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This law failed by seven votes, when seven Republicans who had co-sponsored the bill, suddenly walked away from their own proposal after I endorsed it. So… they make a proposal, sign on to the bill, I say, ‘Great! Good idea!’ ….I turn around, they’re gone! What happened?
You can’t walk away from your responsibilities to confront the challenges facing the country because you don’t think it’s good short-term politics. We can’t afford that.
Lady Gaga with Elton John Live At 2010 Grammys HD (via TheHausOfGagaVideos)
I could not have imagined a more perfectly eccentric pairing. They should do a dueling pianos tour, or at least cover a few more of each other’s songs. So beautiful!
Apple’s iPad announcement earlier this afternoon prompted a score of WTFing across the internet, prompting many to ask, “Are there any women on Apple’s marketing team?” Answer: Apparently not. (Period.)
In terms of getting new messages, the MySpace Shot is the single most effective photo type for women. We at first thought this was just because, typically, you can kind of see down the girl’s shirt with the camera at that angle—indeed, that seems to be the point of shot in the first place—so we excluded all cleavage-showing shots from the pool and ran the numbers again. No change: it’s still the best shot; better, in fact, than straight-up boob pics (more on those later).
I love OkCupid’s data analysis so much.
When I took this show over there was a lot of animosity between me and Dave and who’s going to get it, and quite frankly a lot of good friendships were permanently damaged and I don’t want to see anybody have to go through that again. You know, this show is like a dynasty-you hold it and then you hand it off to the next person and I don’t want to see all the fighting and all the who’s better and nasty things back and forth in the press so right now, here it is, Conan it’s yours. See you in five years, buddy.
Listen, Jay, Conan and I have children—all you have to take care of is cars. I mean, we have lives to lead here. You’ve got $800 million, for God’s sakes—leave our shows alone.
FREE Wi-Fi!! Improved tray tables and power outlets!! YAY!
Woods should become a Christian, Hume argues, not because Jesus is Lord or Christianity is the one true faith or because Christianity is the way, the truth, and the light. No, Woods should become a Christian because Christianity offers the best deal for adulterous husbands—you know, all that forgiveness and redemption and stuff that you can’t get anywhere else. A Christian man can cheat on his wife with scores of tight-faced tramps and all he has to do is make a full confession and—presto!—he’s forgiven! It’s all good! … The incentive to become or remain a Christian, according to Hume, is this: you can pretty much do whatever the hell you want—lie, cheat, steal, fuck around—and set a great example for the world by making a dog-and-pony show of your remorse. - Dan Savage
Lady Gaga will be the new spokesperson for Polaroid. It’s a natural fit as, just like a Polaroid, it takes a few minutes to figure out what you’re looking at.
What happens when you fall in love? Helen Fisher says it begins when someone takes on special meaning. “The world has a new center,” she says, “then you focus on him or her. Your beloved’s car is different from every other car in the parking lot, for example. People can list what they don’t like about their sweetheart, but they sweep these things aside and focus on what they adore. Intense energy, elation, mood swings, emotional dependence, separation anxiety, possessiveness, a pounding heart and craving are all central to this madness. But most important is obsessive thinking.” As Fisher says, “Someone is camping in your head.
- Lust, Romance & Attachment | The New York Academy of Sciences Oh btw I went to this the other night (tuesday) at the NY Academy of Sciences - my friend Lauren works there and invited me. It was super interesting! Fisher’s lecture was divided into two parts - background on her MRI mapping of the brains of those in love, and research findings from her data as head of research at Chemistry.com. Both parts were awesome and could have made their own lectures. There was a lot of good fodder here, and gave me some really interesting new ways of thinking about love. The two parts that we don’t think about enough: timing and choice. And, actually, TIMING. There is a decent talk about choice, but I am finding the function of Timing in love to be a really interesting, vastly under-discussed area. (via rickwebb) Pssh, everything I need to know about love I learned from song lyrics. “Love stinks.” ;)
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