Hulu is doing gender-flipped miniseries based on “High Fidelity,” the excellent Nick Hornby novel and John Cusack movie.
If I can get used to a woman Doctor Who, I can give this miniseries a try.
“It’s a strange existence, being an autistic adult in a profession overflowing with autism mommy-ism and misinformation.” theaspergian.com/2020/01/3…
We’ve started rewatching “I Claudius.”
“I Claudius” is the story of a great empire that decays as its chief executive seizes dictatorial power while the Senate flatters him and otherwise stands idly by.
It’s nice to escape from the news into a TV fantasy now and then.
Oracle founder Larry Ellison is hosting a fundraiser for Donald Trump www.vox.com/recode/20…
Michael Bloomberg says 2015 stop and frisk comments were ‘five years ago’ and are ‘not the way that I think’ www.cnn.com/2020/02/1…
I saw these geese at Lake Murray. Ready to rumble!
Whenever cruise ships are in the news it’s never good.
I am prepared to call the 2020 presidential election: it’s going to be Amy Klobuchar.
The Democrats will be split between Sanders and Bloomberg going into the convention. Supporters of each will loathe and despise the other.
On the 60 gazillionth ballot, some desperate person will suggest Amy Klobuchar and everyone will look at each other and say actually, yes, I kind of like her.
And she will easily trounce Trump, who will prove to be too chickenshit to stage a coup d’état. Trump’s supporters will crawl back to their basements and conspiracy theories. And a new golden age for America will dawn.
Fresh Air: Michael Pollan Explains Caffeine Addiction & Withdrawal
As part of the research for a new audiobook about caffeine, author Michael “Omnivore’s Dilemma” Pollan gave up caffeine cold turkey for three months. Now that’s sacrificing for the craft!
‘Omnivore’s Dilemma’ author Michael Pollan talks about his new audiobook, ‘Caffeine: How Coffee and Tea Created the Modern World.’ He describes caffeine as the world’s most widely-used psychoactive drug. “Here’s a drug we use every day. … We never think about it as a drug or an addiction, but that’s exactly what it is,” Pollan says. “I thought, why not explore that relationship?”
Affluent parents are giving their children growth hormones, to keep the kids from growing up short.
Seems like a bad idea. There’s nothing medically wrong with the kids, and studies have shown that short people’s lives are no less satisfying and happy than anybody else.
Being short just isn’t a disability to be corrected. And we don’t know what the long-term effects of the treatments might be.
I’m 5'9" tall – precisely average.