#The Morgan's are basically June’s extended family

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✦ ・— [ jesse williams. cis man. he/him. ] || OMG! Was that JAKOB ' MILES ' MORGAN wearing the new Chanel boots? Hard to believe that a FASHION DESIGNER could afford those. Ugh, I hate to say it but they kind of pull it off. When you’re FORTY ONE, I guess you think you can do anything. They’ve only been in fashion for at least SIXTEEN YEARS and I’ve heard that they’re INTELLIGENT and SENSUAL but don’t believe everything you read! According to THE HAUS OF RED, they’re actually EASILY TEMPTED and PASSIVE. Ha! Well, I hope they know a million others would kill to be them. They better be watching their back. That’s all. ||

Their Current Rank: 3 stars - growing notability in the fashion world with their personal label, inspired by the row. it is everything that the haus of red is against; it is plain, it is simplistic, it is understated, and it is all his own. the work done for the haus of red is full of life, color, and vibrance.

basics:

nicknames:  really just likes miles, or morgan, over anything else. only family gets the privilege of calling him jake/jakob. whenever he is representing his own label, he ges solely by m.

birthplace: manhatten, new york city.

sexuality: bisexual.

religion: agnostic, unbothered.

relationship: married (separated) - wc is on the main!

date of birth: june 19th.

zodiac sign:  a gemini.

extended traits: a bit of a diva, introverted, paranoid, lonely, unsatisfied, devoted, empathetic, understanding, materialistic, creative, particular, cunning.

hobbies: all things fashion, all things art really, he loves to draw and to sew. knows how to knit, but doesn't do so very often. he loves playing with his cat, he loves sex, he loves good music, a winter coat that is warm with lots of buttons, likes to read magazines, watch movies, cook.

dislikes: personal/nosy questions, paparazzi, press, interviews, nightclubs, getting caught in a lie.

labels/inspo: mary-kate & ashley's careers, both in fashion and acting. troubled child star trope, the eccentric, the hermit, the broken bird, the atoner, the lothario.

fun fact: won manhatten's most perfect baby when he was 1 years old.

BACKSTORY.

tw: drug abuse/addiction.

+ Very much siding on the Haus of Red (subplot information), honestly fully idolized Augustin in life, and mourns him now in death, making a memorial piece in the next collection. He has faced some problems in his personal life, and his work life, due to conflicting desires && whims that he always tries to follow, spreading himself too thin. While he works as a designer on projects more Augustin-level of flare, he owns his own smaller, personal branding of luxury clothes. This is a personal side project, but growing quickly in popularity, as is he, for his extremely stark contrasting designs - and lives. (subplot information ends)

The media has caught on recently to Miles double-life, so they've dubbed it. He was carrying on an affair, now his marriage is on the rocks, and his two lines of work are competition for his time, and the fashion world's spotlight. Eyes have always followed Miles, though, who now goes by his middle name after having first tasted fame under his given, Jakob.

As a child, he was a TV star, beloved into the early 90s in American homes for his sweet lisp, soft eyes, and incredible acting skill. The show ended in 1991, but he remained in the face of the public even after his last acting job at age 15. Unfortunately the following years were difficult for him; Jakob struggled with his mental health, with substance abuse, public outbreaks, and eventually, got fired from a great movie opportunity that was intended to restart his acting career.

By the time he was only 19, Jakob had left the public eye entirely, and his career was rendered over. The media burned hot and bright. The late 90s were a cesspool for celeb gossip, and in comparison to bigger names, he was tame. Still, it was a haunting experience, even now.

In his mid-late 20s, he returned, now working for Haus of Red, and following his newfound passion for fashion & design. It was all he'd focused on during his sabbatical, and even now, he tends to keep a private life, and avoids any/all press.

His personal label is as understated as he tries to let the media believe he is, and it is called ' By M ', simply. His work in the Haus of Red is a more accurate portrayal of his love life, which is, at the moment, a tangled mess of lies and secrets and toxicity. But hey - all is fair in love, war, and fashion.

WANTED.

his ex-lover - wc is on the main, please consider it!

his estranged wife - wc is on the main, please consider it!

family, cousins, siblings, etc; aside from being a bit of a nepo-baby situation, born into old money in manhatten and probably all finding their own levels of fame, i can see siblings or cousins also in the fashion world branding the morgan name! in fact, i would love that, maybe they even got him help getting started in the beginning.

inner circle; miles trusts... no one, really, so these will be friends he has held for 10+ years, probably also aligned within the haus of red, or unafflicted but otherwise involved. they understand he values his personal space, and don't always mind too much when he flakes, cancels, or leaves early. they accept his eccentric behavior and they all collaborate well. of course, they have their drama, like any friend circle does, and probably some beef or tension.

co-workers/industry connections; this long in the haus of red, and you start to feel kind of like you're part of the woodwork. sure, he's upper-mid of the best of them, if you were to ask his opinion, but he knows people. he's been around the block once or twice now, and he knows how to play ball.

rivals; anyone who has come against him; this could be editors/writers with a bad word, those who judge him for maintaining two distinct lines, other designers even in-house.

the confidant; a friend who knew about his affair, and helped hide it.

the betrayal; a friend who knew about his affair, and helped bring it to light.

the muses; the faces of his lines - open to 2-3 model characters. one would be the face of his solo, personal, small label line, by m. the other 1-2 would be associated with his haus of red work. he hates using different models, and hates change, and will always request these models. same goes for any other staff type.

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Winter is Peppermint While Autumn is Cinnamon

Prompt: Bonfire for @tonystarkbingo June Flash Bingo (🎡)

Summary: The comparison of winter to autumn. Part 1/2 of seasons comparison.

A/N: Some cold winter and some romantic autumn. Also, I currently have an obsession with everyone calling everyone Bub so be prepared for that. Also Autumn = Fall for those who decide to change the names of the seasons.

Also can be read on Ao3

Winter was always freezing to Peter ever since that stupid (it wasn’t really stupid, it was actually quite cool) spider bit him he hasn’t been able to thermogate. So in winter it 4 blankets at night and under amour on during the day acting as a full-body heater. The snows pretty though, he can give it that.

Now being winter holidays he’s off school preparing for Christmas with his large extended family (read: The Avengers) and his much smaller Parker-Stark family. Because now Peter Parker-Stark had a family to keep him warm in the winter.

On Christmas eve while everybody else enjoys the cold, outside weather Peter finds himself curled up on the couch.

He can’t even eat the peppermint that pops up everywhere anymore. He’s now allergic.

Tony sees him first, 3 blankets piled on top of him, the heater on full blast in the modern wood cabin that he gets to call his retirement home. “Pete, you okay bub?” The only sound that comes from the blanket pile is a small “hemp” which indicted to Tony that ‘no’ Peter is not ‘okay’.

“Your missing out on all the fun outside,” Tony should be good at persuading but Peter is too cold to even want to listen “it’s too cold outside.”

Sighing Tony nods understanding.

He comes to sit next to Peter putting an arm around him and Peter snuggles into the warmth that the older man brings with him. Turning on the TV the channel changes from the kid’s station that Morgan was watching that morning to a bonfire off the screen “it’s okay we can have our own bonfire inside.”

They can still hear everybody yelling outside but it all feels much better Tony just being here with one of his kids, the person that needs him the most in that one moment.

It’s autumn that Peter thrives in.

The orange and yellows of the leaves the excitement of being colder but not too cold that he’s frozen all the time. + Peter is a basic and so the fact that pumpkins are in season makes his mouth water at the taste of cinnamon.

Tony can deal with autumn.

He enjoys watching his ex-wife making pumpkin muffins and his kids playing in the leaves as if it’s snow. The thing he enjoys most is the essence. He doesn’t know why everybody is happier but everybody is and it’s great to be a part of it.

Morgan also loves the bonfires that Happy makes on weekends. When it’s late at night and all you want to do is sit under the night sky fire warming you up. May and Happy curl up to each other on a love seat. Harley flies in from Tennesse and everything is just great.

And cinnamon is everything. (Not the peppermint that Peter is now allergic to (thanks spider-bite). It’s sweet and hot chocolate becomes in season.

Winter Autumn is great.

“Can you grab me that-” Tony clicks his fingers at Harley only to watch his son smirk “the what old man?” “The cider, Harley, the cider.”

That’s the other thing you can’t forget cider.

Apple cider. The sweetness of drinking it after getting out the lake, a towel placed across shoulders. It’s warm and sitting by the bonfire only makes it all so much better for Peter.

“Harls come here,” “sorry dad, the boyfriends calling.” Peter Harley kiss under the falling leaves for the first time, if Peter told the truth that would be his favourite thing about autumn.

Masterlist / Tony Stark Flash JUNE Flash Bingo Masterpost

Bingo card:

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Life lost in the club Pulse

Today and every day we remember 49 innocent victims lost 3 years ago in Orlando, June 12, 2016. part 2

Christopher Andrew Leinonen, 32

Christopher attended Pulse on Saturday with his boyfriend, Juan Guerrero, who also died in the shooting. “Drew was the best person I’ve ever met. He was a film buff, enjoyed meeting new people, and always put others before himself,” said Leinonen’s friend Joshua. “His boyfriend Juan made him so happy, and they deserved to enjoy that happiness instead of having it taken away from them in a senseless act of violence. Love never goes away and so we will never forget them or how much better they made our lives.”

Rodolfo Ayala-Ayala, 33

Ayala was a Biologics Assistant at OneBlood, a local blood bank. He lived in Kissimmee, Florida. “He liked to joke with his staff and play pranks. Just an overall wonderful person.” "He had a unique style. He could rock a bow tie. He was famous for the bow tie. He wore very vibrant colors. Suspenders. A full hawk one day and the following day blond hair.” “He had an infectious smile. If u were having a bad day he would come in the room with his smile and he would brighten up the whole room. He was just a warm-hearted person. He had so much charisma.”

Luis Daniel Conde, 39

Conde was with his husband and partner of 13 years, Juan P. Rivera, celebrating a friend’s birthday at Pulse. “Juan and Luis were the kind of guys that made you feel welcomed without knowing you, Juan and Luis were always happy. I can’t recall seeing them upset or in an angry state.”

Leroy Valentin Fernandez, 25

Fernandez loved performing, on stage or off. Fernandez went by the name Leroy Valentin at work, and the name Indara onstage.

Jason Benjamin Josaphat, 19

Originally from Haiti, Josaphat was an aspiring photographer who was hedging his bets by studying nursing at Valencia Community College in Orlando, his father, Jackson, tells.

Frank Hernandez, 27

Hernandez worked at a Calvin Klein store in Orlando and had lived in the city for three years.

Akyra Murray, 18

Murray, an honors student, had recently graduated third in her class from the school. She scored 1,000 points for West Catholic Prep’s basketball team and had signed a letter of intent to play at Mercyhurst College.

Mercedez Marisol Flores, 26

Flores and fellow victim Amanda Alvear were best friends, Alvear’s cousin, Lizbeth, tells. “Mercedez and Amanda were the same. They had the same character. They basically were Bonnie and Clyde.” The pair had a 12-year friendship, and had traveled together to places like New York and Puerto Rico.тьShe studied literature at Valencia College, and was an avid music fan, the Sentinel reported. “She really did live her life the way she wanted to,” Flores’ niece Jennifer told the paper.

Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, 25

Menendez had an associates degree as a pulmonary tech and then went to cosmetology school. He wanted to become a nurse and was going back to school in September.He was born in Manati, Puerto Rico, and moved to Orlando, where he lived with his mother and grandmother.

Simon Adrian Carrillo Fernandez, 31

The store manager at a local McDonald’s, Fernandez, “loved listening to music, eating, watching cars and he loved buying watches.”

Oscar A. Aracena-Montero, 26

Oscar was a very sweet guy. Very sweet to everybody,” Acarena-Montero’s cousin Yamilka Pimentel told the Sentinel. “Every time he met somebody they would like him a lot. He was the type of guy who goes along with anybody.” Pimentel said that Acarena-Montero had been on vacation just one day before the attacks, returning from New York on Saturday.

Enrique L. Rios, Jr., 25

Rios was in Orlando for a friend’s birthday party and had planned to return to New York City in time for Sunday’s Puerto Rican Day Parade. He wanted “to kick back and have a good time,” Oliveras says. “This was supposed to be his vacation. I wish he never went.”

Miguel Angel Honorato, 30

Honorato was a married father of three boys, aged 15, 2, and 1. The manager of his family’s restaurant, Tortilleria #2, Honorato was a hard worker and a dog lover who enjoyed spending time with his extended family and friends. A Mexico native, Honorato loved traveling, and had been in the United States as a teenager.

Juan P. Rivera Velazquez, 37

Rivera, another Puerto Rico native, was the owner of Alta Peluqueria D’magazine hair salon in Kissimmee.

Juan Chevez-Martinez, 25

A native of Hidalgo, Mexico, Chavez-Martinez came to the Orlando area to visit with family members and “to have fun,” his cousin Margarita Perez tells. He had been in Florida for roughly a year when he was killed.

Tevin Eugene Crosby, 25

Crosby was voted West Iredell High’s “unsung hero” when he graduated from the North Carolina school in 2010, reported the Charlotte Observer. The designation meant that while Crosby wasn’t “the strongest academically,” he showed “integrity and determination,” his former English teacher Jacqueline Scott said. “I remember his smile, his love of life. … I want people to know the laughter and the joy he spread,” she said, noting that he was “doing well for himself.” Living in Michigan, Crosby was a business owner was only visiting Orlando on Sunday.

Jonathan Antonio Camuy Vega, 24

Tampa’s Gaither High School who worked at JP Morgan Chase, Fox 13 News reported.

Paul Terrell Henry, 41

Jaymie Glaspie, who said he was Henry’s best friend, tells, “He was an outgoing and fun-loving guy. He was very nurturing, very caring.” Glaspie says Henry had a son. “He was a really great dad. It’s so sad,” he tells.

Joel Rayon Paniagua, 32

Paniagua’s cousin Jose tells that the last he heard from the 32-year-old was that he was texting with a friend. “At a certain point, he stopped responding,” Luis says. Paniagua didn’t go to the club very much but liked Pulse because it was so inclusive: “There were men and women there. Anybody could go.”

Jean C. Nieves Rodriguez, 27

Rodriguez, was remembered by family and friends as a kind man and a hard worker. Nieves Rodriguez, originally from Puerto Rico, had worked as manager of a McDonald's and a check-cashing store and bought his first house a month and a half ago, the Orlando Sentinel reported.

Yilmary Rodriguez Solivan, 24

Solivan was a married mother of two sons. “She was the most loving and caring person you could ever meet, her smile lit up the room and her laughter brought a smile to your heart!” wrote her sister Natalia Canlan.

Angel L. Candelario-Padro, 28

Originally from Puerto Rico, Candelario-Padro moved to the Chicago to attend optometry school. He was about to join the Florida Retina Institute in Lake Mary, Florida, as an ophthalmic technician on June 20, according to Martinez. As a side gig, Candelario-Padro worked as a Zumba teacher. “He could dance up a storm,” his friend adds.

Antonio Davon Brown, 29

Brown, a native of Cocoa Beach, Florida, was a 2008 graduate from the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University where he majored in criminal justice and was part of the ROTC program. He was a very positive person with a very good sense of humor.

Geraldo A. Ortiz-Jimenez, 25

Ortiz-Jimemez was in school for acting. A resident of Carolina in Puerto Rico, he was Dominican by birth.

Alejandro Barrios Martinez, 21

Martinez relocated to Florida just one year ago from Cuba, a friend of the 21-year-old told the the Sentinel. Always with a smile on his face, Martinez was “the type of person who would see you in a parking lot and he’d have a whole conversation with you.”

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Best Dick Jokes Through History – Why Sexual Comedy About Men Is Important – Esquire

Blake Griffin landed a dick joke about Caitlyn Jenner at the Comedy Central Roast of Alex Baldwin, which aired last weekend. “Caitlyn completed her gender reassignment in 2017, finally confirming that no one in that family wants a white dick,” he said to roars of laughter. Was the joke offensive? Racist? Hilarious? All of the above? For her part, Jenner took the dick joke in stride. “Caitlyn was down for it,” one of the writers of the roast said. “She was like, ‘Well, you know, I’m gonna hit hard. I want them to hit me hard.’ And so we did.”

Dick jokes have existed throughout history in nearly every culture known to man, from the greatest literature of all time—Shakespeare and James Joyce—to ancient graffiti. “Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!” some anonymous guy scrawled on the wall of a bar in the Roman city of Pompeii around 2,000 years ago. They have been staples of comedy for millennia for a reason: They’re nearly universally appealing.

“Whether you’re rich or poor or black or white, everyone laughs at a dick joke,” says comedian Aaron Berg, who hosts a recurring show at The Stand in New York City. (Berg also hosted a somewhat controversial, entirely satirical show called White Guys Matter that addressed some aspects of white male inadequacy.)

One comedian has elevated dick jokes to poetry, launching them into the realm of high art: Jacqueline Novak, whose one-woman off-Broadway show about blow jobs, Get on Your Knees, manages to make the dick joke both hilarious and high brow. She’s not the first woman to tell a dick joke, nor will she be the last, but she is perhaps the only one to devote a show almost entirely to the penis (with a few minutes sidetracking to ghosts) and be feted by The New York Times for doing so.

Novak, who has been called a “deeply philosophical urologist,” may represent a tipping point in dick jokes, because her show is finally allowing people to see the wisdom (yes, wisdom) in penis humor.

“I don’t even think of myself as like, interested in telling penis jokes. I certainly wouldn’t sit down and go, I’d love to do a show about penises,” Novak says. “I think it’s more like an investigation of my heterosexuality. Does [being heterosexual] mean I love the penis? I’m interested in the language that I’ve been expected to use or accept as legitimate about the penis. Here’s all the reasons that that’s ridiculous.”

Novak’s show is replete with riffs on our “ridiculous” penis language, from the fact that we say the penis is “rock hard”—”No geologist would ever say, this quartz is penis hard“—to the idea that the penis penetrates a woman—”You penetrate me? Fine, but I ate you, motherfucker! I chewed you up! Spit you out, and you loved every goddamn second of it.” In some ways, Novak is the perfect teller of the 21st century dick joke, not only because she is chronicling our hangups about the penis, but also because without a penis of her own, perhaps she is able to see the dick more clearly for what it is, in all its ridiculousness and beauty.

“You penetrate me? Fine, but I ate you, motherfucker! I chewed you up!”

But for the most part, phallic culture remains incoherent. Men are pilloried for exposing their dicks, while Euphoria is celebrated for its 30-penis episode; dick pics are critiqued like Picassos or seen as a public menace; judging a man by the size of his penis is perfectly acceptable or grossly objectifying; porn covers every inch of the internet, yet Facebook won’t accept ads for dildos. Dick jokes are still looked down on as cheap—to be fair, some of them are blatantly bad—but some comics say that isn’t always fair.

“Dick jokes, if you craft something amazing out of them, could be the funniest thing someone’s ever heard. And funny in a way that like, opens your mind up even,” says comedian Sean Patton. “That’s the most important kind of comedy, where you laugh at something to the point where you’re now a little more accepting of it. And that can range from anything to other people’s sexual orientation to accepting your own mental illness.” Patton’s own extended dick joke, “Cumin” on Comedy Central’s This Is Not Happening, has been viewed over 2 million times on YouTube.

Jacqueline Novak performs at the 2019 Clusterfest in June.

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Novak uses the blow job to critique cultural expectations of masculinity and the pressure women feel to become skilled at sexually pleasing men. “The teeth shaming starts early, of course,” she says in her show. “If you have your full set of teeth…don’t go into a room where a penis is. It’s not safe for him. Why would you put him at risk?”

Patton likens the dick joke to a “Trojan horse” of comedy. “You make them laugh hard at dick jokes, now they’re listening,” he says. “Then you can throw in something a little more meaningful, and they’re on board.”

Not that all dick jokes need to be intellectual to be taken seriously. The song “D*** in a Box” by The Lonely Island, featuring Justin Timberlake, won an Emmy. It turns out the concept wasn’t exactly new. “Decades before The Lonely Island, B.S. Pully was doing that in the ’40s and ’50s,” comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff says. “Pully would be holding a cigar box at his groin, walking down the aisle. [He would] start a show saying, ‘Cigar, would you like a cigar?’ Then he would lift up the lid, and there was a hole cut in there, and his dick was hanging out. The audience would go crazy.”

Dick jokes continue to thrive off audience reactions, according to several comedians I talked to. Bonnie McFarlane, who is best known for her appearance on Last Comic Standing and her Netflix documentary Women Aren’t Funny, began telling dick jokes when she started out in 1995. “You tell dick jokes because it’s a very male audience, so that’s what they want to hear about,” she says. “It’s been a thing since comedy started. People can really kill if they’re just doing dick jokes.” But there is a double standard, she says, when female comics are made fun of “for talking about their vaginas too much.”

That Novak, a female comic, is revolutionizing the dick joke makes sense, considering that historically, “the vanguard for so-called dick jokes and sexual material comes first and foremost from women rather than men,” Nesteroff says. He points to female comics Rusty Warren, Belle Barth, Pearl Williams, and LaWanda Page as “probably the four quote-unquote ‘dirtiest’ comedians of the ’50s and ’60s, more so than Lenny Bruce, more so than Redd Foxx.”

LaWanda Page performs for The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast in 1978.

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He also says African Americans pushed dick jokes further than any other ethnicity. African-American comedian Page’s albums from the 1970s were rich with dick jokes, referencing “the size of the man, the endurance of the man,” Nesteroff says. As Page recites in her 1973 comedy album Pipe Layin’ Dan: “Husband, dear husband, now don’t be a fool/you’ve worked on the night shift ’til you’ve ruined your tool/you’d better go hungry the rest of your life/than to bring home a pecker so soft to your wife.”

“LaWanda [told] dick jokes for the same reasons a lot of black comics do, because they had to come up in the chitlin circuit, which is basically comedy clubs or bars or places where only black audiences mainly go,” says comedian Harris Stanton, who has toured with Tracy Morgan. “When I started comedy [in 1999] I started in the chitlin circuit,” he continues. “Urban comedy became this big explosion in the United States. A lot of the young black comics couldn’t get into a lot of mainstream clubs, so they would have to perform wherever they could, and dick jokes were welcome to those places.”

African Americans were pioneers of the dick joke, but they definitely weren’t the only ethnic group telling them. Three of the other female sex-joke pioneers Nesteroff mentioned were Jewish. Pearl Williams was known for roasting overweight men when they entered the comedy club by asking, “How long has it been since you’ve seen your dick?” Lenny Bruce, one of the most famous Jewish comedians, was arrested for saying schmuck on stage in 1962. Seven years later, another famous American Jew, Philip Roth, published Portnoy’s Complaint, which is essentially a 274-page dick joke, or so some claim.

“How long has it been since you’ve seen your dick?”

“I probably owe a debt to Philip Roth that I’m not even fully aware of,” says Novak, who is Jewish. She references him directly in her show, joking, “I went off to college feeling good. It’s a Catholic-ish college. Lots of virgin boys scurrying around, scrambling for sexual experience at parties. Not me. I’m a Jew and I did the coursework in high school, so I felt like a Philip Roth figure. A Jewish pervert ready to teach.”

Jewish male comics may be drawn to dick jokes, according to Berg, who is Jewish, because, “the fact that our penises were intruded upon at a very young age probably gives us a fixation on it and makes us want to talk about it more.”

Dr. Jeremy Dauber, the Atran professor of Yiddish language, literature, and culture at Columbia University and author of Jewish Comedy, traces Jewish dick jokes all the way back to the Bible. The earliest case of laughter in Jewish tradition is Sarah’s laughter when she’s told that her 100-year-old husband Abraham will give her a child. It is “a laughter about male impotence,” Dauber says.

But comedians aren’t just laughing at penises anymore. Novak is going in the opposite direction. “I’m trying to restore [the penis] to true dignity.” Will her intellectual blow job jokes allow the dick joke to be taken more seriously? Will future comedians have to deal with the flack that Patton still gets in his reviews?

“Even like positive reviews, sometimes they’ll still point out there’s also a lot of cock, cock cock,” he says. “Why do you have to make sure everyone knows that you thought some of the subject matter was lowbrow?” He thinks reviewers roll their eyes at his dick talk because “everyone constantly is terrified that those around them don’t think that they’re that smart.”

Comedy is one of the only art forms that allows us to talk about male genitalia so openly and democratically. Whatever form the dick joke takes, from idiotic to intellectual, from poetry to prop comedy, as long as it gets a laugh, it should be celebrated. And there’s no better way to diffuse the angst surrounding the modern-day penis than a well-crafted dick joke. The more we laugh about penises (and not just at them), the happier the world might be.

Hallie Lieberman Hallie Lieberman is a sex historian and journalist, and the author of “Buzz: A Stimulating History of the Sex Toy.”  

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How a assembly in Dorchester in 1971 performed a role in a judge's busing ruling

On June 21, 1974, Federal Choose W. Arthur Garrity issued his acquiring that Boston’s faculties were segregated by the actions of the Boston School Committee. He ordered busing as a treatment commencing that September.

There was fierce opposition to the ruling amid several whites in Boston when Black people and youngsters acted with bravery that tumble when rocks pelted their buses on arrival at their new colleges.

The heritage of so-named “busing era” in the middle of the 1970s is a tale of some of the most significant events in Boston in the next 50 percent of the final century.

The suit that began it all – Morgan v. Hennigan – was filed on March 14, 1972. The named plaintiff, Tallulah Morgan, was just one of 15 Black parents with 43 children driving the suit the named defendant was James Hennigan, the chairman of the Boston University Committee.

A major influence on Decide Garrity’s decision happened at a September 20,1971 assembly at the Patrick O’Hearn College (now named the William Henderson Inclusion Faculty) on Dorchester Avenue around St. Mark’s Church and Fields Corner. Some 400 moms and dads, most of them white, crammed the school auditorium though various hundred additional listened exterior.

The impetus for the collecting was a vote taken by the College Committee that yr to overturn a vote it experienced taken in the late 1960s involving the construction of a new school on Talbot Avenue named immediately after a longtime faculty committee member, Joseph Lee.

The faculty experienced obtained distinctive state funding on the issue that it be opened as an built-in faculty, and the University Committee experienced agreed to this at a time when the neighborhoods around the Lee School were being general relatively built-in.

The nearby Franklin Subject and Franklin Hill developments housed mostly Black families and the neighborhood streets close by around Woodrow Avenue and off Norfolk Street had been primarily populated by white citizens. 

But by 1971, those demographics had modified noticeably. In 1968, most of this area was designated by the Boston Banks Urban Renewal Group (BBURG) to permit African Americans to buy residences there, a stunning go on its deal with due to the fact Black households in the city had long been discriminated from when it arrived to home getting. 

Considering that the BBURG system restricted the place its plan could be utilised typically to this place, real estate firms quickly established up offices there and utilized vicious blockbusting tactics to get whites to promote and shift out of the community. The real estate firms’ conspiracy concerned a marketing campaign of doorway-to-door canvassing, mailings, and phone calls to urge white people to promote, stating explicitly that because Blacks have been going in, they wouldn’t get a good rate if they did not provide ideal away.

In just couple decades, the proof of how this malevolent hard work experienced succeeded was stark: Hundreds of whites, a large amount of them Jews from the streets off Blue Hill Avenue, were being absent from the BBURG neighborhoods, leaving the spot predominantly Black and the Lee College no extended a prospect for significantly built-in standing.

In an endeavor to continue to keep the determination to open up the university as built-in, the School Committee arrived up with a program for some white learners from the neighborhoods about the O’Hearn in the St. Mark’s/Fields Corner region and the Emily Fifield University in Codman Sq. to be assigned to the Lee Faculty and some African-American students to be assigned to courses at the O’Hearn and Fifield campuses. The University Committee voted, 3-2, to approve the prepare, which was not probably to be well known with white parents.

Some Black mother and father had been not delighted with their young children staying assigned to a college located as considerably a mile absent from wherever they lived, specifically because the nearby Lee Faculty was manufacturer new, with a particular auditorium for the arts, a massive gymnasium, and other particular options.

Several white moms and dads ended up opposed to obtaining their little ones go to a farther away university in a Black community so that it would open up integrated. Some of this response was driven by worry, some of it by resentment that their children would have to go away their neighborhood faculty, and some of it by racism. 

Black mother and father in basic considered that built-in faculties had been their childrens’ only route to good instruction as overall the colleges in Black neighborhoods had fewer means, less expert academics, and desired a lot more repairs.  But in this circumstance, some of these parents favored a close by new university to getting their children travel farther to integrate one more college.

White dad and mom from sections of Codman Square, the St. Mark’s spot, and Fields Corner quickly organized by themselves and established out to get the College Committee to reverse the final decision.  The Sept. 21 mass meeting at the O’Hearn University was a forum for their enterprise.

All the area (all white) Dorchester politicians were there with the moms and dads….Condition Reps. Paul Murphy and Joseph Walsh, point out Sen. George Kenneally, and then-Congresswoman Louise Working day Hicks. Rev. Leonard Burke, the pastor at St. Matthew’s Church on Stanton Street down from Codman Sq., was a main chief of this energy. 

The focus of the organizers was University Committee member James Craven, who was then operating for City Council. His prospects in that election faced excellent odds considering the fact that he experienced voted for this coverage that experienced white parents up in arms. Craven utilised the celebration to announce that he was changing his vote, a instant greeted by loud cheers since his reversal insured the repeal of the Lee Faculty strategy. Craven claimed he’d originally been supplied fake info on the specifics of the approach, declaring that his candidacy for Metropolis Council, which failed in the finish, had practically nothing to do with his improved vote.

State Education Commissioner Neil Sullivan said he was “completely amazed and considerably disappointed” by the vote to reverse the integration prepare. Congresswoman Day Hicks, the very long-time leader of opposition to college desegregation, said at the conference that she was “delighted to be in this article and choose portion in democracy in motion,” in accordance to a Boston Globe report.

Make sure you take what you may perhaps have experienced or go through about the attitudes and politics that prevailed in 1971 and place yourselves in the sneakers of the white and Black moms and dads (and college students) and think about what you could have carried out in that predicament.

I recall chatting to one particular white parent, Patricia “Pat” Jones, now deceased, who attended this meeting in opposition to the integration approach. A couple of years later on, she labored for the Citywide Education and learning Coalition that attempted to support make the courtroom-requested desegregation begun in 1974 accomplish its purpose.  Not numerous white doing work-course individuals would have related themselves for a team like that in these times.

Black dad and mom submitted the Morgan v. Hennigan fit six months just after these occasions, on March 14, 1972, and the Boston NAACP and the Center for Regulation and Education and learning represented them.

James Hennigan often resented the court docket go well with owning his name on it irrespective of his obtaining voted in favor of the integration plan for the Lee Faculty. As advised in Jim Vrabel’s “A People’s Record of the New Boston,” Hennigan was lamenting: “People stated there was no leadership, but when we tried out to demonstrate management, the individuals did not want it.”  Choose Garrity’s 1974 determination discovering segregation and purchasing busing was appreciably impacted by the University Committee’s reversal in this story of the Lee, O’Hearn, and Fifield schools.

The Boston faculties however assign learners primarily based on the legacy of that courtroom determination. Little ones do not probable go to their neighborhood college, but a single of lots of in a part of the metropolis that they utilize to.  The ugly incidents of racism amidst the protests from busing stained Boston’s standing for many years into the present. 

Mayor Kim Janey created a level to check out the Edwards School in Charlestown on her first working day in office environment. That was wherever she had been bused as a small woman and greeted with racial slurs and rocks as her bus arrived. 

It has now been 50 decades because that Dorchester marketing campaign and meeting proved sizeable in the huge functions we variously connect with busing and desegregation.

Lew Finfer is a Dorchester resident and an organizer for Massachusetts Communities Action Community.

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Must Watch Drama TV Series That Will Break Your Rom-Com Fatigue

Spending time in quarantine allowed us to explore the list of series we could not have watched because of our busy lives. Netflix is a hub of some unexplored gems which need your attention. No Matter how much you like Rom-com, horror, or comedy, Drama series is itself an undisputed genre everyone likes to watch once in a while.  Here, we will explore some Drama series you must give a try if you want to take a break from some basic genre list:

Ozark

Ozark is a criminal drama series directed by Bill Dubuque and Mark Williams and produced by Media Rights Capital. Ozark star cast includes Marty Byrde played by Jason Bateman and Windy Byrde played by Laura Linney as lead roles and Charlotte played by Sofia Hublitz, Ruth by Julia Garner, Roy Petty by Jason Butler Harner, Jonah Byrde by Skylar Gaertner. The series revolved around a Mexican drug racket when a scheme of money concealing went wrong, and Byrde tried to amend it by launching a bigger mission in Missouri. To protect his family, Marty shifts his family to a far-away resort of Osage Beach. Going on Marty deals with the local yet powerful families of Langmore and Snell and then Kansas Mafia.

Hannibal

Hannibal series will satisfy your hunger for some psychological horror. Bryan Fuller directs the series. The series is a movie depiction of Thomas Harris’s series of Novels like Red Dragon, Hannibal, and Hannibal’s rising characters. Star cast includes Will Graham played by Hugh Dancy, Hannibal Lecter played by Mads Mikkelsen, Alana Bloom played by Caroline Dhavernas, Beverly Katz played by Hettienne Park, Jack Crawford by Laurence Fishburne, Brian Zeller by Scott Thompson and Bedelia Du Maurier by Gillian Anderson

The story revolves around Will Graham, an FBI Profiler is asked to assist Jack Crawford to probe a homicidal maniac. Graham is supervised by a psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal as Graham’s findings will decide the fate of this investigation. On the other hand, Lecter, the serial killer, tried to bond with Graham within the FBI and took advantage of Graham’s sympathetic behavior towards psychopathic convicts and converted him into a murderer itself.

Mindhunter

Mindhunter is a crime thriller series directed by Joe Penhall. This series is a movie depiction of a real crime book named “MindHunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit” by Mark Olshaker and John E. Douglas. The cast includes Holden Ford played by Jonathon Groff, Bill Tench by Holt McCallany, Wendy Carr by Anna Torv, Debbie Mitford by Hannah Gross, Robert Shepard by Cotter Smith, Nancy Tench by Stacey Roca, Gregg Smith by Joe Tuttle, Ted Gunn by Michael Cerveris, Kay Manz by Lauren Glazier, Jim Barney by Albert Jones, Tanya Clifton by Sierra McClain and Camille Bell by June Carryl

The series revolves around the two FBI agents along with a psychologist who runs the Behavioural Science Unit in Quantico, Virginia. They investigate how serial murderers think and replicating the

The Crown

The Crown talks about the monarchy of Queen Elizabeth II written by Peter Morgan and produced by Left Bank Pictures and Sony Pictures. The cast of the series include Claire Foy and Olivia Colman as the lead role, Prince Philip by Matt Smith, Duke of Edinburgh by Tobias Menzies, Princess Margaret by Vanessa Kirby, Helena Bonham as Countess of Snowdon by Helena Bonham and Queen Mary by Eileen Atkins

There is a four-season of this series with each season focusing on different periods.

§  The first season depicts the journey of Queen Elizabeth II after her marriage with Philip Mountbatten in 1947 and when Princess Margaret broke her engagement with Peter Townsend.

§  The second season depicts the period of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan’s resignation and the birth of Prince Edward.

§  The third season covers the Harold Wilson era as a Prime Minister and entry of Camilla Shand.

§  The fourth season introduces Lady Diana Spencer and Margaret Thatcher while the fifth and sixth season depicts the Queen’s monarchy of the 21st Century.

The Haunting of Hill House

The Haunting of Hill House is an anthology series depicting scenes of supernatural horror, and family drama. Directed by Mike Flanagan and produced by Paramount Television and Amblin Television. The cast of the series includes Steven Crain played by Michiel Huisman, Olivia Crain by Carla Gugino, Hugh Crain by Timothy Hutton, Shirley Harris by Elizabeth Reaser, Luke Crain by Oliver Jackson, Theodora by Kate Siegel and Nell Crain by Victoria Pedretti.

This story revolves around the family who moves into a hill house to renovate it with the intention to sell it. But because of constant breakdowns, the stay of the Crain family is extended and soon the children start to experience paranormal events majorly associated with their mother. It forces them to flee from the house. After more than two decades, they gather again to resolve the tragic death of the youngest sibling resulting in uncovering terrifying truths about the house.

These web series will help you to overcome the classic comedy and Rom-Com fatigue and will surely add some excitement to your watch list. Let us know in the comment section below, which is your favorite series?

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Pandemic Exacerbates Health and Economic Concerns for LGBTQ People of Color

Everyone should be able to access health care and take needed time off to care for themselves or loved ones without fearing for their livelihood -- the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored this need. Many people across the commonwealth are experiencing significant challenges in this moment, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, trangender, and queer and/or questioning (LGBTQ) communities, particularly LGBTQ people of color, face additional barriers to critical supports such as income, health coverage, and paid leave. In recent months, policy victories at the state and federal level have made important strides toward equality for the LGBTQ community. Yet Virginia lawmakers must take additional steps to address both the basic and unique needs of LGBTQ people of color highlighted by the current health and economic crises.

Discrimination in hiring, health care, and housing place LGBTQ people of color at higher risk of serious complications from COVID and higher rates of economic instability due to lost jobs during the pandemic. In Virginia, LGBT people are more likely to be unemployed, uninsured, and food insecure, and are more likely to have income less than $24,000, compared to non-LGBT adults. Around 40% of LGBT individuals in Virginia are people of color, a group that has been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. While people of color make up just 39% of Virginia’s population, as of July 7, 72% of confirmed COVID-19 cases with race/ethnicity data are people of color. Unequal health and economic outcomes have long been an issue and may have been compounded by the economic and health implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. And for those who face discrimination along multiple axes of inequality, such as LGBTQ people of color, these impacts can be even more severe.

Nationally, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating economic impact on LGBTQ communities of color -- 38% of LGBTQ people of color have had their work hours reduced, compared to 29% of white LGBTQ people and 24% of the general population, and 22% of LGBTQ people of color became unemployed, compared to 14% of white LGBTQ people and 13% of the general population. LGBTQ people of color are also more likely to have asked for delays in paying bills (19%, compared to 14% of white LGBTQ people and 12% of the general population) and rent (14%, compared to 8% of white LGBTQ people and 7% of the general population). This indicates that the pandemic has taken an immense economic toll on LGBTQ people of color.

This economic insecurity could be due in part to the fact that people who are LGBTQ are more likely to work in industries that have been highly impacted by efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19, such as food service or restaurants, and are at high risk of losing shifts or jobs. And a higher likelihood of LGBTQ people in Virginia earning below $24,000 annually could also result in living paycheck to paycheck and being unable to put away money to deal with reduced or loss of income due to COVID-19. 

In addition to the economic burdens resulting from COVID-19, access to medical care is a significant concern. Nationally, one in five LGBTQ adults, including 23% of Black LGBTQ adults and 24% of Latinx LGBTQ adults, have not seen a doctor when needed because they couldn’t afford it. LGBTQ people, particularly LGBTQ people of color, also lack health insurance coverage at a higher rate (17%, including 23% of LGBTQ people of color) than the non-LGBTQ population (12%).

Discrimination also acts as a barrier to health care access for the LGBTQ community. Nationally, 16% of LGBTQ respondents say they have been discriminated against by a doctor or health clinic based on their sexual orientation or gender identity, and 18% say they have avoided going to a doctor or seeking health care because they were afraid of discrimination. These factors can lead to avoidance of medical care and the worsening of health concerns that affect LGBTQ people and Black people at higher rates, such as asthma, and put them at an increased risk of complications related to COVID-19.

Finally, lack of access to paid medical leave is a problem for many working adults, and presents a particular challenge to LGBTQ workers, many of whom have low incomes and therefore may not have the savings to weather an unpaid absence from work. In a 2018 survey, only 29% of LGBTQ respondents reported having access to a paid leave program through their workplace for personal medical reasons. Access to paid leave is crucial for families with low wealth who may not have the resources to take extended unpaid time off. The status quo forces too many working people to choose between their health or taking care of a loved one and paying for essentials like housing and food. No one should be forced to make that decision.

During the 2020 session, the Virginia General Assembly passed Senate Bill 868, prohibiting discrimination in public accommodations, housing, and employment on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Additional legislation provided protections against discrimination in state-regulated health insurance plans and other important areas. And in June, the United States Supreme Court decided that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects employees from being fired for being gay, lesbian, or transgender. While these choices may be significant in moving Virginia toward being a more inclusive state, as communities of color well know, formally prohibiting discrimination does not end it, nor does it undo the harms of past discrimination. Virginia lawmakers must do more to meet both the basic and unique needs of LGBTQ people of color.

Similarly, although progress has been made in extending health insurance access to more LGBTQ people in Virginia, additional work remains. The Affordable Care Act included important coverage expansions for low-income people -- a group that includes many LGBTQ people -- and also provided new non-discrimination rules. Since its implementation, the rates of health insurance coverage for lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals has increased at the national level, including through increased enrollment in Medicaid. (The most recent Virginia data on health coverage for LGBTQ people is prior to the state’s implementation of Medicaid expansion in January 2019.) 

However, targeted outreach and enrollment efforts could further improve health coverage rates for LGBTQ people, especially for those who may have experienced discrimination in medical settings and while interacting with health insurers. Key strategies such as partnering with LGBTQ community organizations, developing LGBTQ-specific materials and messages, and distributing information at LGBTQ community events could help Virginia to connect more members of the community with coverage options.

Cultural competency and cultural humility training are also necessary steps toward providing equitable medical care for LGBTQ people of color. Together with cultural competence, which emphasizes awareness of and being responsive to cultural differences, cultural humility calls on health care professionals to self-evaluate, recognize their own biases, and to address the power imbalance of the provider-patient relationship. This approach could help to better treat patients from diverse backgrounds and reduce disparities in care. Virginia should take a step in this direction and join the 10 states that already require cultural competency training for physicians, surgeons, physician assistants, nurses, and/or therapists in order to provide essential care that centers the lived experiences of people and communities.

Additionally, members of the LGBTQ community need access to paid time off to care for themselves and loved ones, both during and beyond the threat of the pandemic. The federal government implemented a temporary paid sick program and a paid child care leave program through the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). Lawmakers in Virginia should go further by enacting a statewide paid family and medical leave program. Such a program would provide workers with low incomes and workers of color -- groups with historically less access to paid leave -- the opportunity to take the necessary time off to care without having to worry about losing their jobs or income. Such a program should recognize and include a variety of family structures, including the familial relationships that LGBTQ people often form in the face of loss of bonds with parents and other birth family members.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exhibited the ways societal and interpersonal discrimination impacts the economic and health outcomes of marginalized communities such as LGBTQ communities of color. In their response to COVID-19, state lawmakers must actively acknowledge and work to address the systemic barriers which place LGBTQ people of color at greater risk of detrimental economic and health outcomes and move Virginia toward becoming a more inclusive and equitable place to call home.

-- Morgan Ackley, Research Intern and Freddy Mejia, Policy Analyst

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BASIC.

FULL NAME. Andrew Michael Riley NICKNAME. Andy {super selective}, Riley, Snarky, Duck {do not ask}, Six, Falcon 2, Drewski, “Morning” “T-Rex” “DTTAH” {pro: DATA} BIRTHDAY. 4 April ETHNIC GROUP.  Caucasian NATIONALITY.  American (Irish Descent) LANGUAGE.  English, Gaelic, Latin, Russian, select phrases in Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, Swahili, French,  Farsi, Farsi Dari, Arabic, Pushtu  {and can cheat} SEXUAL ORIENTATION. Heterosexual, Heteroromantic {+That one time} RELATIONSHIP STATUS. {Verse dependent} Married/Engaged/Committed CLASS. Upper Middle Class HOME TOWN / AREA. Brooklyn, New York City, New York. CURRENT HOME. {verse dependent} House in Tennessee, Apartment in Brooklyn PROFESSION. {verse dependent} Retired USAF PJ, NYPD Detective, MPD Detective, SHIELD Strike Leader, LAPD SWAT, Professional Alcoholic

PHYSICAL.

HAIR. Coffee Brown (occasionally leaning blonde depending on the sun exposure) EYES. Hazel Green NOSE. short, pointy FACE. Triangle/Heart shaped like his sister LIPS. thin upper, full lower COMPLEXION.  Often Tan because of being outdoorsy, freckled, and sometimes pasty as fuck (Irish) BLEMISHES. Mole on right cheek near his nose, mole just above his right eyebrow, mole above left eyebrow. Missing: One 3/4th Leg. If Found, Please Return To Owner., Crows Feet, Laugh lines. SCARS. –Knife wound, left pec just below shoulder – Right Leg from amputation – Mid back to hips: Surgical scars  – Left knee – Left Bicep Knife Scar TATTOOS. Unit Insignia right bicep, heart ring finger of left hand, Hawaiian Islands right back shoulder, Inside left wrist “SPQR” and Laurel Leafs PIERCINGS. Closed over. HEIGHT. 6ft3 WEIGHT: 195-205 lbs BUILD.  Athletic/Muscular, 18 inch biceps, 45 inch chest, 34 inch waist, 36 inch inseam ALLERGIES.  Rye Bread USUAL HAIR STYLE. High and Tight, spikey, too much hair product USUAL CLOTHING. Jeans, tanker boots, tee shirts and flannel for casual, tailored suits and ties for work

PSYCHOLOGY.

FEAR. Becoming wheel-chair bound, losing a loved one, intimacy ASPIRATION. Growing old and happy: being a good husband, being a good father, finally winning King’s Tourney POSITIVE TRAITS. Loyal af, Courageous, Energetic, Independent, Romantic, Generous, Adventurous NEGATIVE TRAITS. Bitter, Cynical, Possessive, Impatient, Egotistic, Jealous, Impulsive, Anger management issues VICE HABIT.  Professional Alcoholic, Drug-Addict, Adrenaline Junkie FAITH.  Roman Catholic {lapse} GHOSTS? Sure. AFTERLIFE?  Yep REINCARNATION? Unfortunately ALIENS? I’ve met them. Like us, they’re Dicks. POLITICAL ALIGNMENT. Libertarian (Constitutionalist, Classic Conservative) ECONOMIC PREFERENCE. Free Market Capitalism SOCIOPOLITICAL POSITION. Classic Libertarianism EDUCATION LEVEL.  High School Graduate, Associates Degree in Criminal Justice

FAMILY.

FATHER.  Rear-Admiral Brian Riley MOTHER.  Kimberly Gallagher-Riley  SIBLINGS. Elizabeth Riley EXTENDED  FAMILY.  Seren Taylor {Riley}, Noah Taylor {Riley}, Baz Barton, Jay Morgan {Specter}, Aspen Gauthier, Brian Gamble, Darcy Lewis, Julian Brassard NAME MEANING.   Andrew: English form of the Greek name Ανδρεας (Andreas), which was derived from ανδρειος (andreios) "manly, masculine"

Michael: From the Hebrew name מִיכָאֵל (Mikha'el) meaning "who is like God?".

HISTORICAL CONNECTION. None {MCU Canon Character}

FAVOURITES.

BOOKS.  The Prince by Machiavelli, Anything by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Golden Age Scifi, Adventure and Fantasy, Comic Books {mun here. Truth be told, and if I am dead by tomorrow you know who to blame, but Riley actually reads and has an extensive collection of Historical, Cop and Soldier themed trashy romance novels} MUSIC. Blues, Folk, Country, Classic Rock DEITY. The Judeo-Christian God HOLIDAY.  Independence Day, Thanksgiving MONTH. June SEASON.  Summer PLACE.  Free-Fall WEATHER. I will take anything that isn’t snow SOUND.  "I love you”, “Daddy.”  and in certain circumstances, “Andrew” SCENT.  Motor or gun Oil, Leather. Green Growing things, the air right before rain.  TASTE.  Whiskey, Coffee, Rare Steak, Dark Chocolate and Salted Caramel {Turtle Again: He insists that I put this so we’ll just leave it at, the results of Oral Gratification and I am now firing myself as his mun} FEEL. Wound Steel or Nickle Strings under his fingertips. The soft feel of hot skin.  The memory of not being in constant pain. ANIMAL. Dog are nice.  Number.  1330, 7, 2, 3 Colour:  Blue, Sunsets, Her Eyes

EXTRA.

TALENTS. Music, Trouble, Literal Mind Reading, Cooking BAD AT. Relationships, People, Intimacy, Self-control TURN ONS. Intelligence, Long Legs, That Spot on the Back of His Neck TURN OFFS.   His ex Wife HOBBIES. Singing/playing guitar, shade-tree mechanics, fixing things, cooking, Shooting at the Gun Range, Medieval Recreationism, Comic Books, Scifi Conventions TROPES. The Snark Knight, Mr Vice Guy AESTHETICS. Blue Skies. Wings. Hawks. Guns. Guitars, Cigarettes burning in ashtrays and half-drank tumblers of whiskey, 

FC INFO.

MAIN  FC. Karl Urban ALT  FC. none OLDER  FC.   none YOUNGER  FC.     VOICE  CLAIM.  Speaking: Karl Urban, Singing: Ryan Adams

Tagged by: @lilxlionxman Tagging: @multi-mused {the usual suspects}, @morgansmornings, @therealgamble, @thedarcydichotomy, @handcfhealing, @bloodcnmyname, @all-of-the-muses, @fullrangeofemotions, @vamptrampbamf

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RULES.  repost, don’t reblog TAGGED.  @lokitheliesmith TAGGING. @multi-mused, @theregoesthebellhop, @jerseysass, @vamptrampbamf, @tattoosandmusclecars, @morgansmornings @lilxlionxman, @ronmanmob , @pcttydabblcr, @tenderest-contender {Pretty much anyone who wants to, just tag me back!}

BASICS.

{Mostly Main-verse}

FULL NAME. Elikapeka Ailine Riley {anglicized: Elizabeth Irene Riley} NICKNAME. Beth,  Saint Beth, Princess, Piccola {by Z only}, Konachino,  Papapa Kele {Jelly Bean}, Lilo, Turtle Baby/Turtle Girl/Turtle Princess, Constable Visits the Unbeliever With Explanatory Pamphlets BIRTHDAY. 28 June ETHNIC GROUP.  Pacific Islander NATIONALITY.  Hawaiian {American} LANGUAGE.  English {questionable}, Hawaiian, Pidgin, Latin, Japanese, some Russian, some {modern} Greek, Hebrew, French, Irish Gaelic, some German SEXUAL ORIENTATION. demi-sexual, hetero-romantic RELATIONSHIP STATUS. married Zarek CLASS. Upper Middle Class/lower high class  HOME TOWN / AREA. Honolulu Oahu {Hawaii} CURRENT HOME. Apartment in Brooklyn {New York City} PROFESSION. Nurse, Bartender, {SHIELD STRIKE team}

PHYSICAL.

HAIR. Coffee-Brown EYES. Green {hazel} NOSE. small, straight FACE. Round, leaning toward oval shaped, soft features, chiseled, almost square jaw LIPS. Full, soft, almost perfectly cupid-bow shaped COMPLEXION. Tawny/olive BLEMISHES. a tiny smattering of near invisible freckles on her nose and chin SCARS. very deep, puckered scar on right leg {from a shark bite} TATTOOS. turtle bearing the Hawaiian islands and a hibiscus flower on back left hip, {verse dependent; 3 others} PIERCINGS. Three studs on inner curve of right hip, multiple in each ear BUILD.  petite, slim, athletic ALLERGIES. Bees, Penicillin, Latex and Velvet USUAL HAIR STYLE. mid shoulder, intricate voodoo required to get it to be straight and sleek but on it’s own, tends to be unnaturally wavy. USUAL CLOTHING. Her wardrobe looks like a second-hand store exploded. Work clothes consists of various brightly coloured/patterned scrubs or suits, personal wardrobe tends to lean toward long flowing skirts and tops that at best can be described as ‘boho’ or ‘hippie’. 

PSYCHOLOGY.

FEAR. Darkness. Flying. Peanut-Butter. ASPIRATION. To live as gently as she can, to leave everything a little better than she found it. POSITIVE TRAITS. Warm, Friendly, Generous, Open. Forgiving. Gentle. NEGATIVE TRAITS. Naive, Too Trusting, Lack of Verbal Communication. Occasionally childish. Possessive, jealous. Cares too much. Too nice {to the point of spinelessness}. VICE HABIT. Pours everything she has into everyone else, leaving little to nothing for herself. Occasionally smokes {John Verses}, occasionally drinks.  FAITH. Was devoutly Roman Catholic until she met Zarek. Now, she’s not so sure. GHOSTS? She absolutely believes in the restless Dead and other spirits, and frequently converses/consults them. AFTERLIFE? Yes, she believes in an afterlife. REINCARNATION? Like seasons, everyone eventually returns to the great cosmic Wheel and what is gone must return someday. ALIENS? They are people too. POLITICAL ALIGNMENT. Libertarian ECONOMIC PREFERENCE. Rothbardian Austrian Economics SOCIOPOLITICAL POSITION. Anarcho-socialism EDUCATION LEVEL.  University Educated. Master of Life magick, Adept of Forces, Entropy and Spirit magick.

FAMILY.

FATHER. Rear Admiral Brian Charles Riley. {not on speaking terms}, Harvey Specter {hanai-father} MOTHER. Iwalani Haukea Riley-Stern {Not on speaking terms}, Donna Paulsen {hanai-mother} SIBLINGS. Andrew Michael Riley {Deceased}, Martin Victors {hanai-brother}, Sam Wilson {hanai-brother}, Jayden Morgan {hanai-Sister}, Emily Spencer {hanai-sister} EXTENDED  FAMILY.  Sin {hanai-jerk}, she won’t speak of the rest. Except Haephestus {Hanai-Uncle} NAME MEANING.  Elizabeth: Oath of God  Irene: Peace. Named after her Irish grandmothers, her name means “The Oath of God is Peace” Her mother wanted to name her: Alohaekaunei {love alighting here} Kalea {filled with joy}

HISTORICAL CONNECTION.  {insert a little turtle laugh here}

FAVOURITES.

BOOKS.  “The Princess Bride” by William Goldman,  “Night Watch”, “Reaper Man”, “Maskerade” by Terry Pratchett,  “Just So Stories” by Rudyard Kipling, “The Mists of Avalon” by Marion Zimmer Bradley, “Stardust”, “The Graveyard Book”, “Anansi Boys” Neil Gaiman MOVIES. The Princess Bride, Tombstone, Beauty and the Beast {Disney}, Lilo and Stitch {don’t judge}, The Untouchables MUSIC. A little bit of everything DEITY. Zarek HOLIDAY.  Halloween, Yule MONTH.  October SEASON.  Autumn PLACE.  Ka Wela Bay, North Shore, Oahu WEATHER. Rain and fog, cool and crisp SOUND.  The very specific way he says her name, the hushed breath of the ocean kissing shore endlessly. Rain on the roof-top, the cries of a loon SCENT.  His. Coffee. Wood-smoke, sea-spray. The woods/grass after a rain. Leather.  TASTE.  The Salt on his skin, sweet fresh coconut, chai spices, the taste of whiskey in someone else’s mouth. FEEL.  Lives for skin to skin contact ANIMAL. Sharks, panthers, large dogs, wolves, dragons.  NUMBER. 2, 23, 64 COLOR. Purple

EXTRA.

TALENTS. Surfing, Finding Trouble, Magick BAD AT. Cooking, lying, relationships, most things. TURN ONS. Hand wrapped securely around her throat, deep growls pitched low at her ear. Biting. The rake of nails down her back, the bruises of his hands painting her skin. The way he shoves her against the wall, how he can move her as he pleases. Dancing cheek to cheek, thigh to thigh. Physically fighting with him. TURN OFFS.  Unnecessary cruelty, being told she’s ‘like all the others’.  HOBBIES. Surfing, knitting, gardening, reading, old movies, karaoke TROPES. A little Earth Mother, A little Granola Girl. A Little Sea Witch. A little Ingenue. Beth could fit in a ridiculous number of tropes but never quite fully. AESTHETICS. A following sea. Perfectly waxed board. Tiny hands covered in blood and earth. The Tree of Life half dark and half light. Herbs and Tarot Cards. Sea shells. Green growing things.

FC INFO.

MAIN  FC. Kristin Kreuk ALT  FC. None {maybe Phoebe Tonkins....?} OLDER  FC.   None YOUNGER  FC. Aubrey Anderson-Emmons VOICE  CLAIM.  Kristin Kreuk {speaking} Kate Rusby {singing}

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VERY LONG CHARACTER SURVEY.

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BASICS.

FULL NAME: nicky wilde. NICKNAME/S: technically “nicky” started as a nickname. AGE: 24. BIRTHDAY: october 3rd. ETHNIC GROUP: white. NATIONALITY: american, but started off as belarusian and polish. LANGUAGE/S: english, russian, polish, ASL, bits and pieces of spanish (but their accent is awful). SEXUAL ORIENTATION: pansexual. ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: panromantic. RELATIONSHIP STATUS: depends on the verse; either single or dating florence morgan. CLASS: lower class. HOMETOWN / AREA: nicky grew up in several different cities in several different countries before their family eventually settled in san jose. CURRENT HOME: nicky is homeless, so they mostly travel from place to place. PROFESSION: unemployed. makes money by busking.

PHYSICAL.

HAIR:  sandy brown when they were a child, but grew darker as they got older. now it’s dark brown/black. they also used to have their hair cut short, but now it’s just past their shoulders, with straight-across bangs. EYES: very pale blue-grey. NOSE: button nose. small and cute. FACE: a round face that makes them look younger than they are. full cheeks. LIPS: full pink lips with a less-defined cupid’s bow. they usually wear lipstick of some sort. COMPLEXION: pale as heck. they don’t really tan or even freckle, they just burn. BLEMISHES: occasional pimples since they don’t bathe as often as they should due to homelessness. some splotchy spots here and there, especially in summer. i’m sure they’ve got a few acne scars as well. SCARS: outside of small nicks, they only have one noticeable scar; a bullet scar on their stomach, which looks like a straight line up from their belly button. they were shot in the chest and it traveled down to their abdomen. it’s highly noticeable when they're shirtless or wearing a translucent fabric. TATTOOS: none. HEIGHT: 5′6″. WEIGHT: less than average definitely. BUILD: skinny, lanky, somehow both bony and noodle-y. ALLERGIES: none. USUAL HAIRSTYLE: shortest is a bob cut just at the jawline, longest has been just past their shoulder blades. straight and dark. USUAL EXPRESSION: neutral. nicky has learned to smile more, but their usual face is definitely a neutral one, even when they’re enjoying themself. USUAL CLOTHING: nicky’s fashion sense ranges from goth to oddball, but their usual outfits look something like this. they lean more toward emo/goth most of the time, with fishnets or leggings, short shorts or tight pants (to show off their legs). they used to be more fond of crop tops but that isn’t so much the case anymore. they also usually wear padded bras to give the illusion of having breasts, and almost always tuck.

PSYCHOLOGY.

FEAR/S: physical pain, being ignored or forgotten about, death, losing their sister. ASPIRATION/S: to be famous, and wealthy enough to be able to give money to the people they love who need it. mostly the fame though. they feel like they were meant to be famous. POSITIVE TRAITS: easy-going, spontaneous, fun, humorous, considerate, kind, musically gifted, quick learner. NEGATIVE TRAITS: selfish in many respects, impulsive, lazy, unmotivated, detached, moocher. MBTI: ENFP according to the test. ZODIAC: libra. TEMPERAMENT: sanguine with phlegmatic leanings. SOUL TYPE/S: tie between “creator” and “performer.” ANIMAL: quiz says ‘mouse’ but that’s inaccurate as hell to me. i always compare nicky to a raccoon. VICE/S: drugs (weed, xanax), alcohol, sex FAITH: probably on the agnostic side of atheism. they’re pretty sure there’s nothing but they’re not 100% certain on that. GHOSTS? yes. AFTERLIFE? only by way of ghosts. they don’t believe in heaven. REINCARNATION? no. ALIENS? probably. POLITICAL ALIGNMENT: nicky is fairly liberal but never votes or anything, so they don’t have much of a voice. plus they’re a queer transgender homeless person so they wouldn’t much be listened to anyway. ECONOMIC PREFERENCE: they’d love to be filthy rich lmao. they wanna be rock star barbie. SOCIOPOLITICAL POSITION: they’re simultaneously liberal as heck but also a slave to consumerist culture. EDUCATION LEVEL: they graduated high school with average grades and attended two years of community college before dropping out. while nicky is smart, they don’t apply it to anything that would be considered meaningful in modern america.

FAMILY.

FATHER: cyril borysko. (estranged.) MOTHER: inga borysko. (estranged.) SIBLING/S: zaria borysko (older sister). EXTENDED FAMILY: none that they know of. they probably have half-siblings out there somewhere. NAME MEANING/S: their dead name, “nikolai,” is a variant of the name nicholas, which means victory of the people. HISTORICAL CONNECTION: none. mom just liked the name.

FAVORITES.

BOOK: the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde. (guess where they got their chosen surname from.) 5 SONGS:  they don’t really have favorite songs, but some favorite artists are joan jett, the pixies, the cure, siouxsie & the banshees, and nirvana. DEITY: aphrodite. MONTH: june. SEASON: summer. PLACE: parks. WEATHER: sunny, warm. SOUND/S: guitar strings, birds chirping, cat meows, kids playing. SCENT/S: fresh bakery bread early in the morning, petrichor, coffee. TASTE/S: keebler sandwich crackers, oreos, trail mix, peanuts, coke, margaritas, toothpaste. FEEL/S: a real shower, freshly brushed teeth, brushing/braiding hair, swimming. ANIMAL/S: cats, dogs, birds. NUMBER: n/a COLOR: black, purple.

EXTRA.

TALENTS: guitar, singing, languages, pick-pocketing, sleight of hand. BAD AT: math, confrontation, socializing like a normal person, drawing, common sense, talking about feelings in a serious manner. TURN-ONS: moaning, pet names, whispering, compliments, praise, toned muscles, confidence, tall men, small women TURN-OFFS: degradation, humiliation, pain of any kind HOBBIES: writing/performing music, learning bizarre random facts TROPES: Book Dumb; Perishing Alt Rock Voice; Attention Wh*re; Chaotic Stupid; Functional Addict; The Unfavorite; The Drifter; Hidden Depths AESTHETIC TAGS: idk what this means

FC INFO.

MAIN FC/S: ksenia solo. ALT FC/S: my animated fc is currently riruka dokugamine from bleach. OLDER FC/S: n/a. YOUNGER FC/S: joel courtney in super 8 (child); kathryn prescott in finding carter (teen) VOICE CLAIM/S: chloe arden (speaking); brian molko (singing). GENDERBENT FC/S: nicky is nonbinary :/

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BASICS.

FULL  NAME :   Lance Mateo McClain NICKNAME :   Sir Lancelot ;D  AGE :  19 BIRTHDAY :   June 7th ETHNIC  GROUP :  Cuban NATIONALITY :   Cuban-American LANGUAGE / S : English, Spanish SEXUAL  ORIENTATION :  pansexual ROMANTIC  ORIENTATION :  biromantic RELATIONSHIP  STATUS :   taken?? probably?? HOME  TOWN / AREA :  Cardenas, Cuba CURRENT  HOME :   Castle of Lions PROFESSION :  Blue Paladin, seventh wheel

PHYSICAL.

HAIR: Dark brown that used to be cropped close above his ears, forehead, and neatly trimmed in the back, though now growing out to almost Keith levels of embarrassing EYES :  Blue (like our planet from far far away) FACE :  Chin could cut bread it’s so sharp LIPS :   Thin but always well moisturized and exfoliated each night with a homemade scrub he’s concocted using elements from various planets they’ve visited. The mask doesn’t look pretty, but he sure looks pretty afterwards. COMPLEXION :  A deep tan that persists despite no natural sunlight on the castle to facilitate proper absorption of Vitamin D, constantly clear skin is due to the same mask components he uses on his lips-- applied each night for maximum benefits. BLEMISHES :  Light acne scarring on his chin from when he was young and foolish SCARS : A series of light nicks littering his back that pale in comparison to his deeper complextion, recieved from crystal shrapnel when protecting Coran in the control room. Starburst scar on his abdomen from being shot straight through. Various other scratches from paladin duty, but nothing severe. TATTOOS :  N/A HEIGHT :   5′11″ WEIGHT :   138 lbs. BUILD :  Tall and lanky for his age, he has a swimmer’s build and impressive lean muscle in his arms and legs though not particularly defined FEATURES :  Cute AF. ALLERGIES :   Bees USUAL  HAIR  STYLE : Combed down after ridiculous bedhead  USUAL  FACE  LOOK :   Better than Keith USUAL  CLOTHING :  The over sized olive military jacket he had grabbed when going out the night before rescuing/stealing Shiro from the garrison, blue and grey baseball tee, jeans, and his favorite pair of sneakers

PSYCHOLOGY.

FEAR / S :   Never returning to Earth, losing his friends and makeshift family, being useless and in extension, a burden to Voltron, returning to the healing pods/being cryogenically frozen again ASPIRATION / S :   Return home, make it out alive, feel like an asset to the team, collect some cool space rocks to show his siblings POSITIVE  TRAITS :   Outgoing | Compassionate | Adaptable NEGATIVE  TRAITS :   Insecure | Self-sacrificing | Argumentative MBTI :   Campaigner (ENFP-T) ZODIAC :   Gemini TEMPEREMENT :   Sanguine SOUL  TYPE / S :   Performer ANIMALS :   swan VICE  HABIT / S :   Biting his nails, picking at his nails, running his hands through his hair repeatedly  FAITH :  Lapsed Catholic GHOSTS ? :  There are aliens, why the hell not ghosts? AFTERLIFE ? :   His Abuela is definitely in heaven REINCARNATION ? :   doesn’t believe ALIENS ? :   He’d be pretty stupid to say 'no’ to this one POLITICAL  ALIGNMENT :  Pro Defenders of the Universe EDUCATION  LEVEL :    Close to graduating from Galaxy Garrison, though a lower class ranking overall in the fighter class program due to his piloting skills (or lack thereof when it came to simulations. Good thing this isn’t a simulation.)

FAMILY.

FATHER :    Lance inherited his eyes from his father.. An office worker that would come home from work and swing Lance and his siblings around in a big hug. Deceased after a car accident on his way home from work.  MOTHER :    Xiomara, a robust Cuban woman with a warm smile and warmer heart. A struggling single mother that wants the best for all of her kids, even if that means nagging on them to do their best when they just want to lay there (*cough*Lance*cough*). Nothing will ever beat her hugs or her homemade meals. SIBLINGS :   Christina, older sister. Michael, older brother. Samuel, younger step-brother. Rosa, younger step-sister. EXTENDED  FAMILY :   Jane, niece. Rogelio, grandfather. NAME  MEANING / S :    Lance; exactly what it sounds like. A lance. Mateo; Gift of God. McClain; son of Saint John. HISTORICAL  CONNECTION ? :   n/a.

FAVORITES.

BOOK :  Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan MOVIE :   Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) and Pacific Rim (2013) (He’s kind of living the mech dream right now) 5  SONGS : Whistle by Flo Rida, Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen, Death of a Bachelor by Panic! At the Disco, Bubblegum Bitch by Marina and the Diamonds, Unsteady by X Ambassadors DEITY :   None HOLIDAY :   Christmas MONTH :   July SEASON :   Summer PLACE :    Veradero beach, Cuba. Too many late night bonfires and swimming under the stars with friends and family for it not to have a special place in his heart. WEATHER :   Warm, sunny, not a cloud in the sky.  SOUND :   Waves crashing against the shore during a storm SCENT / S :   Fresh pizza, his mom’s floral perfume, the castle shampoo TASTE / S :    Sea salt on his lips, key lime pie, chocolate chip cookies FEEL / S : �� Cool air just before a storm that has a charge running across his skin, a soft blanket wrapped around his shoulders, Keith’s hand in his  ANIMAL / S :    dolphins NUMBER :  35, his two lucky numbers-- 3 and 5 combined. It’s extra lucky. COLORS :   Light blue like the sky on a clear day, pastel yellow like his baby blanket back home

EXTRA.

TALENTS :  Being better than Keith, Adapting plans to fit new circumstances, quick wit, charming, observant, a good shot and steady hand, being expendable BAD  AT :  Realizing his importance, Losing, piloting in a simulation TURN  ONS :   Biting, scratching, praise, hair pulling TURN  OFFS :   Humiliation HOBBIES :    Doodling on paper scraps, helping Coran with castle upkeep, tapping out music while bothering Hunk or Pidge, staring at Keith QUOTES :     “You know why they call me the tailor? Because of how I... Thread the needle.” ... “I don’t need pants, I’m a mermaid.”

MUN QUESTIONS.

Q1 :   if  you  could  write  your  character  your  way  in  their  own  movie ,   what  would  it  be  called ,  what  style  would  it  be  filmed  in ,  and  what  would  it  be  about ?           A1 :   While I’m quite sure Lance would love to have his own James Bond-esque thriller where he gets the girl, I’d rather have him in a coming of age story where he learns to grow into himself and his insecurities. As well as maybe, instead of getting the girl, he gets the guy. Wink wink.  Q2 :   what  would  their  soundtrack / score  sound  like ?           A2 :   Some soothing instrumental with cool drum solos Q3 :   why  did  you  start  writing  this  character ?           A3 :   I’m used to writing ‘mom’ characters (see: Starfire (DC), Mitsuru (Persona4), a handful of others) but wanted to try something else out when I saw Morgan and Grey’s characterization. I wanted to introduce my own portrayal of Lance since I loved him so much. Although Keith used to be my favorite character, Lance has quickly wormed his way to first place. Lance is also the most relateable character for me. Q4 :   what  first  attracted  you  to  this  character ?           A4 :   His puns and overall dorkiness, as well as fandom represented adoration for a certain mullet. Q5 :   describe  the  biggest  thing  you  dislike  about  your  muse.           A5 :   the thought of disliking anything about Lance is horrifying. though in canon, the way they treat him like he’s stupid when he’s SO smart and deserves so much more Q6 :   what  do  you  have  in  common  with  your  muse ?           A6 :   We can both be self-sacrificing, dorks, and if there is ever a chance to use a bad joke or pun I am on it. Q7 :   how  does  your  muse  feel  about  you ?           A7 :  "Why are you like this” @ me  Q8 :   what  characters  does  your  muse  have  interesting  interactions  with ?         A8 :    Everyone. Seriously, each thread has been great. @hologramandahardplace hmu sometime though Q9 :   what  gives  you  inspiration  to  write  your  muse ?         A9 :   Talking about AUs or headcanons, primarily. Or looking at gorgeous fanart. That helps too. Q10 :   how  long  did  this  take  you  to  complete ?           A10 :    TOO LONG. 4 hours?? Give or take?

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June 21, 2020

My weekly review of thoughts and goings-on. Topics include BP’s energy data, Apollo Projects, the demographic transition, and policing in Hillsboro.

New Energy Data from BP

Every June, BP releases some high level energy statistics from the prior year. This year’s data set came out a few days ago, and I’ve taken a quick glance over.

A key observation is that world primary energy growth in 2019 was about 1.3%, in contrast to the ~1.8% average growth from 2009 to 2019. Together with the IEA’s World Energy Investment report, we start to see some evidence of a modest global slowdown even before COVID hit.

Oil, natural gas, and coal were up 0.8%, up 2.0%, and down 0.6% respectively. Nuclear is up 3.1% but still about 4% off the peak generation set in 2004. Hydropower is up 0.9%, extending a long term trend of gradual increase. Non-hydro renewables are up 12.2%, the largest absolute year over year gain (albeit just barely) in the dataset. All in all, low carbon energy sources* accounted for 55% of total primary energy gain, and fossil fuels accounted for 45%.

There is some controversy around the primary energy metric. It is meant to allow a direct comparison between coal, gas, oil, and nuclear energy sources, whether they are used for power, transportation fuel, or heat, by comparing on the basis of heat released upon combustion or fission. But for non-thermal sources, this metric doesn’t make sense, and different institutions have different ways of estimating the primary energy content of such sources. In particular, it may be that the numbers for renewables are smaller than they should be, relative to their contribution to the economy. This may be, but it doesn’t change the basic picture.

Scenarios consistent with the Paris Agreement call for a phaseout of fossil fuel usage around midcentury. That’s 30 years from now and we haven’t even halted the growth yet. At current rates, with no increase in overall primary energy demand, it will take about 200-300 years for renewables to take over the energy system. I’ve predicted before that solar and wind might be near the inflection point of their S curves, a prediction that I now think was too pessimistic, but I also don’t the kind of exponential growth we saw in the heady days of the late 2000s and early 2010s is a realistic expectation.

This year BP also put all the raw data in a CSV file. I don’t know if they did it before, but it is much appreciated.

* Including biofuels. It is questionable whether they should be classified as low carbon.

Apollo Projects

Sam Altman and his brothers are starting up a new investment project, aimed at what they describe as moonshot projects and clearly alluding to the Apollo Project.

Their list of project examples is quite the grab bag: “Rapid response vaccines, non-carbon energy, solar geoengineering, VR/AR, biological manufacturing, new education formats, new medicines, affordable housing, and charter countries.”

This also comes not too long after the Marc Andreesson IT’S TIME TO BUILD essay and may represent at attempt to transcend the kind of small bore thinking that has (perceived to have) taken over Silicon Valley and American institutions at large.

Now, I’m for pursuing ambitious projects as much as anyone, but ambition has to be rooted in a sense of what real socio/economic needs are or else it is just a shot in the dark. What the Altmans understand those needs to be is, to me at least, rather opaque.

Understanding the Demographic Transition

I have written on-and-off over the years about the question of population and birth rates. I have more or less made the pronatalist case that I can based on my understanding of the role that population plays in economic growth. But without a better understanding of what governs reproduction decisions, my understanding of the issue is stuck at a sub-useful level. This week I made some effort to dive into the academic literature on demographic trends.

The survey of Zaida and Morgan is not a bad place to start. They introduce what is a fairly standard story: industrialization has both decreased the death rate and increase the opportunity cost of having children. This process come to be called the Demographic Transition, or the First Demographic Transition to distinguish it from what may be a distinct ongoing Second Demographic Transition. The SDT theory pushes back against the purely economic explanations of the FDT theory and proposes that value changes are at work: a shift from “king child” to “king couple” and a move up the Maslowian hierarchy to a postmaterialist value system.

The survey notes several major critiques of SDT. First, the empirical link between fertility changes and ideational changes is not well established. They cite some evidence of a “social contagion” at work in fertility changes. SDT doesn’t account well for inter- and intra-country variations. There are also inconsistent links between fertility changes and other demographic/social changes predicted by SDT. The broader philosophical critique of SDT is that, like modernization of secularization theory, it is a unilinear theory of history that holds the most postmodern European countries as the natural destination of historical evolution.

Zaida and Morgan touch on some alternate theories to SDT: that globalization and evolving gender roles are driving contemporary fertility changes, but note that those theories have problems as well.

In 2012, Oded Galor reviewed several hypothesis on drivers of falling birth rates. Galor is best known for his Unified Growth Theory model, which holds that technological change has increased the educational cost of children, and parents make a rational quality/quantity tradeoff by having fewer children and educating each one better. Naturally, Galor gives his UGT hypothesis the most credence in his review. He also gives some evidence that the declining gender gap plays a role, in that it increases the opportunity cost of a mother’s childrearing time. Galor argues against the Beckerian hypothesis--that rising wages in general depress fertility--and also argues against declining childhood mortality and old age pensions as explanations.

UGT is an interesting idea that I would like to take a better look at. It does strike me as perhaps being too much of a “theory of everything”, and it attempts to explain family decisions with an economic model without accounting for the role of social norms. I would have a hard time accepting any explanation that does not have at least some significant role for social norms. For what it’s worth, this recent survey of Madsen and Strulik provides some fresh empirical evidence for education as a driver of falling birth rates.

I must say, having read a lot of academic writing over the years, that Galor’s is exceptionally good. He has a clear and engaging style, and he is able to present the mathematics with full rigor but without burying the reader with it.

To go in the opposite direction, this 2005 study of Newson et al. attempts to explain falling birth rates as a process of cultural evolution. Industrialization generally enhances the importance of nonkin social contacts relative to kin contacts, and nonkin contacts are more likely to deliver antinatalist messages than kin contacts. The argument is an interesting one and they give a fair amount of evidence, though I would characterize their case as circumstantial rather than rigorous. The study is old enough that there should be plenty of new evidence for the hypothesis by now, and that would be something to take a look at later.

Finally, there is this review from earlier this year by Lesthaeghe, who is one of the pioneers of SDT back in the ‘80s but has walked the claims back a bit. The paper is rather jargon-heavy and not very layperson-friendly, but he offers some important insights. Armed with new data, he debunks the postponement hypothesis: that falling birth rates from the 1990s were the result of later families, not smaller families, and so should recover. He also argues against the idea that, at a certain level of development, we should expect fertility to naturally recover. This hypothesis is based on what he calls the “reading history sideways” fallacy, which is to look at all countries at a snapshot in time and assume that what wealthier countries look like today is what poorer countries will look like tomorrow. He forecasts that subreplacement fertility in wealthier countries will persist at least through the 2020s.

As a general observation, most of my understanding of academic demography has come from energy and environmental work. My brief effort this week to learn the field more directly has revealed that it is a richer field, with more diversity of thought, than I had realized, and it makes me hungry to read some more. By contrast, in the environmental world there is a caricatured, in some cases outdated, understanding of demography. I would have to suspect that since environmentalism has always carried an antinatalist orientation, it has been happy to selectively draw concepts from demography that support a triumphalist population peak-and-decline narrative (when not going down the Malthusian catastrophe rabbit hole). In reality, demography as a field shows diversity in ideology (pro- or anti-natalist), forecasts, and understanding of mechanisms behind the forecasts.

Policing in Hillsboro

This week, the Hillsboro City Council held an information session with Jim Coleman, the chief of police, and some other officers to discuss a wide range of issues around policing. Given current public concern, it was a long and intense conversation. I’m glad I listened.

With a few weeks having now elapsed since the George Floyd killing, I’ve had some time to think it over, have some conversations, and read some material from a range of viewpoints. Policing is important, but it’s never been an issue I’ve paid much attention to or been interested in and definitely not one that I understand well.

If I were to get more engaged on the topic--which, to be clear, I am not planning on--the first thing I would do is forget what I think I know and take some time to listen empathetically. The world doesn’t need another 23 point plan.

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Best Dick Jokes Through History – Why Sexual Comedy About Men Is Important – Esquire.com

Blake Griffin landed a dick joke about Caitlyn Jenner at the Comedy Central Roast of Alex Baldwin, which aired last weekend. “Caitlyn completed her gender reassignment in 2017, finally confirming that no one in that family wants a white dick,” he said to roars of laughter. Was the joke offensive? Racist? Hilarious? All of the above? For her part, Jenner took the dick joke in stride. “Caitlyn was down for it,” one of the writers of the roast said. “She was like, ‘Well, you know, I’m gonna hit hard. I want them to hit me hard.’ And so we did.”

Dick jokes have existed throughout history in nearly every culture known to man, from the greatest literature of all time—Shakespeare and James Joyce—to ancient graffiti. “Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!” some anonymous guy scrawled on the wall of a bar in the Roman city of Pompeii around 2,000 years ago. They have been staples of comedy for millennia for a reason: They’re nearly universally appealing.

“Whether you’re rich or poor or black or white, everyone laughs at a dick joke,” says comedian Aaron Berg, who hosts a recurring show at The Stand in New York City. (Berg also hosted a somewhat controversial, entirely satirical show called White Guys Matter that addressed some aspects of white male inadequacy.)

One comedian has elevated dick jokes to poetry, launching them into the realm of high art: Jacqueline Novak, whose one-woman off-Broadway show about blow jobs, Get on Your Knees, manages to make the dick joke both hilarious and high brow. She’s not the first woman to tell a dick joke, nor will she be the last, but she is perhaps the only one to devote a show almost entirely to the penis (with a few minutes sidetracking to ghosts) and be feted by The New York Times for doing so.

Novak, who has been called a “deeply philosophical urologist,” may represent a tipping point in dick jokes, because her show is finally allowing people to see the wisdom (yes, wisdom) in penis humor.

“I don’t even think of myself as like, interested in telling penis jokes. I certainly wouldn’t sit down and go, I’d love to do a show about penises,” Novak says. “I think it’s more like an investigation of my heterosexuality. Does [being heterosexual] mean I love the penis? I’m interested in the language that I’ve been expected to use or accept as legitimate about the penis. Here’s all the reasons that that’s ridiculous.”

Novak’s show is replete with riffs on our “ridiculous” penis language, from the fact that we say the penis is “rock hard”—”No geologist would ever say, this quartz is penis hard“—to the idea that the penis penetrates a woman—”You penetrate me? Fine, but I ate you, motherfucker! I chewed you up! Spit you out, and you loved every goddamn second of it.” In some ways, Novak is the perfect teller of the 21st century dick joke, not only because she is chronicling our hangups about the penis, but also because without a penis of her own, perhaps she is able to see the dick more clearly for what it is, in all its ridiculousness and beauty.

“You penetrate me? Fine, but I ate you, motherfucker! I chewed you up!”

But for the most part, phallic culture remains incoherent. Men are pilloried for exposing their dicks, while Euphoria is celebrated for its 30-penis episode; dick pics are critiqued like Picassos or seen as a public menace; judging a man by the size of his penis is perfectly acceptable or grossly objectifying; porn covers every inch of the internet, yet Facebook won’t accept ads for dildos. Dick jokes are still looked down on as cheap—to be fair, some of them are blatantly bad—but some comics say that isn’t always fair.

“Dick jokes, if you craft something amazing out of them, could be the funniest thing someone’s ever heard. And funny in a way that like, opens your mind up even,” says comedian Sean Patton. “That’s the most important kind of comedy, where you laugh at something to the point where you’re now a little more accepting of it. And that can range from anything to other people’s sexual orientation to accepting your own mental illness.” Patton’s own extended dick joke, “Cumin” on Comedy Central’s This Is Not Happening, has been viewed over 2 million times on YouTube.

Jacqueline Novak performs at the 2019 Clusterfest in June.

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Novak uses the blow job to critique cultural expectations of masculinity and the pressure women feel to become skilled at sexually pleasing men. “The teeth shaming starts early, of course,” she says in her show. “If you have your full set of teeth…don’t go into a room where a penis is. It’s not safe for him. Why would you put him at risk?”

Patton likens the dick joke to a “Trojan horse” of comedy. “You make them laugh hard at dick jokes, now they’re listening,” he says. “Then you can throw in something a little more meaningful, and they’re on board.”

Not that all dick jokes need to be intellectual to be taken seriously. The song “D*** in a Box” by The Lonely Island, featuring Justin Timberlake, won an Emmy. It turns out the concept wasn’t exactly new. “Decades before The Lonely Island, B.S. Pully was doing that in the ’40s and ’50s,” comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff says. “Pully would be holding a cigar box at his groin, walking down the aisle. [He would] start a show saying, ‘Cigar, would you like a cigar?’ Then he would lift up the lid, and there was a hole cut in there, and his dick was hanging out. The audience would go crazy.”

Dick jokes continue to thrive off audience reactions, according to several comedians I talked to. Bonnie McFarlane, who is best known for her appearance on Last Comic Standing and her Netflix documentary Women Aren’t Funny, began telling dick jokes when she started out in 1995. “You tell dick jokes because it’s a very male audience, so that’s what they want to hear about,” she says. “It’s been a thing since comedy started. People can really kill if they’re just doing dick jokes.” But there is a double standard, she says, when female comics are made fun of “for talking about their vaginas too much.”

That Novak, a female comic, is revolutionizing the dick joke makes sense, considering that historically, “the vanguard for so-called dick jokes and sexual material comes first and foremost from women rather than men,” Nesteroff says. He points to female comics Rusty Warren, Belle Barth, Pearl Williams, and LaWanda Page as “probably the four quote-unquote ‘dirtiest’ comedians of the ’50s and ’60s, more so than Lenny Bruce, more so than Redd Foxx.”

LaWanda Page performs for The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast in 1978.

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He also says African Americans pushed dick jokes further than any other ethnicity. African-American comedian Page’s albums from the 1970s were rich with dick jokes, referencing “the size of the man, the endurance of the man,” Nesteroff says. As Page recites in her 1973 comedy album Pipe Layin’ Dan: “Husband, dear husband, now don’t be a fool/you’ve worked on the night shift ’til you’ve ruined your tool/you’d better go hungry the rest of your life/than to bring home a pecker so soft to your wife.”

“LaWanda [told] dick jokes for the same reasons a lot of black comics do, because they had to come up in the chitlin circuit, which is basically comedy clubs or bars or places where only black audiences mainly go,” says comedian Harris Stanton, who has toured with Tracy Morgan. “When I started comedy [in 1999] I started in the chitlin circuit,” he continues. “Urban comedy became this big explosion in the United States. A lot of the young black comics couldn’t get into a lot of mainstream clubs, so they would have to perform wherever they could, and dick jokes were welcome to those places.”

African Americans were pioneers of the dick joke, but they definitely weren’t the only ethnic group telling them. Three of the other female sex-joke pioneers Nesteroff mentioned were Jewish. Pearl Williams was known for roasting overweight men when they entered the comedy club by asking, “How long has it been since you’ve seen your dick?” Lenny Bruce, one of the most famous Jewish comedians, was arrested for saying schmuck on stage in 1962. Seven years later, another famous American Jew, Philip Roth, published Portnoy’s Complaint, which is essentially a 274-page dick joke, or so some claim.

“How long has it been since you’ve seen your dick?”

“I probably owe a debt to Philip Roth that I’m not even fully aware of,” says Novak, who is Jewish. She references him directly in her show, joking, “I went off to college feeling good. It’s a Catholic-ish college. Lots of virgin boys scurrying around, scrambling for sexual experience at parties. Not me. I’m a Jew and I did the coursework in high school, so I felt like a Philip Roth figure. A Jewish pervert ready to teach.”

Jewish male comics may be drawn to dick jokes, according to Berg, who is Jewish, because, “the fact that our penises were intruded upon at a very young age probably gives us a fixation on it and makes us want to talk about it more.”

Dr. Jeremy Dauber, the Atran professor of Yiddish language, literature, and culture at Columbia University and author of Jewish Comedy, traces Jewish dick jokes all the way back to the Bible. The earliest case of laughter in Jewish tradition is Sarah’s laughter when she’s told that her 100-year-old husband Abraham will give her a child. It is “a laughter about male impotence,” Dauber says.

But comedians aren’t just laughing at penises anymore. Novak is going in the opposite direction. “I’m trying to restore [the penis] to true dignity.” Will her intellectual blow job jokes allow the dick joke to be taken more seriously? Will future comedians have to deal with the flack that Patton still gets in his reviews?

“Even like positive reviews, sometimes they’ll still point out there’s also a lot of cock, cock cock,” he says. “Why do you have to make sure everyone knows that you thought some of the subject matter was lowbrow?” He thinks reviewers roll their eyes at his dick talk because “everyone constantly is terrified that those around them don’t think that they’re that smart.”

Comedy is one of the only art forms that allows us to talk about male genitalia so openly and democratically. Whatever form the dick joke takes, from idiotic to intellectual, from poetry to prop comedy, as long as it gets a laugh, it should be celebrated. And there’s no better way to diffuse the angst surrounding the modern-day penis than a well-crafted dick joke. The more we laugh about penises (and not just at them), the happier the world might be.

Hallie Lieberman Hallie Lieberman is a sex historian and journalist, and the author of “Buzz: A Stimulating History of the Sex Toy.”  

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Dispatch from The Hague: If the Trumps are serious about economic equity, ‘let women flourish’

On May 14, I opened an email titled “An invitation to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2019 June 3-5th in The Hague” and my first thought was “How do I figure out if this is a scam?”

What made it initially so hard to believe was that I was getting invited just before the event without any prior knowledge of the event, let alone submitting an application. Then there was the fact that they were offering to cover my hotel, transport, food and conference ticket. All they wanted from me was to show up and meet with investors who focus on impact companies. Hardly a tough sell for someone like me, a startup founder in the beginning of raising a new round of funding.

I later learned that this was the 10th year of GES and that it was no small endeavor, as it’s co-hosted this year by the United States’ and the Netherlands’ governments and convenes some 2,000 entrepreneurs, investors, private sector partners and policymakers from around the world. The organizers had been reaching out to women founders to fix their (at the time) imbalanced attendee gender ratio, which is why I was invited.

I realize the invite to GES sounds like most entrepreneur’s dream come true. And in many ways, it is — I was being chosen without even having to apply — something I later realized thousands of people did as a way of getting into the conference — to embark on a trip filled with lunch at the American ambassador’s mansion, a beach party with lobster and Heineken (when in Rome), and conference networking sessions in lush meeting areas with orchids and velvet throw pillows scattered about. Plus, all the free lattes you can drink.

But there was something looming that did not sit right.

Morgan Berman at GES 2019. (Courtesy photo)

Before I get to that, it is important to understand the purpose of the GES. This conference was not just a general startup event, albeit on a grand international scale. It’s specific focus is to connect entrepreneurs and investors who are tackling four of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): water, energy, connectivity (this is the one my company, MilkCrate, fits into because of our work building mobile apps for nonprofit programs and government initiatives) and food/agriculture.

In addition to the SDGs, there were three overarching themes, one of which was “women empowerment.” Throughout the event, the organizers expressed a desire to show that the co-host countries of the U.S. and the Netherlands were aware of the inequities women face in entrepreneurship, and had an earnest desire to do something about it.

I was cautiously optimistic; they had reached out to me and wanted us to meet investors and provide a growth opportunity for our businesses. They had even asked me to do a press briefing about our MilkCrate’s new contract with the City of Philadelphia to build an app that pays people to pick up trash. Opportunity upon opportunity seemed to be given to me.

The big “but” that I felt — and I was not alone in my concern — was the speaker lineup and how it might contradict the pro-sustainability and pro-woman message. After all, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao was one of the opening headline speakers. In January 2015, she resigned from the board of Bloomberg Philanthropies because of its plans to significantly increase support for the Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” initiative — not exactly the actions of someone in line with SDGs. Then there are her numerous ethically compromised activities around family finances and campaigning related to her father’s China-backed business and her husband’s election fundraising activities.

I’ve already written a bit about how I wish I wasn’t referred to as a “Female Entrepreneur.” I don’t mean I wish I was a man, or that I wish I had access to the other 98% of funding that men get, although I do want that number to change for myself and all the other women founders struggling to fundraise. What I do mean is I wish my gender wasn’t something worth talking about in the context of my job. But we humans keep creating a world where that matters. And thankfully, this conference is making a point of highlighting both countries’ efforts to correct these major imbalances that exist around the world — something I truly deeply applaud and appreciate.

Unfortunately, Ivanka Trump’s role and words at the event have stuck with me the most.

Morgan Berman (L) with other GES 2019 attendees. (Courtesy photo)

She was presented as the closing act, the representative of women entrepreneurs and our champion. She was there in part as the face of the new Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative, a cross-agency push to address women’s economic inequity worldwide in partnership with agencies like the U.S. Department of State and the Peace Corps. But it was whispered that this was a strategic swap to avoid having her father attend and cause even more criticism from the international delegates who by and large do not approve of our president or have confidence in his ability to lead the world’s most influential country.

In her opening remarks, Ivanka described the new initiative as the first effort by a U.S. administration to create a plan to support women entrepreneurs in the developing world, with goals to support 50 million women by 2025 with an initial $50 million of funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development. However, NPR reported that last year the Trump administration proposed a 35% cut for global gender-equality programs (which was thankfully blocked by Congress).

These are not consistent messages and bring into question the authenticity and intentions behind this initiative and something that challenges her suitability to represent women entrepreneurs or pro-women causes at all, let alone at such a high profile event. Then, of course, there’s her own business’ unethical practices — similar to Elaine Chao’s — of using her unelected political position to promote her own personal financial interests in her now-defunct business.

At GES 2019. (Courtesy photo)

In the interest of not coming off as incapable of seeing the good that people can do alongside doing very bad things, I will give credit where it is due.

At the summit, there was an invite-only “Power Lunch” for some of the women entrepreneurs. At my table, we were asked to share a barrier we are facing, and I shared that my fiancé and I want to start a family soon after our wedding. This prospect has me filled with excitement and anxiety about how as a startup founder marrying another startup person — where will we find the time, money, and emotional space to take on this new venture of a baby? I also feared what my current and future investors would think or do if I shared my intention to start a family soon.

Thankfully, at least one investor (our largest, actually) broached the subject with me a few weeks ago at lunch. I asked him what he thought about it and he warmly replied  “Do what you want!” and then offered his summer home for our honeymoon.

I am so lucky. I know this. And I still worry about how we are going to do this with all the support we do have. It’s terrifying and deeply frustrating to be at this moment in my life and not feel safe to take the leap. So I can only imagine how women with fewer resources must feel in this moment of pre-baby planning. And on the flip side, if I were a woman with an unplanned pregnancy, what would my chances be of wanting to start or continue both a company and the pregnancy? I’ve never met a female founder in the early stages of her company who was also building a family, planned or otherwise. Not one.

So when Ivanka said, “In the developed world, we have challenges” and mentioned child care and paid family leave as solutions, I was surprised and grateful. These are truly important changes we need to make in our society and I’m really am glad she is giving these important issues attention.

However, as she continued, Ivanka also talked about how her new initiative’s third pillar is focused on fighting “laws or norms where women don’t get the same chances” as men. Hearing her remarks, all I could think about was how this same administration, the one her father is running, has done it’s hardest to elect judges and support policy that curtail women’s choices when it comes to reproductive health and abortion, creating a barrier that harms and impedes millions of women’s economic growth worldwide.

If you are not a women’s policy buff, you might not know that the United States has not only been curtailing abortion rights at home, we’ve been exporting this dangerous policy abroad by way of what is called The Mexico City Policy, also better known as “the global gag rule.” Basically, if an organization is even counseling women on the existence of abortion, they will no longer be eligible for any U.S. funding. This applies to groups providing HIV care and other reproductive health services. The consequences of this gag rule to women and their families are very real, medically and economically.

This policy has been turned on and off, depending on the administration in charge with all too predictable consequences. Bush reinstated it, Obama removed it. Guess who reinstated it again? Trump. It was one of his very first acts in office.

My government is directly contributing to the reduction of health care services women receive because we don’t want health care providers to even talk about abortion. While I appreciate Ivanka’s championing of childcare and the new program to extend more debt financing options, it is an incomplete picture of what is needed to make sure the unequal barriers that exist for women are completely eliminated. And since they weren’t taking questions from the audience, I did what anyone with a Twitter account would do:

Last time I checked there were almost 56,000 impressions on my tweet. I hope she was one of them.

Toward the end of Ivanka’s talk, MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga joined her onstage to announce a new corporate partnership to bridge the credit gap that prevents women from getting loans to secure or grow their businesses. Ivanka spoke about how many countries keep women down both through policy and cultural norms and about what is right or wrong for women to do in society, to which Ajay said, “That’s stuff that needs to go out with the last century.”

I couldn’t agree more, but I don’t think either of them realize that while they are doing some much needed good in the world they are also both contributing to a pinkwashed representation of an administration that is also creating major barriers for girls and women all over the world.

We need to repeal the global gag rule. Stop attacking reproductive rights at home. Move our policies into the 21st century. Stop placing restrictions on women’s economic growth by constricting our control of our bodies. Let women flourish so we can all become the fullest versions of ourselves.

I want my government to know I am grateful for the opportunity given to me by having been selected to attend, and for having the confidence in me and in my ability to represent my country at such an important gathering. I could have chosen to write only positive things from GES. But I knew if I didn’t speak up, that really, I’d just be listening to that little voice in my head — the one that says “Shut up and be grateful! Don’t bite the hand that pays for your ticket to Europe to eat lobster on the beach and incalculable mini lemon tarts.”

But then I’d be giving into the same sort of self-serving ethical gymnastics Elaine and Ivanka and Donald are all too well known for — the ones that serve their own interests above the collective good. So maybe I won’t be invited back. Or maybe they will ask me for a list of more women to invite next time. Or maybe Ivanka will wake up and realize her father gives every impression that he hates women and that she should stop working as administrative camouflage, and step up and actually do something brave. Or absolutely nothing will change.

Either way, I hope those investor leads work out. I certainly met a lot of them. So, thank you, GES. What you do, what you represent, is what we need more of in this world to help entrepreneurs grow through connections, investment and promotion.

Also, universal healthcare would help. And affordable higher education. Oh, and reproductive rights too.

-30- Source: https://technical.ly/philly/2019/07/08/morgan-berman-global-entrepreneurship-summit-if-the-trumps-are-serious-about-economic-equity-let-women-flourish/