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Average Ages Of Mass Shooter’s Victims

It's a long list, so I added a page break.

7.0 - Patrick Purdy

7.4 - Thomas Hamilton

9.0 - Charles Roberts IV

13.4 - Salvador Ramos

13.8 - Wellington de Oliviera

14.3 - Jaylen Fryberg

14.5 - Li Zhongren

15.4 - Adam Lanza

16.0 - Ethan Crumbley

16.3 - Victor Hoffman

16.6 - Dylan Klebold

16.8 - Kosta Kecmanovic

17.0 - Robert Smith

17.8 - Tyler Peterson

18.0 - Michael Clark

19.6 - Nikolas Cruz

19.9 - Eric Harris

20.0 - Elliot Rodger

20.1 - Larry Ashbrook

21.0 - Matthew Murray

21.6 - Mauricio Garcua

23.0 - Steven Kacmierzak

23.3 - Travis Reinking

23.6 - Tim Kretschmer

23.7 - Marc Lepine

24.1 - Matti Saari

25.3 - Dimitrios Pagourtzis

25.3 - James Huberty

25.7 - Vladislav Roslyakov

25.8 - Chase Garvey

26.2 - James Holmes

26.5 - Gonzalo Lopez

26.8 - Pekka-Eric Auvinen

26.8 - Seung-Hui Cho

27.0 - Noah Esbensen

27.7 - Timur Bekmansurov

28.2 - Jeff Weise

28.3 - Michael Silka

28.5 - Ruslan Akhtyamov

28.8 - Wesley Higdon

29.3 - Sterling Hunt

29.4 - Omar Mateen

29.8 - Muhammad Abdulazeez

30.0 - Charles Whitman

30.0 - Colt Gray

30.8 - Kimbrady Carriker

31.7 - Phasid Trutassanawin

32.0 - Todd Kohlhepp

32.6 - Anderson Aldrich

32.8 - Chris Harper-Mercer

33.1 - One Goh

33.2 - Connor Betts

33.2 - Howard Unruh

33.3 - Ryan Palmeter

33.7 - Solejman Talovic

33.8 - Thomas McIlvane

34.8 - Audrey Hale

35.0 - Cedrid Ford

35.3 - Snochia Moseley

35.7 - Richard Farley

35.7 - Richard Poplawski

35.8 - Chai Vang

36.0 - Robert Dear Jr.

36.3 - Mark Essex

36.4 - Nidel Hasan

37.0 - Noah Harpham

37.3 - Radcliffe Haughton

37.9 - James Pough

38.0 - Ivan Lopez

38.2 - Gary Martin

38.4 - Mark Baton

38.7 - Patrick Sherill

38.8 - Leo Held

39.3 - Joaquin Roman

39.5 - Maurice Clemmons

39.6 - Stephan Paddock

39.7 - John Parish

39.7 - Michael McLendon

40.1 - Gian Ferri

40.2 - Andre Bing

40.4 - Edward Allaway

40.7 - Albert Wong

41.0 - Gavin Long

41.0 - Jonathan Sapirman

42.0 - William Bonner

42.3 - Michael McDermott

42.4 - Lyndon McLeod

42.8 - Eduardo Sencion

43.0 - Zane Floyd

43.2 - Ian Stawicki

43.6 - Micah Johnson

44.3 - George Sodini

44.3 - Terry Ratzmann

44.9 - Jennifer San Marco

45.0 - Randy Stair

45.1 - Samuel Cassidy

45.4 - Brian Uyesegi

45.7 - Jiverly Wong

45.8 - Herman Klink

46.1 - Robert Card

46.3 - Timothy Hendron

46.6 - Ahmad Al Aliwi Al-Issa

47.0 - Brandon Hole

47.3 - Kenneth Tornes

47.5 - William Baker

48.4 - Zephen Xaver

48.7 - Ronald Taylor

48.8 - Anthony Ferrill

49.4 - Robert Hawkins

49.8 - Joseph Wesbecker

50.3 - Carl Brown

50.7 - Jimmy Lam

50.8 - Isaac Zamora

51.0 - Douglas Williams

51.0 - Kevin Neal

51.2 - Andrew Engeldinger

51.3 - Amy Bishop

52.6 - George Hennerd

53.8 - Connor Sturgeon

53.8 - John Neumann Jr.

54.1 - Scott Dekraai

54.4 - Omar Thornton

54.6 - Robert Long

55.0 - Jarrod Ramos

55.2 - Charles Thornton

55.5 - Jared Loughner

55.8 - Aaron Alexis

55.7 - Jason Dalton

55.9 - Wade Page

56.1 - Dylann Roof

57.3 - Anthony Polito

57.6 - Arcan Cetin

58.3 - Chunli Zhao

59.1 – Patrick Crusius

62.0 - Robert Crimo III

62.1 - Payton Gendron

66.9 - Huu Can Tran

73.8 - Robert Bowers

79.3 - Robert Stewart

83.3 - Beau Wilson

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Episode 187 - Favourite Reads of 2023

This episode we’re discussing our Favourite Reads of 2023! We talk about our favourite fiction and non-fiction books we read this year! Plus: Our favourite comics, video games, documentaries, podcasts, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Favourite Fiction

For the podcast

Anna

The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao  (Episode 172 - Domestic Thrillers)

Jam

Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones (Episode 184 - Horror)

Matthew

Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus, vol. 3 by Eiji Otsuka and by Housui Yamazaki (Episode 184 - Horror)

The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 edited by Lisa Unger and Steph Cha (Episode 186 - Suspense Fiction)

Meghan

The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw (Episode 176 - Fantasy)

Not for the podcast

Jam

Heaven’s Design Team by Hebi-Zou, Tsuta Suzuki, & Tarako

Naked mole rats do not die of old age

Owls’ ears are at asymmetrical heights

Tarsiers have two tongues

Accidental Elephant (YouTube)

Matthew

Ammonite by Nicola Griffith 

Lambda Literary Award for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror (Wikipedia)

Meghan

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

Anna

Daisy and the Duke by Elizabeth Cole (The Wallflowers of Wildwood)

Favourite Non-Fiction

For the podcast

Matthew

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara (Episode 174 - Economics)

Meghan

Goldenrod: Poems by Maggie Smith (Episode 182 - Lyric Poetry)

Anna

They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers by Sarah Scoles (Episode 178 - Aliens, Extraterrestrials, and UFOs)

Jam

Histories of the Transgender Child by Jules Gill-Peterson (Episode 170 - Gender Theory & Gender Studies)

Not for the podcast

Meghan 

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser

Anna

Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic – and what we can do about it by Jennifer Breheny Wallace

Jam

The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption by Shannon Gibney (also discussed in Episode 181)

Matthew

Thirty-One Nil: On the Road With Football's Outsiders: A World Cup Odyssey by James Montague

Other Favourite Things of 2023

Anna

If Books Could Kill

The Meme Stock Cult (patron episode) & two parter on Nudge

Folding Ideas - This is Financial Advice (YouTube)

Two Point Hospital / Campus

Oxygen Not Included

Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art

Jam

Nimona (film)

Shuna’s Journey by Hayao Miyazaki

Matthew

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

Nier: Automata (Wikipedia)

Meghan

Ten Candles

Le Plonguer - Stéphane Larue

Runner-Ups

Jam

Games 

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Wikipedia)

Baldur’s Gate 3 (Wikipedia)

Redactle

Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore (Episode 176 - Fantasy)

Boy Island by Leo Fox (comic released via 133 installments on Instagram; link is installment #1)

Changing my name (legal procedure)

Best Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe (cookies)

Moon (celestial body)

Matthew

Comics

Box of Light, vol. 1 by Seiko Erisawa

Cryptid Club by Sarah Andersen

The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún Deluxe Edition, vol. 1 by Nagabe

Incredible Doom, vol. 1 by Matthew Bogart and Jesse Holden

Mimosa by Archie Bongiovanni

Steeple, vols. 1-3 by John Allison, Sarah Stern, and Jim Campbell

Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru

Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen: Who Killed Jimmy Olsen? by Matt Fraction and Steve Leiber

 Books

Boss Fight: Jagged Alliance 2 by Darius Kazemi

Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams by Alfred Lubrano

Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada's Chinese Restaurants by Ann Hui

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Dr. Kit Heyam

The Caped Crusader: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon

The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

Games

Hitman: World of Assassination Trilogy

Yakuza 0 (Wikipedia)

Tetris Effect

Bayonetta (Wikipedia)

Video Essays

The Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse - Folding Ideas

Panzer Dragoon Series Retrospective - A Complete History and Review - I Finished A Video Game

 Meghan

Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol by Holly Whitaker

Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci

Onley's Arctic: Diaries and Paintings of the High Arctic by Toni Onley

Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst: The Creation of a Garden by VitaSackville-West and Sarah Raven

Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga by Benjamin Lorr

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold and Charles W. Schwartz

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism by Daphné B.

Witch King by Martha Wells

Bad Fruit by Ella King

Other Media We Mentioned

Thirsty Mermaids by Kat Leyh

Theme Hospital (Wikipedia)

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Join us again on Tuesday, January 2nd when it’s time for trains, planes, and automobiles (and bicycles) as we discuss non-fiction books about Transit and Transportation!

Then on Tuesday, February 6th just in time for Valentine's day we’ll be discussing the genre of Humourous/Funny Romance.

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Hi, hope you are okay! Can you suggest me some alternative fc's to John McCrea? Thank you so much! Have a great day.

Paul Bettany (1971)

Toby Hemingway (1983)

Ryan O'Connell (1986) - has cerebral palsy and is gay - especially if you're looking for an alt with similar glasses to what John wears too!

Hunter Parrish (1987)

Cody Fern (1988) - despite people speculating he's not openly labelled his sexuality.

Freddie Fox (1989) English, Channel Islander [Jersey], one sixteenth Jewish [Ashkenazi and Sephardi], distant Scottish and Irish - has stated he could fall in love with a man but hasn't labelled his sexuality.

Shaun Ross (1991) African-American - has albinism and is gay.

Toby Regbo (1991)

Austin Butler (1991)

Jordan Waller (1992) English - is gay.

Denis Dang (1993) Vietnamese.

Hart Denton (1993)

Layton Williams (1994) Afro-Jamaican, Montserratian / British - is gay.

Jelle Florizoone (1995) Belgian - is gay.

Wen Jun Hui (1996) Chinese.

Go Tae Seob (1996) Korean - is gay.

Luke Eisner (1996)

Cooper van Grootel (2001)

Casil McArthur (?) - is trans.

Here you go!

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#421 || Trần Nguyễn Trâm Anh / Contemporary & Lê Hữu Phước / Breaking Contemporary | Choreography by John Huy Trần | «Ánh Sáng Của Mẹ» by Nguyễn Văn Chung | SYTYCD Vietnam Season 4 (2015) | Top 6 Week | Top 500 List | Intra-Seasonal Placement: #4 | VN4

Let's just ignore those awkward eight seconds of darkness on the stage right at the beginning. Some lighting technician majorly screwed up at that point, almost ruining the effect of those various spotlight acting as short glimpses in the mother-child relationahip portrayed here. But then we see Huu Phoc acting like the big baby he's supposed to play and that's simply too adorable for me to focus on anything else. the dance is just so touching! That trust fall and the spinning lift are just so beautiful even if simple. I also suspect that this routine is what gave constant bottom dweller Tram Anh the upper hand against super popular Lan Nhi in order to make the top 4 as it showed a completely different side of her.

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Should your mind wander away, do not follow it, whereupon your wandering mind will stop wandering of its own accord. Should your mind desire to linger somewhere, do not follow it and do not dwell there, whereupon your mind’s questing for a dwelling-place will cease of its own accord. Thereby, you will come to possess a non-dwelling mind—a mind which remains in the state of non-dwelling. If you are fully aware in yourself of a non-dwelling mind, you will discover that there is just the fact of dwelling, with nothing to dwell upon or not to dwell upon. This full awareness in yourself of a mind dwelling upon nothing is known as having a clear perception of your own nature. A mind which dwells upon nothing is the Buddha-Mind, the mind of one already delivered, Bodhi-Mind, Uncreate Mind...you will have attained to understanding from within yourself—an understanding stemming from a mind that abides nowhere, by which we mean a mind free from delusion and reality alike.

The Zen Teaching of Hui Hai, trans. John Blofeld

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Quotes on friendship as trust and understanding

Between Chuang Tzu and Hui Shi (translated by Burton Watson):

Chuang Tzu was accompanying a funeral when he passed by the grave of Hui Tzu. Turning to his attendants, he said, “There was once a plasterer who, if he got a speck of mud on the tip of his nose no thicker than a fly's wing, would get his friend Carpenter Shih to slice it off for him. 

“Carpenter Shih, whirling his hatchet with a noise like the wind, would accept the assignment and proceed to slice, removing every bit of mud without injury to the nose, while the plasterer just stood there completely unperturbed. Lord Yuan of Sung, hearing of this feat, summoned Carpenter Shih and said, ‘Could you try performing it for me?’ But Carpenter Shih replied, ‘It’s true that I was once able to slice like that but the material I worked on has been dead these many years.’ Since you died, Master Hui, I have had no material to work on. There's no one I can talk to any more.”

Between Jackie Chan and his stunt team (Jackie Chan, ed. John R. Little and Curtis F. Wong, Contemporary Books, 1999, pp. 130-132):

My stuntmen fight with me because if you were to fight with me–no matter how good you are–we’re unfamiliar with each other. So, when you kick or punch toward me, I’ll be pulling away too soon, or maybe I’ll be worrying about getting hit and, believe me, I’ve been hit too much already. I’ve been hurt so many times from people who were not my stuntmen; my nose has been broken three times because I trust people; my tooth is gone because the person I was fighting with did not have proper control of his technique, at least not as well as he needed it to be. 

I’m not saying that I still don’t make mistakes. My own stuntmen have hurt me, too, but that’s okay–I trust them–and that’s an accident. If you hurt me or fight with me, then I’m scared [that an accident could happen]. But with my stuntmen, the chances of my getting injured are greatly reduced. We can go full out–[throws punches and kicks] bam! bam! bam! bam! bam!–we know each other’s rhythm and timing! 

If today, you find in America a very talented Caucasian stuntman, like you or, like anyone, to fight with me, it will be the worst-looking Jackie Chan fight scene of all time. Why? Because when you go to kick me, I’ll be already flinching and turning away from you. If the scene calls for you to hit me across the back with a stick, I’m already covering up and trying to get away from you because I’m really scared that you are going to hit me. 

But my stuntmen can hit me right across the back with a club–boom!–and you can actually see it touch my shirt, and I’ll stay there and take it because I know that he’ll pull it just enough to prevent me from getting hurt. That’s what we want in fight choreography. So that is why I always bring my stuntmen with me wherever I go. We have that timing together. 

In Rumble in the Bronx, when they were throwing bottles at me–boom! boom! boom!–I was able to trust them and tell them, “Come on, now, hit me right here on the arm with it,” and they will. But if you throw the bottle, I’d rather be ten miles away because if I stand there, I might move because we’re not used to each other–or you might not throw it where I’m expecting it–and I’ll get hurt. 

So this is quite different from some of the other action stars who might use one set of stuntmen for one film, and then a second set of stuntmen for another film–how can you create realistic looking scenes this way? You must fully trust the people you are working with, and you have to know each other, anticipate each other and know each other’s rhythm and timing. This is essential. 

You could put two good fighters together in a fight scene, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it will be entertaining to watch in a movie. In the movies, it’s different fighting than what you would see, say, in a martial arts tournament or a boxing match. There, it’s bam! bam! bam! And that’s a good fight to watch, too, they’re really fighting and it’s exciting. But in a movie, it’s all rhythm, and that requires a different type of fighting.

Between Bo Ya and Zhongzi Qi (Lieh-tzu, 57, trans. Eva Wong, Shambala, 2001):

Po-ya and Chung Tzu-Ch’i were good friends. Po-ya was a good lute player and his friend was an intuitive listener.

When Po-ya had his mind on the high mountains while he played, Chung Tzu-ch’i said, “I can feel the grandeur of the Great Mountains!”

When Po-ya thought about flowing waters while he played, his friend said, “How deep and wide are the Yellow River and the Yang-tze!”

It seemed no matter what was on Po-ya’s mind which he expressed in his music, his friend shared the feelings right away.

One time the two friends were wandering around in the north slopes of the Great Mountains when a rainstorm hit. They found shelter in a cave, and, waiting for the rains to subside, Po-ya took up his lute and played. Seeing the mist and rain hiding the mountains, Po-ya had a feeling of sadness and composed a piece about the unending rain and rising mist. Then he changed his mood and improvised a song that painted the splendor of an avalanche crashing down the mountains. 

In every piece he played, Chung Tzu-ch’i could grasp Po-ya’s feel of the music without fail. His mood and state of mind were identical to those of the player.

Po-ya put down his lute and sighed, “This is more than my wildest expectations. You can read my mind by listening to my music. From now on, how can I hide anything from you?”

Po-ya and Chung Tzu-ch’i were not only good friends but kindred spirits. They could reach into each other’s minds not just because one of them was a good player and the other an intuitive listener. It was because they had dissolved the barriers that separated them from each other and the music was simply a bridge that allowed them to communicate their hearts and minds.

From Wikipedia:

Bo Ya was good at playing the qin. Zhong Ziqi was good at listening to the qin. When Bo Ya's will was towards high mountains in his playing, Zhong Ziqi would say, ‘How towering like Mount Tai!’ When Bo Ya's will was towards flowing water in his playing, Zhong Ziqi would say, ‘How vast are the rivers and oceans!’ Whatever Bo Ya thought of Ziqi would never fail to understand. Bo Ya said, ‘Amazing! Your heart and mine are the same!’ When Ziqi died, Bo Ya broke the strings [of his qin] and vowed never to play [the qin] again.

Between Guan Zhong and Bao Shuya (Lieh-tzu, 64, trans. Eva Wong, Shambala, 2001):

Kuan-chung did not let his success affect his friendship with Pao Shu-ya. Often he would say, “If not for Pao Shu-ya, I would not be where I am today. When we were children, I always took a larger share of everything we found. He didn’t argue with me and never considered me greedy because he knew I came from a poor family that never had enough of anything. 

“When we made plans together for our little enterprises, Pao Shu-ya accepted my advice, but when things did not turn out, he never blamed me for stupidity, for he knew that success and failure often depend more on luck than effort. As a young man I served in the civil service three times and each time was fired from my job. Pao Shuya did not think I was worthless because he knew the opportunities were just not right for me. 

“Three times I went into battle, and three times I escaped rather than face capture. Pao Shu-ya did not think that I was a coward because he knew I needed to look after my aging mother. In the final battle when the princes fought for the throne, when my fellow advisor chose to die with his lord and I surrendered, Pao Shu-ya did not consider my actions shameful, because he knew that heroics are sometimes folly. Therefore, although my parents gave me life and nourished me, it is Pao Shu-ya who really understands me.”

Two of these are mentioned in the Huainanzi, 19.7 (trans. and ed. John S. Major, Sarah A. Queen, Andrew Seth Meyer, and Harold D. Roth, Columbia University Press, 2010):

When Zhongzi Qi died, Bo Ya broke the strings and destroyed his qin, knowing that in his times no one could appreciate his playing.

When Hui Shi died, Zhuangzi ceased to talk, perceiving that there was no one else with whom he could converse.

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Ce que peut nous apprendre cette période d’abstinence subie du confinement

SEXUALITÉ – Tinder, Grindr, Bumble et autres consoeurs n’y pourront rien. Pour de nombreux Français, confinés seuls chez eux depuis près de deux semaines pour tenter d’enrayer l’épidémie de coronavirus, il faut se faire une raison. Une longue période d’abstinence sexuelle attend certains. 

Le terme, qui ne désigne ni le concept de chasteté ni l’asexualité, suscite souvent beaucoup d’interrogations. Il a récemment fait l’objet du premier essai de la romancière Emmanuelle Richard (Désintégration, La légèreté). Intitulé Les corps abstinents, il est paru au mois de février aux éditions Flammarion.

“Nous évoluons dans une société où le sexe est partout. […] Ne pas ou moins participer revient à être tout de suite perçu comme un perdant de la dictature du jouir, un relégué du capitalisme de la séduction. C’est basculer du côté de la honte et d’une prétendue anomalie”, note l’autrice en préambule. Elle en a fait les frais pendant cinq ans, à la suite d’une rupture amoureuse destructrice qui l’a conduite à une grave dépression. 

Dans son livre, l’écrivaine de 35 ans est partie à la rencontre d’une trentaine de personnes qui, actuellement ou au cours d’une période de leur vie, ont été confrontées à l’absence de sexe partagé. Deux manières d’appréhender l’abstinence se distinguent de ces témoignages. 

Une sexualité bénéfique, moquée à l’écran

La première, c’est quand elle est désirée. C’est le cas d’une certaine Angèle. Étudiante d’une vingtaine d’années, elle raconte à Emmanuelle Richard avoir ressenti le besoin d’un “reboot complet” après une rupture, plusieurs décès dans sa famille et une succession de conquêtes. Son abstinence dure six mois et lui fait l’effet d’un grand bol d’air frais. La situation l’a fait réfléchir. Elle a désormais l’impression d’être “une meilleure version d’elle-même et de se concentrer sur d’autres choses que la séduction”.

Antoine, un garçon “charismatique” selon l’essayiste, est aussi de cet avis. Ses périodes successives d’abstinence sont, pour lui, vectrices “d’apprentissage et d’évolution”. Le manque de tendresse, qu’il reconnaît, ne constitue pas de “véritable souffrance”.

Au cinéma, quand elle n’est pas moquée (“American Virgin”) ou utilisée pour dénoncer le puritanisme de certaines cultures, comme celle des États-Unis dans “Teeth”, l’abstinence est souvent présentée comme émanant de la volonté de l’individu. Dans “40 jours et 40 nuits”, John Hartnett se livre à cette expérience inédite afin de soigner son mal-être. Attristé, il vient de rompre et ne cesse d’enchaîner les coups d’un soir.

Dans la littérature, aussi. L’écrivaine et journaliste de mode Sophie Fontanel s’est mise à l’écart du sexe partagé pendant quelques temps. Un roman, L’envie, en est sorti. Paru en 2011, il aborde les nombreux aspects positifs de ce qu’elle décrit comme une rébellion. 

L’abstinence du confinement, une contrainte?

Mais voilà, l’abstinence n’est pas toujours toute rose, comme le soulève Emmanuelle Richard. Notamment quand elle n’est pas souhaitée, quand elle est subie, forcée. Les problèmes de santé, le cadre de vie, les coutumes culturelles, comme celle d’Afia dans Les corps abstinents à qui, à la mort de son mari, il a été interdit de tomber dans les bras d’un autre pendant les quatre mois et dix jours de deuil. Il existe tout un tas de facteurs. 

Le confinement dans lequel nous sommes en ce moment en fait partie, assure la sexologue Evelyne Dillenseger au HuffPost. Cela concerne les célibataires, certes, mais aussi les personnes en couple qui, pour des raisons familiales ou autres, sont à distance. 

Sous la contrainte, l’absence de sexe partagé peut obséder. “Il peut obnubiler, ajoute la thérapeute. Le sexe est un plaisir, comme l’est la nourriture. C’est comme enlever à quelqu’un aliment qu’il aime bien.” Comment dans cette mesure y trouver des bénéfices? 

Certains ne vont peut-être pas y arriver, concède la spécialiste. “Ils vont ressentir un manque et de la déprime, ajoute-t-elle. C’est un huis-clos où les sens sont exacerbés.” D’autres vont trouver des alternatives, comme prendre le temps de discuter sur les applications de rencontre, se partager des photos dénudées (dans le respect du consentement des différentes parties), regarder du porno…

Se découvrir, se toucher

Le mieux, même si c’est plus facile à dire qu’à faire, est d’admettre. Quoi? Que ces semaines vont se passer entre vous et vous-même. Selon Evelyne Dillenseger, c’est seulement à partir de là “qu’on peut se poser des questions” et entamer un travail introspectif, notamment sur nos pratiques sexuelles. 

Quelle est la place du sexe dans ma vie? Est-ce que je suis dans l’excès? Qu’est-ce que le manque? Peut-on aimer sans désirer, sans se laisser toucher? Ces questions, Dalva se les pose dans Les corps abstinents, devant l’absence de désir physique qu’elle suscite aux yeux de sa partenaire. Son long cheminement, miné d’insécurités, la pousse à examiner ses priorités. “Plein d’idées philosophiques vont sortir de ce confinement”, assure la thérapeute.

C’est le moment de faire le point sur soi, mais aussi sur son entourage, conseille cette dernière. Sur ses amitiés et ses plans cul. Comment les autres réagissent-ils à cette situation? Certains vont nous accabler, d’autres nous réconforter. “On va en apprendre beaucoup sur le comportement sexuel de chacun”, analyse la psychologue. 

C’est un moment inédit pour prendre du recul. On redémarre les batteries, notamment les siennes. “On est plus centré sur soi, donc sur son corps, poursuit l’experte. On va prendre soin de soi. On va se reconnecter à ses sensations personnelles et solitaires.” Le temps est venu de faire connaissance avec ses propres plaisirs. Comment? La masturbation est un élément de réponse. Libre à chacun, maintenant, de faire ce qu’il veut de ses dix doigts. 

À voir également sur Le HuffPost: Céline Tran: “Avant de parler d’éjaculation précoce, apprenez à vous connaître”

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LÝ DO VÌ SAO NHỮNG NGÔI SAO HẠNG A GẠO CỘI NGÀY XƯA GẦN NHƯ CHỈ ĐÓNG NHỮNG BỘ PHIM BOM XỊT NGÀY NAY?

Rob Young, tui đã từng coi rất nhiều phim

Một phần là vì dễ kiếm tiền từ các bộ phim hạng B, và một phần là vì họ chưa bao giờ là diễn viên giỏi cả. Ngoài ra, khán giả thì hay thay đổi (trans: fickle), họ sẽ yên tâm hơn khi xem các diễn viên quen mặt đóng một kiểu nhân vật mà họ quen thuộc. Tôi sẽ phân tích kĩ hơn từng diễn viên theo danh sách dưới đây. Nhân tiện, xin lưu ý rằng diễn viên nào tôi cũng thích theo từng cách riêng.

1. Morgan Freeman

Ông ấy không phải là một diễn viên tệ, nhưng Morgan Freeman đã đóng suốt 1 kiểu vai năm này qua tháng nọ. Ông hầu như luôn nói chuyện bằng một giọng trầm ấm và đóng vai người cố vấn thông thái hỗ trợ cho nhân vật chính. Và xin vui lòng không đề cập đến vai diễn Nelson Mandela trong bộ phim Invictus. Tôi không quan tâm đến việc ông ấy được đề cử bao nhiêu giải thưởng cho vai đó. Ông ta thật kinh khủng trong bộ phim đó. Về cơ bản, MF đóng vai chính là Nelson Mandela. Người đàn ông đạt được nhiều thành quả nhờ có giọng nói và sức thu hút tự nhiên của ông ấy, và đó là những gì khán giả muốn xem.

2. Anthony Hopkins

Tôi có thể nói rằng AH là một diễn viên giỏi. Diễn xuất của Hopkins vẫn vô cùng tuyệt vời, nhưng có vẻ ông đã khá lớn tuổi để tiếp tục đóng phim. Làm việc trên phim trường có thể khá căng thẳng và liên tục trong nhiều giờ. Thêm vào đó, ông đã 81 tuổi, đã qua tuổi nghỉ hưu mà vẫn còn khá sung sức trên sàn diễn. Bạn đã xem vai diễn mới nhất của AH trong King Lear chưa? Hoàn toàn tuyệt vời. Tôi hy vọng sẽ được xem những bộ phim chất lượng hơn của ông. Hơn nữa, hãy trả công cho ông một cách xứng đáng. Hopkins xứng đáng với những nỗ lực không ngừng nghỉ cống hiến cho ngành giải trí hơn 50 năm qua. Anthony Hopkins là một huyền thoại bị đánh giá thấp.

3. Robert De Niro

Một diễn viên giỏi khác nhưng lại chỉ đóng khung một kiểu nhân vật lặp đi lặp lại, chủ yếu là đóng vai những anh chàng bặm trợn. RDN chủ yếu đóng phim vì tiền (xem Dirty Grandpa), nhưng thỉnh thoảng ông lại có một kịch bản vô cùng tâm huyết và đặt tất cả công sức vào đó (xem Hands of Stone). Bạn có biết rằng RDN và Leonardo DiCaprio mỗi người được trả 13 triệu đô la cho vài ngày làm việc diễn xuất cho một bộ phim ngắn của đạo diễn Martin Scorsese để quảng bá một sòng bạc ở Trung Quốc? Vâng ông đã làm điều đó. RDN có vẻ rất thích tiền, nhưng lâu lâu cũng khá dốc sức ra đời một bộ phim hay như một diễn viên thực thụ (trans: stretch his legs as an actor).

4. Bruce Willis

Từ khi nào ông ta được coi là một diễn viên tuyệt vời thế? Không có đâu. Nhưng tôi không thể nói rằng BW đã không cố gắng. Ông đã sắm vai rất nhiều nhân vật mang tính biểu tượng trong nhiều năm qua, và ngày càng trao dồi diễn xuất hơn. BW biết mình có gì và mình cần gì. Khán giả thích xem phim của ông. BW sẽ tiếp tục vai diễn John McClane trong một phần phim Die Hard khác, cũng như vai diễn David Dunn trong Glass. Willis yêu tiền, và mọi người vẫn ủng hộ phim của ông.

5. Al Pacino

Vai diễn tuyệt vời cuối cùng của AP là ở phim Serpico. Kể từ đó, ông thậm chí còn không cố gắng để có thêm một vai diễn hoàn hảo khác nữa. Pacino là một trong những diễn viên lười nhất tôi từng thấy, nhưng khán giả lại cả tin, và họ xem AP là một diễn viên tuyệt vời nhờ giọng nói mang tính chỉ huy của ông. Vai diễn Roy Cohn trong Angels in America, thậm chí tôi còn có thể diễn tốt hơn ông ta. Nhiều người nói rằng AP diễn rất hay trong You Don’t Know Jack. Tôi vui lòng không đồng ý, nhưng tôi nghĩ đó là vai diễn tốt nhất trong nhiều năm. Có vẻ như Pacino đang thực sự cố gắng! Thế thì sao? Ông ấy rất giỏi trong việc đóng những nhân vật tức giận gắt gỏng. Đó chính là lý do tại sao hầu hết những cảnh phim biểu tượng của AP liên quan đến nhân vật đang bộc lộ cảm xúc bạo lực. Pacino diễn rất đạt ở những cảnh đó, và cũng khá vui khi xem.

6. Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage là một trong những diễn viên yêu thích của tôi. Tôi sẽ xem bất kỳ bộ phim nào mà anh ấy tham gia, ngay cả những bộ phim nhảm nhí như Left Behind. Tôi có hai tấm poster phim của anh ấy. Bạn sẽ không bao giờ đoán trước sẽ được thấy điều gì ở những vai diễn mới của anh ấy. Đó là lý do tôi khá thích phim NC đóng. Lý do Cage xuất hiện trong nhiều bộ phim tệ hại gần đây phần lớn là do vấn đề tài chính, đã gây ầm ĩ báo chí vài năm qua. Tuy nhiên, anh ấy vẫn là một diễn viên tuyệt vời khi anh ấy có cố gắng và nỗ lực. Bạn đã xem Mandy chưa? Một vai diễn tuyệt vời!

7. Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bất cứ ai nói rằng AS không phải là một diễn viên có tài thì suy nghĩ lại đi. Ông ta còn có thể luồn lách để trở thành thống đốc bang California mặc dù không hề có bất kỳ kinh nghiệm chính trị thực sự nào cơ mà! Không đùa nữa, AS không phải là một diễn viên thực sự giỏi. Về cơ bản, anh ta hóa thân thành một phiên bản của chính mình trong mọi vai diễn, và đã kiếm được hàng triệu đô la từ đó. Mọi người đều yêu quý Arnie. Ông có một sức thu hút tuyệt vời và một khiếu hài hước bẩm sinh. Đó là một phần lý do tại sao AS trở thành thống đốc. Tôi hy vọng sẽ gặp lại ông trong một số bộ phim nữa, nhưng nói thật với bạn, giờ Arnord đã ở tuổi 70, nên thời gian của ông không còn nhiều nữa, mặc dù tôi nghe nói AS sẽ sớm tham gia một bộ phim truyền hình, vậy nên ai biết được, có lẽ sẽ rất tuyệt đây.

[daycattocgiare]

Bắt chước Chân Tử Đan xoay người đá nắp chai, Trấn Thành nhận cái kết đắng

(Dân Việt) Tuyên bố chỉ cần quay 1 lần đã thành công, Trấn Thành nhận cái kết không ngờ khi chạy theo trào lưu xoay người đá nắp chai.

Clip dàn sao Việt thực hiện thử thách đá nắp chai.

Những ngày gần đây, cộng đồng mạng bỗng rộ lên trào lưu “Thử thách xoay người đá nắp chai” khiến nhiều bạn trẻ lẫn sao Việt “phát cuồng”. Được biết, trào lưu này được nhà vô địch Taekwondo và Hapkido thế giới – Farabi Davletchin khởi xướng từ ngày 25/6.

Để thực hiện, người chơi sẽ đặt một chai nước trên mặt phẳng, rồi quay clip xoay người đá tung nắp chai mà không làm đổ, rơi vỡ chai nước. Ngay sau khi trào lưu này được lan truyền trên mạng xã hội, nhiều nghệ sĩ nổi tiếng thế giới như tài tử “Người vận chuyển” - Jason Statham, hay ngôi sao “Diệp vấn” – Chân Tử Đan, ca sĩ John Mayer,... cũng đã tham gia và thực hiện thử thách đá nắp chai.

 Nhiều ngôi sao quốc tế cũng chạy theo trào lưu xoay người đá nắp chai.

Tại Việt Nam, trào lưu này cũng bắt đầu nở rộ khi Katleen Phan Võ – con gái chưởng môn phái Vịnh Xuân Nam Anh, và hot girl Bạch Trà My cũng tham gia thực hiện thử thách. Ngoài ra, hàng loạt nghệ sĩ nổi tiếng như Ngô Kiến Huy, Jun Vũ, Will, Song Luân, Hoa hậu Phạm Hương,... cũng quay clip đá nắp chai và dễ dàng vượt qua lời thách đấu của bạn bè, đồng nghiệp.

 Ngô Kiến Huy thực hiện thành công thử thách đang gây sốt giới trẻ.

 Hoa hậu Phạm Hương, diễn viên "Hậu duệ mặt trời" phiên bản Việt - Song Luân cũng dễ dàng vượt qua thử thách này.

Bắt kịp “trend” của giới trẻ, mới đây, hai diễn viên hài Trấn Thành và Anh Đức cũng đã quay clip thách thức nhau xoay người đá nắp chai trước ống kính. Ông xã Hari Won còn chê bai, giễu cợt các clip của Ngô Kiến Huy, Will, Jun Vũ là “gian manh”, “lừa đảo”, vì họ phải quay nháp hàng chục lần mới đá bay được nắp chai.

“Thưa quý vị, tôi chỉ cần một cú đá ngang là nắp chai sẽ xoay lên và rớt ra ngoài 180 độ. Một lần và chỉ một lần duy nhất”, nam danh hài tự tin khẳng định.

 Trấn Thành chê bai Ngô Kiến Huy, Jun Vũ và tin rằng anh chỉ quay một lần đã đá trúng nắp chai.

 Màn đá nắp chai thất bại đầy hài hước của ông xã Hari Won.

Tuy nhiên, khi chính thức thực hiện thử thách, Trấn Thành đã khiến Anh Đức và những người có mặt trong clip bật cười không ngớt, khi anh không chỉ đá bay cả chai nước mà văng luôn cả máy quay hình.

“Anh Xìn giỏi quá, đá luôn cái máy quay mà cái nắp vẫn còn nguyên trong chai”, “Tội nghiệp người cầm máy quay, chắc hư luôn cái máy của người ta rồi”,... nhiều khán giả hài hước bình luận về màn đá nắp chai thất bại của Trấn Thành.

Tag:  Tran Thanh, Ngo Kien Huy, Jun Vu, Pham Huong, Chan Tu Dan, xoay nguoi, da nap chai, trao luu, sao Viet   

Nguồn: Sưu Tầm

[dear-indies]

Hello! I hope your day is going well. I was wondering what your favorite faces over 40 were who had no icons at the time of receiving this message? I may start making some and I would like to provide for people who do not have any. No age limit! I'll icon anyone of any age. Thank you so much <3

Non-binary:

John Cameron Mitchell (1963) - non-binary.

Sara Ramirez (1975) Mexican and Irish - non-binary and queer - they/them - I don't believe they have icon resources since coming out as non-binary in 2020.

Parisa Fitz Henley (1977) Afro-Jamaican - non-binary - she/they.

Ser Anzoategui (1979) Argentinian, Paraguayan - non-binary - they/them.

Two-Spirit:

Gloria May Eshkibok (?) Mohawk, Ottawa, Irish, French - two-spirit - she/her.

Women:

Kathy Bates (1948)

Amy Hill (1953) Japanese / Finnish.

Marsha Warfield (1954) African-American - is a lesbian.

Holly Hunter (1958) - deaf in left ear.

Camryn Manheim (1961) - has Rheumatoid arthritis.

Alexandra Billings (1962) African American, Unspecified Native American, European - is trans.

Maggie Cheung (1964) Hongkonger.

Michael Michele (1966) African-American / European.

Chandra Wilson (1969)

Retta (1970) African-American.

Karla Sofía Gascón (1972) - is trans.

Deborah Mailman (1972) Bidjara, Ngati Porou Maori, Te Arawa Maori.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (1973) Tuluva Indian.

Cherylee Houston (1974) - has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Type III hypermobility type.

Linda Cardellini (1975)

Camila Pitanga (1977) Afro Brazilian - is bisexual.

Ivory Aquino (1977/1978) Filipino - is trans.

Lisa Hammond (1978) - has Pseudoachondroplasia and hypermobility syndrome.

Rosamund Pike (1979)

Chrissy Metz (1980)

Angelica Ross (1980) African-American - is trans.

Rain Valdez (1981) Filipino - is trans.

Men:

Chow Yun Fat (1955) Hongkonger.

Hiroyuki Sanada (1960) Japanese.

Emilio Rivera (1961) Mexican.

Kamel El Basha (1962) Palestinian.

Daryl Mitchell (1965) African-American - is paraplegic.

Zahn McClarnon (1966) Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux, Sihasapa Lakota Sioux, Polish, Irish, French, German, and English.

Mo Gallini (1966) Lebanese / Cuban.

Taylor Wily (1968) Samoan.

Brendan Fraser (1968)

Colman Domingo (1969) Afro-Belizean / Guatemalan - is gay.

Jack Black (1969) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, as well as Northern Irish, Scottish, English, remote French and Welsh (converted to Judaism).

Daniel Sunjata (1971) African-American / Irish, German.

Ke Huy Quan (1971) Chinese Vietnamese.

Don Lee (1971) Korean.

Rick Yune (1971) Korean.

Arjun Rampal (1972) Indian.

Daniel Wu (1974) Hongkonger.

Omar Metwally (1974) Egyptian / Dutch.

Jason Sudeikis (1975)

Drew Powell (1976)

Haaz Sleiman (1976) Lebanese - is gay.

David Oyelowo (1976) Nigerian.

Sterling K. Brown (1976) African-American.

Nonso Anozie (1978) Nigerian.

Ian Anthony Dale (1978) Japanese, one eighth Portuguese-Macanese / English, German, French-Canadian.

Jaime King (1979)

Lance Gross (1981) Ghanaian.

Jim Parrack (1981)

That's so kind of you anon!

Let me know if anybody has any suggestions and I'll add them too!

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Lan Phuong was one of my early favorites that season so I couldn’t have been happier when she got an emotional Contemporary routine the very first week of the competition. And well, it doesn’t get much more emotional than a dance about coping with the death of a loved one. The ending where Lan Phuong desperately tries to cling to Van Huy repeatedly, but slips out of his grasp each time along with Van Huy disappearing into the darkness, leaving Lan Phuong standing alone in the spotlight, really gets me since it signifies the inevitability of losing someone in such a drastic and blunt way.

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Friendship ending

A lot of people have had friends dump them because they either voted for Trump or don’t hate Trump enough.

And when they are forced to see that the friends they try to dump aren’t horrible people, they perform mental gymnastics to convince themselves that their former friends are horrible people.

The following is a long rant from one such friend of mine and my response. If you recognize who it is, I DEMAND you seek no reprisal from them. I am keeping them anonymous to protect their identity for just that reason.

... A leftist, really now. Ahaha, oh wow.

*Link to the post I made about Lincoln being shot by a Leftist*-Z

Yes, noted Confederate sympathizer and anti-abolitionist John Wilkes Booth. A leftist.I was already keeping you at a healthy arm's length while putting up a vague semblance of friendship for the sake of not rocking the boat on that one server we're in, but holy shit have you ever lost your damn marbles. I can't do this, lmaoI mean, you've got an impressive collection of bullshit on that blog of yours all around, but this? chef kissHonestly, on some level, you impress me. How someone can claim to be anti-establishment while sucking up to the establishment every possible way they can, how someone can claim to be "seeking truth" only to disregard all evidence that can't be traced back to some skeezy reactionary Facebook page or another delivered to you through the impermeable little bubble of right-wingers you've created for yourself along with the right wing side of mass media your purportedly loathe so much... tell me, just how much cognitive dissonance do you deal with on a daily basis?How does it feel to claim to be "pro life", or to claim that you care about others only to push for measures to restrict access to healthcare, or to vehemently yell against anything the government could do that would make it easier for people to come out of the vicious spiral of poverty?(edited)How does it feel to constantly pretend to care about minorities, but only ever use us as gotchas to other minorities that you've internally designated as universally bad in spite of any evidence to the contrary - not to mention, without ever listening to us if we tell you you did something wrong, instead cherry picking those of us willing enough to suck up to the establishment to tell you what you want to hear, so you never have to confront the idea you may have done something wrong?(edited)Hell, isn't that what they call "virtue signaling" in your circles?Beyond your dishonesty to others, ask yourself this: are you even honest to yourself? Aren't you robbing yourself of any kind of personal growth by doing all this? Are you really contributing anything positive to this world by constantly spreading unchecked factoids that instantly fall apart the moment you expose them to any actual scientific sources (you know, the ones people in your general political corner like to call "fake news"), or by spreading the idea that people in dire straits should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps?Or for that matter, by resisting any measure of change towards a fairer society and instead vocally gushing about the virtues of a system that, by its very nature, its very definition, its very -essence- is about fucking over who you can, and quietly plugging your ears to anything you hear about the many negative consequences it has for the world, or the people living in it?Come back to me once you've learned how to maintain a shred of integrity, I suppose. Maybe take some time to reflect on what it means to be a good person. I can't be friends with someone to whom I have to explain why they should care about other people.Goodbye.

This is my response:

In 1865 John Wilkes Booth, a Democrat, assassinated Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.

In 1881 a left wing radical Democrat shot James Garfield, President of the United States who later died from the wound.

In 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald, a radical left wing socialist, assassinated John F. Kennedy, President of the United States.

In 1975 a left wing radical Democrat fired shots at Gerald Ford, President of the United States.

In 1983 John Hinckley, a registered Democrat, shot and wounded Ronald Reagan and paralyzed a member of his cabinet.

... In 1984 James Huberty, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 22 people in a McDonalds restaurant in San Ysidro, CA.

In 1986 Patrick Sherril, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 15 people in an Oklahoma post office.

In 1990 James Pough, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 10 people at a GMAC office.

In 1991 George Hennard, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 23 people in a Lubys cafeteria.

In 1995 James Daniel Simpson, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 5 coworkers in a Texas laboratory.

In 1999 Larry Asbrook, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 8 people at a church service.

In 2001 a left wing radical Democrat fired shots at the White House in a failed attempt to kill George W. Bush, President of the US.

In 2003 Douglas Williams, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 7 people at a Lockheed Martin plant.

In 2007 Seung - Hui Cho, a registered Democrat, shot and killed 32 people in Virginia Tech.

In 2010 Jared Lee Loughner, a mentalliy ill registered Democrat, shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed 6 others.

In 2011 James Holmes, a registered Democrat, went into a movie theater and shot and killed 12 people.

In 2012 Andrew Engeldinger, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 7 people in Minneapolis.

In 2013 Adam Lanza, a registered Democrat, shot and killed men, women, and children in the Sandy Hook school massacre.

Leftist? Maybe JWB was, maybe he wasn't. But a Democrat, he assuredly was. Perhaps I overreached in saying he was a Leftist, but I should clarify that when I say 'Leftist' I don't mean 'someone on the Left'. I mean someone who believes The Left is the ONLY way. The same way I draw distinction between Muslims and Islamists. Islamists want to push it on others. Muslims are the broadest defition of those who follow Islam.

And what establishment am I sucking up to....? I don't watch Fox with any kind of regularity. I get most of my facts from self-described 'classic liberals' whose hearts are on the Left, but their minds are more centrist. They have intellectual honesty. I listen to Gavin McInnis to blow off steam, Bill Whittle for the Right of Center take on news and Sargon for Left of Center.

I don't care for the mass media because while I suspected that they were liars and obfuscating before, to finally have iron-clad proof of it is extremely liberating.

And I CHALLENGE YOU to show me where I said that women should not have access to healthcare. Or even hinted at it. What, you think because I know Single Payer is garbage that will create a pile of corpses. I'm against healthcare for women? I've even said that my stance on abortions is that it should be between the woman and her doctor, not the woman, the government, the doctor, some pencil pushers and more. Just as my stance on same-sex marriage is that it should be between a couple and the church of their choice, not to make it legally compulsory and simply flip the oppression over rather than making it fair and equal of measure. And where abortions are concerned, the parental rights of the father are nonexistent. Now, in cases such as incest and rape (Which if you look at the stats, represent a small minority of abortions) still strongly urge the mother to consider life, but if she chooses abortion, while I find it extremely distasteful (The child DOES NOT HAVE A SAY IN THIS) I fully understand and sympathize with the decision.

As for helping people out of poverty, you know what's the BEST way out of poverty that ISN'T a government program?

A job. A simple job. And if the government creates conditions that *encourage* job growth, then you accomplish the same end without making people dependent on the governmnet.

That's not to say that there shouldn't be charity for people who TRULY cannot help themselves. That's a given. But when you extend the scope of those within the perview of the government to give money to to include people who CAN help themselves, then you create dependents. And it's not that they're bad or lazy people. They're taking the least complicated route. If you get more money for not working than you do for working, you'll take the one that affords you free time to spend with your family, friends or on your own pursuits.

Constantly pretend to.... universally bad...? WHAT....? Dude, don't even try that one. Blah-blah, anyone Right of Mao is racist, blah. Pardon my French, but go fly a frikken kite. In my tabletop gaming group, my friend Paul, 2nd Generation Japanese immigrant, is the most decent and kind man I've had the pleasure of knowing. He's a good dad to his kids and a good husband to his wife. My freind Zach is from a huge Filipino family and he's the best GM I've ever met, short of my oldest brother. John grew up in a Cadillac before his parents legally became citizens and came up to America from Mexico. These are guys I trust, literally, with my life. And none of us give a crap what the other looks like.

And I admit, for a while I was 100% not on board with Transsexualism. But since then I've come to stand that an adult who has spoken to a therapist and doctor, sorted out their feelings and decided after consideration that they wish to transition is completely fine by me. It doesn't hurt me or anyone else and if they've spoken to a therapist, then they're not setting themselves up for something regrettable. Now, trans-trenders, who want the status of being special and different, but don't want to go through the heartache and effort of making that transition, I call out for their bullshit, because not only are they full of shit, they're robbing REAL transsexuals of their credibility, their agency and their respect. And for some transsexuals to come out and say 'You don't have a right not to have sex with a transsexual', can't you see how that would rub some folk the wrong way?

Don't even try to talk to me about science, friend. I studied biology, agricultural science and psychology and I know a thing or two and when someone obfuscates or has nothing peer-reviewed, then I get suspicious. Again, I'd sorely love for you to point out where I was 'anti-science'.

And if you're suggesting that Socialism is your fluffy 'Fair Society' then I suggest you travel to Venezuala. I have a friend who lives there and the picture he paints is NOT a pretty one. How do you define a 'Fair society'? Because I define it as a society that rewards effort. You do a hard day's work, you make a fair wage and you work your way up the ladder. You can't try to take luck or privilege into account on EITHER Socialism or Capitalism, because there is no way to quantify the variable of luck and when you look at privelege, then it exists in the pipedream of Socialism too, because the people running it will ALWAYS BE BETTER OFF than the people who are not. That's simple human nature. The Great Wheel of Life as the Buddhists describe still exerts its effect on a Socialist state as much as a Capitalist. But unlike Socialism, at least in Capitalism you have, barring disability, the same shot as anyone else does to earn a good living.

I find it laughable that you sit there, where you are, and decry someone you know through occasional chats as either a good person or a not good person based on arbitrary variables.

See, the truth is that life is not as black and white as that. It's an exquisite composition of greys and other colors.

Sometimes life is good, sometimes life is not, but if you are free to self-determination (Something you DO NOT HAVE IN SOCIALISM) then you have a chance to better yourself. You DARE to accuse me of not caring about people out of one side of your mouth, while, with the other, propping up Socialism, which *DOES NOT CARE* about people to the point that a child is worthy of sacrifice due to SIMPLE INCONVENIENCE?! Sorry, but *fuck* that is the very cognative dissonance you accuse me of in plain and flagrant view.

I push myself to be a good person. I don't hurt people, I volunteer, I help the seniors at my church with many needs, I'm there for my friends and family and will drop what I'm doing to help, I treat everyone working retail with respect and actively try to make their day brighter, I don't care what color someone's skin is, I don't care if someone is disabled (My best friend back in Youth Bowling League and a better bowler than I, was a deaf boy named Arron), and I am generally considered to be very 'chill' in person and am so without chemical intervention. Does that make me a good person? I don't rightly know. I just do the best I can with what I've got. And I don't *dare* to assume that I have moral highground unless it's a truly clear-cut case. I've never killed, raped (Even though 3rd Wave Feminism insists that in every man there is a rapist that needs to be taught not to rape_) or stolen anything (Some shoplifting in my youth notwithstanding). In other words, I try to be a decent and polite person and let the world decide if I am or not a good person.

But what boggles my mind is that the line between good person and bad person is tied DIRECTLY to what side of the political spectrum they fall under. That is simplisticly childish. As is the 'Come back to me when you care about people' nonsense.

I will again wait for you to come to your senses and realize that life is not a cartoon with cartoonishly one-note people.

Genuinely warm regards,

-Zucca

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17 delicious foods you can thank immigrants for.

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Immigrants are in the spotlight lately. And not in the good, Patti LuPone/Audra McDonald duet kind of way.

LuPone (left) and McDonald (right). Photo by Drama League/Flickr.

As promised, the Trump administration is advancing its plans to boot millions of immigrants from the United States — and reviving its order to stop them from coming here in the first place.

To hear all your Sean Spicers, your Stephen Millers, and your Kellyanne Conways tell it, the measures are necessary to stop, well, pretty much everything bad currently happening in America — from job-stealing to crime to terrorism.

Convincing Americans that immigrants are more than the sum of their worst stereotypes means winning back some hearts and minds, but these days, it can feel futile to appeal to America's heart or its brain.

But perhaps — perhaps America's stomach is still willing to listen.

Immigrants don't only make America great; they make it delicious. The people who risk their livelihoods and occasionally their lives to come here are often more than happy to share their secret recipes with us. Without them, we'd have nothing to eat ... nothing good, anyway.

Here are 17 of the top contributions to America's culinary scene by refugees, ex-pats, and immigrants.

Try not to drool on the keypad.

1. You wouldn't know about pretty much all the Chinese food you like if it weren't for refugee-turned-immigrant-turned-master chef Cecilia Chiang.

Chang and kung pao chicken. Photos by John Parra/Getty Images and Sodanie Chea/Flickr.

Chiang, who survived the Japanese invasion of China before immigrating to San Francisco in the 1960s, introduced America to the delicious, umami, stir-fried meat pile known as kung pao chicken at her restaurant, the Mandarin.

2. This giant paella wouldn't exist if chef Michael Mina hadn't moved here from Egypt.

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Mina, the guy with the oar, was born in Cairo, immigrated to the U.S. and settled in Washington state, proceeded to open over a dozen restaurants in cities across the country, win a Michelin star, write a cookbook, appear on Gordon Ramsey's "Hell's Kitchen," launch a media company, and, in this photo, somehow managed to combine rice, shellfish, and nautical equipment into something so appetizing you would probably win a free T-shirt for finishing it.

3. Without lax 19th century immigration laws, America would have been denied its birthright: the Bud Light Straw-ber-Rita.

Anyone who watched this year's Super Bowl just for the commercials knows that Adolphus Busch was a hardscrabble German immigrant who trudged through miles of mud and ominously high grass to found the all-American beer company that makes the U.S. the perennial world leader in drunken high school reunion softball games.

4. You'd have to travel to an Eastern European war zone to enjoy these perogis.

Photo by Veselka/Facebook.

In 1954, Ukrainian refugees Wolodymyr and Olha Darmochawal came to New York City and founded Veselka in the East Village, serving these soul-altering fried meat, cheese, and potato pouches by the crock-load to NYU students who have crushed one too many Bud Light Lime Straw-ber-Ritas.

5. This ridiculous pulled turkey burger with Indian spices, candied bacon, and masala fries wouldn't be available in Elvis country.

Maneet Chauhan and the turkey burger. Photos by Theo Wargo/Getty Images and Chauhan Ale and Masala House/Facebook.

One great thing about being alive in 2017 is that you can find South Asian-Southern fusion sandwiches for less than $20 in the middle of the Bible Belt like it's no big deal thanks to immigrants like Indian-American chef Maneet Chauhan (you might know her as a frequent judge on "Chopped"), who opened Chauhan Ale and Masala House in Nashville in 2014.

6. We wouldn't know the gastronomic perfection that is surf and turf served over two cheese enchiladas.

Richard Sandoval and surf and turf. Photos by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images and La Hacienda/Facebook.

Before Richard Sandoval was a "Top Chef Masters" contestant, Bon Apetit Restaurateur-of-the-Year Award winner, and international food star, he was just a Mexico City kid with a dream. That dream? To put fried onions on top of steak on top of enchiladas with some lobster tail and risotto getting freaky on the side, as his La Hacienda in Scottsdale, Arizona, did on Valentine's Day 2017.

7. Anything with Huy Fong sriracha in it would have to be seasoned with a far lesser hot sauce.

Photo by Steven Depolo/Flickr.

Thanks to erstwhile humane values of decades past, America's hottest condiment was given unto us by a refugee — David Tran — who fled his native Vietnam on the ship Huy Fong in the 1970s. Had he come four-and-a-half decades later, it's likely he would have wound up in Canada and invented spicy maple syrup or whatever. (Actually, to be honest, that sounds pretty great. Please, immigrants from tropical climes living in Canada, invent spicy maple syrup.)

8. The Swedes might have chef Marcus Samuelsson's La Isla Bonita all to themselves.

Samuelsson and La Isla Bonita. Photos by Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images and Red Rooster Harlem/Facebook.

With all the problems in Sweden that are totally so real that everyone knows about them, it's no wonder that Samuelsson (who was born in Ethiopia and is another frequent "Chopped" judge) skipped town for New York City, bringing his brand of soul food to Harlem's Red Rooster — including this otherworldy mashup of tres leches cake, rum, passion fruit, and banana.

9. Detroit would be bereft without its iconic chili-onion-mustard dogs.

Photo by Steven Depolo/Flickr.

The precise origin of the Michigan-favorite Coney dog has been debated for decades, but pretty much no one contests that it was invented by Greek immigrants, notably brothers Bill and Gust Keros around 1919, when they discovered — after millennia of flailing by the best chefs in the world — that the ideal condiment for meat was goopier meat.

10. You wouldn't even be able to dream about Jose Andres' ibérico bacon cristal bread uni.

Jose Andres (L) and tapas (R). Photo by Larry French/Getty Images; Jaleo/Facebook.

It's also known as coca con arizos de mar — or "expensive ham 'n fish pizza" — and Andres serves this magical creation at his D.C. tapas restaurant Jaleo. The award-winning chef, who hails from Spain, was one of several dozen who closed his restaurants on Feb. 16, 2017, in protest of the Trump administration's immigration policies.

11. Vending machines, bodegas, and gas station convenience stores nationwide would be thousands of dollars poorer without Flamin' Hot Cheetos on the shelves.

Photo by Calgary Reviews/Flickr.

More than "The Great Gatsby," more than "Rudy," even more than Katy Perry's "Roar," the story of Flamin' Hot Cheetos is the story of the American dream. Working full time as a janitor at a Cheetos factory (!), Mexican immigrant Richard Montañez took home some defective, un-dusted Cheetos after an equipment breakdown, sprinkled some chili spices on them, and presented his creation to corporate bigwigs, who promptly put them into production. The tangy corn tubelettes quickly became the company's #1 selling snack, and Montañez was promoted to executive vice present of multicultural sales and community activation, having successfully pulled himself up by his sticky-dusty bootsraps.

12. Cronuts would not be a thing.

Dominique Ansel and a cronut. Photos by Noam Galai/Getty Images and Chun Yip So/Flickr.

Assuming you could get a cronut, you would be first-born-child-level indebted to Dominique Ansel, the French-born chef who debuted the monstrously scrumptious croissant-donut hybrid in New York City in 2013. Unfortunately, four years later, you still can't get a cronut.

13. Your airport layover would be 1,000% less tolerable without this margherita pizza from Wolfgang Puck Express.

Puck and pizza. Photos by Michael Kovac/Getty Images and Jeff Christiansen/Flickr.

Stuck in Downtown Disney World or delayed getting back to Milwaukee? You could do a lot worse than this gorgeous bubbly cheese pie by Puck, Austria's greatest gift to America since the toaster strudel.

14. You'd have to eat this mouthwatering soft-serve in a cup instead of a cone.

Photo by Mark Buckawicki/Wikimedia Commons.

If there's one thing certain cable news outlets will never fail to remind you, it's that Syrian immigrants are very, very, super-duper scary. Perhaps nothing in history illustrates this better than their most terrifying invention to date, the ice cream cone. The edible frozen treat vessel was created by Abe Doumar, who debuted his creation at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904, the culmination of the Middle Eastern migrant's dastardly plot to improve mankind and delight children of all ages around the world forever and always.

It's not just that immigrants invent food we like to eat. They pretty much cook everything we eat too.

Roughly 20% of restaurant cooks are undocumented, and an even greater share are foreign-born — up to 75% in some cities. That means that immigrants are responsible for feeding you even the down-home comfort food you enjoy, including...

15. This cheeseburger from Hardee's...

Photo by Mr. Gray/Flickr.

16. ...this stock photo apple pie....

Photo by mali maeder/Pexels.

17. ...and this American flag sheet cake.

Photo by Eugene Kim/Flickr.

Immigrants deserve a place in America. And not just because they fill our tummies with tasty victuals.

They enrich our communities and keep our culture varied and interesting. They do the jobs most of us don't want to do. They pay hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes and contribute to our economy in countless measurable and immeasurable ways.

Immigrants and refugees don't come here to get Americans fired, steal our wallets, or blow us up. Most of them come here for a better, safer, more secure life.

They make all of our lives richer — and more delicious — in the process.

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