you’ during the classes and exams,” the syllabus states. Pictures of the college course’s syllabus hit social media soon after the first day of class…. KGBT reached out to UTRGV officials who declined an on-camera interview, but did release the following statement: “The professor’s syllabus sought to...
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