Go Steelers! Beat them Browns!
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Walked into the living room, and apparently Ravens fans are not as excited about the Steelers game as I am:
Archives for 2014
Falling Up, Part Two
This should surprise no one:
A little more than a month after he lost his job at BuzzFeed for widespread plagiarism, Benny Johnson has landed on his feet at National Review.
Politico’s Mike Allen reported Saturday that Johnson will begin his work as social media director at the conservative outlet next week.
The role and the venue both make sense for Johnson.
As the viral politics editor at BuzzFeed, Johnson was tasked with producing clicky posts on topics such as George H.W. Bush’s sock preferences and John McCain’s “adorable” first mention of Twitter on the Senate floor.
Before joining the viral media giant in late-2012, Johnson worked in conservative media, writing for the likes of The Blaze and Breitbart.
His work at those outlets and at BuzzFeed made Johnson a frequent target of mockery from many of his peers in the online journalism community. The criticism came to a head in July, when a pair of pseudonymous Twitter users known as @blippoblappo and @crushingbort detailed multiple instances of plagiarism in Johnson’s posts on BuzzFeed.
In his initial response to the plagiarism allegations, BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith offered now-infamous praise of Johnson.
“Benny Johnson is one of the web’s deeply original writers, as is clear from his body of work,” Smith told Gawker.
All you can do is laugh.
Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Falling Up
From faithful commentor, Marvel:
Over this-away, things are looking UP (i.e., stuff’s growing and happy). We’re looking at another heat wave (90s) this weekend, so watering & harvesting continue to dominate our outdoor activities. Can you use a metric ton of heirloom tomatoes?????
The cabbage (and cauliflower, broccoli & kale) are doing well under their fabric row covers — we’ll be making soups & stews in coming months, grateful for having had the time, space & energy to plant a Fall garden.
We’ve spread last year’s leaf mulch & planted a couple of cover crops (tyfon & crimson clover) in Area 51 — this was the first year we planted in that reclaimed space and the soil did a good job — we’ll try to keep a good thing going out there.
This is the first time I planted late-season shelling peas — I found a variety that’s supposed to withstand Summer’s heat. So far so good.
The quinoa is riot of color. It’s the same variety as the one we planted last year (“Cherry Vanilla”), but SUCH a flamboyant streak this crop’s got!
Finally, the Scarlet Runner beans [top pic] are still pumping out flowers & pods. This’ll probably be my last year growing this kind — I like regular old pole beans better. Since SRs are perennials, I might let the below-ground contingent over-winter in place & transplant it as an ornamental somewhere next year.
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How are things in your gardens this week?
Sunday Morning Open Thread
Friday night’s sunset at an unspecified shoreline on Tampa Bay:
That seemingly floating city in the distance is St. Petersburg (not the Russia one).
Got football to watch today? We’ve got both baseball AND football viewing on the agenda. Plus the making of potato salad, grilling of sausages and sampling of various ales.
Feel free to talk about whatever.
Alright, Fess Up
Open Thread: Kids These Days, Pr0n Edition
Porn addiction reduces libido (mildly NSFW). I think this is the culprit behind Japan's "herbivorous men". http://t.co/FEbIkd2D9R
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) September 6, 2014
Ah, the internet — is there anything it can’t break?
Needless to say, somebody has a book to sell:
VICE: So the main premise of your book is that you can either watch porn or have sex, but you can’t have both. Is that right?
Gary Wilson: It is of course possible to have both. But for some guys it is difficult to have both. With internet porn some men are having not only erectile dysfunction (ED) but they’re also having other sexual symptoms such as inability to orgasm, delayed ejaculation, declining libido with real partners, loss of attraction to real partners, and also very commonly their sexual taste—at least in porn—have morphed into something which is strange and upsetting for them.Can you watch some porn and still have a healthy sex life? Is there a safe level?
Watching porn will always affect you. How much it will affect you is hard to say. So in other words we have seen guys who are terribly addicted, and it has deeply affected their sex lives. They need a year or more off porn in order to get a real erection with a real partner. So that’s an extreme occurrence. On the other end of the spectrum however you will have some guys with a girlfriend and they will watch porn a couple of times a week. But here’s the deal. You don’t know how much it affects you until you remove the variables. So these guys will just do a challenge and say, “OK I’ll stop watching porn,” and what they find is that they will still get benefits. And the benefits that they’ll get is that real sex is far more exiting. Their wife or girlfriend looks a lot better. They didn’t think that porn was affecting them but once they quit they found out that it was. Essentially porn has a broad spectrum of effects…
One is dubious. But this is a full service blog, so I figured you all would like to know this was, as the FOXbots say, “out there”.
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Saturday Night Non-Football Open Thread
If you have Netflix, you might want to check out a documentary called “Cave of Forgotten Dreams.” It’s about 30,000-year-old cave paintings discovered in France in the 1990s:
Fascinating stuff. Please feel free to discuss whatever.
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