I shop at a local co-op name Bloomingfoods a lot. Occasionally, I see a fellow customer who looks just like “that guy who was nominated for an Oscar for playing Mark Zuckerberg on The Social Network”, AKA Jesse Eisenberg. Considering that I live in a small town in Indiana, not LA or NYC, I assumed… Read more Talking Dried Pineapples with Jesse Eisenberg
It seems there is always a demographic that wants to make a horrible act of murder worse. When the sad little geldings of the manosphere lionize people like Marc Lepine or like Eliot Rogers for going on a murder sprees to punish those those they blamed for their lack of a sex life and only… Read more How to Make a Mass Shooting Even More Horrific
This morning in Virginia a “disgruntled former employee” of WNCT by the name of the Vester Lee Flanagan, a former weekend anchor known as “Bryce Williams” when on-air, shot and murdered to WNCT employees, Alison Parker (24) and cameraman Adam Ward (27). The violent deaths of two young people are horrible enough, but the fact… Read more Two Reporters Murdered On Live Television
Happy news! The Eurasian beaver, which was hunted into extinction in England by the 12th century and was wiped out in Scotland by the 1500s, is back! Some reintroduced wild beavers in Devon, England have produced the first kits in 400 years or so. Happy!! “Tom Buckley, a retired scientist and wildlife enthusiast from Ottery… Read more Busy as a Beaver
This post from Sociological Images cannot be reposted enough, especially this part: “Healthy lifestyle habits are associated with a significant decrease in mortality regardless of baseline body mass index.” Evidence: Fat People Can Be as Healthy as Thin People Lisa Wade, PhD on December 31, 2012 If you live in the U.S. you are… Read more Reblogging — Fat People Can Be as Healthy as Thin People
A mumpsimus is person who clings to something even after it has been shown to be wrong, or the action of clinging to incorrect belief. For example, when someone insists on saying irregardless regardless of the fact it is NOT a word, then that person is a mumpsimus and his act of using the word… Read more Mumpsimus
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1 July 1818 – 13 August 1865) was a Hungarian-born German physician who noticed that the doctors in the Vienna General Hospital‘s First Obstetrical Clinic had three times the morality rate for recently delivered mothers compared to the women who gave birth with a midwife in attendance. The women under the doctors’… Read more Semmelweis and Sinning Against the Paradigm
Like most people, I have accepted the ‘given’ definition of Luddite as someone who fears technology. I even, being the word-geek that I am, knew the term originated from machine-breakers in the early ninetieth century. The reasons the Luddites broke new automated looms was because the feared and hated new devilish technology, right? Wrong. The… Read more I’ve been using the word “Luddite” wrong
I am working on my next book, which is requiring me to take a deeper look into Regency Era Britain. As a long-standing Austenite and reader of modern day Regency romances (many of which are VERY well researched in terms of mores, manners, and dress) I have had the tendency to look at 1811-1820 Britain… Read more The Regency Era
There’s been another random murder-spree shooter in America again. A monster named John Russel Houser entered a theater in Lafayette, Louisiana and murdered a 21 year old woman named Mayci Breaux and a 33 year old woman named Jillian Johnson, and wounded several others, before killing himself. He initially tried to escape, but when the… Read more A Shooting in a Lafayette Theater