James Tiberius in his Valentine’s Day outfit, because he’s getting jealous of all the attention you give Sansa.
One of your fellow Toasties is fundraising for the Eastern Massachusetts Abortion Fund, if you want to help out!
Michael Twitty is so freaking interesting (do not read the comments):
So how did this self-trained historical cook and unaffiliated scholar — a man who majored in Afro-American studies and anthropology at Howard University but did not have the money to complete the coursework for his degree; who describes himself as outside the mainstream and “four time blessed” (“large of body, gay, African American and Jewish”); who for years supported himself (meagerly) as a Hebrew teacher; who underwrites the cost of his professional travel by crowdsourcing — come to be recognized as an important figure in the world of culinary scholarship?
The easy answer is Paula Deen.
support the troops or whatever:
Hickman conducted a statistical study on a select sample of the thousands of military members who said they were experiencing health effects from their exposure to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. With the help of Seton Hall Law Center, he found that five of the six bases that saw the worst health cases, such as cancers and untreatable bronchial illnesses, were located on or near documented chemical warfare sites, where chemical weapons were left over from Saddam Hussein’s rule. Those locations include Mosul, Taji, Tikrit, Tallil and Balad, where Beau spent some time serving. And of the 112 service members and contractors Hickman found who served at both Camp Victory and Joint Base Balad like Beau, 31 suffered from different forms of cancers and brain tumors.
he is OBVIOUSLY a witch, someone needs to throw him in the Potomac to see if he floats:
Mosteller’s official title is director of Oval Office operations, although a more apt name might be anticipator in chief. When Obama is in Washington, every move the president makes, every person he meets and every meeting he attends has been carefully orchestrated by Mosteller.
He knows where Obama likes his water glass placed on the table at meetings and whom he’d want to sit beside. He knows how he prefers the height of a lectern. He researches a head of state’s favorite drink so that the president can offer it. He readies Obama’s remarks and sets them, open to the first page, wherever the president will be speaking. He tells Obama when a sock is bunched at his ankle or his shirt is wrinkled, before an interview.
pets that are stuck but pretending everything is fine
A controversial Danish law allowing police to confiscate valuables from asylum seekers has netted the authorities no money at all in its first 11 days, according to a police spokesperson.
The new rules, which came into effect on February 5, allow cash or items that do not have “sentimental value” to be seized if they are worth more than 10,000 kroner (€1,340). But the police spokesperson told AFP that no asylum seekers carrying that amount of money have been stopped and searched so far.
Adult braces have been around forever, basically (my parents couldn’t afford orthodontics for us, which worked out okay for me, but my brother looks like a barn door swinging open, <3 you bro, no offense):
In 1987, two years before the AAO started keeping statistics on age and gender of patients, the New York Timesran a story under the headline “ORTHODONTICS FOR ADULTS: A HELP AT ANY AGE” which included the assertion that “adults with braces, a rarity 10 years ago, are almost commonplace nowadays.”
In 2012, 25 years later, the Times ran a story under the headline “Orthodontists Market to Adults Seeking Prettier Smiles” which leaned on the AAO statistics and looked into a rise in advertisements aimed directly at adults. In the story, reporter Andrew Adam Newman talks to the then-head of the AAO Michael B. Rogers, who claimed that when he began his practice in the 1970s, adults only accounted for about five percent of his patients. He said that now, decades later, they made up a full quarter. But remember that, according to the AAO’s own numbers, by 1989 adults were already 25 percent of orthodontia patients.
You know how everyone has a Twitter crush that they think night and day about impressing? Well, mine is @BisHilarious, and she has a DYNAMITE Hamilton podcast, and you should check it out, and tell her I sent you, because then she might like me more, and some day if I’m in LA we could hang out. I’m overthinking this.
