No matter where you stand politically, this fact is not subject to debate: when people have access to health care and medical services, they live longer, better and more productive lives. When it isn’t available or the cost is prohibitive, mortality rates are higher; people don’t live as long; and the quality of those lives, … Continue reading »
…the film star expressing said discomfort, however, is William H. Macy. Love his work, but some might agree that for those of us on the popcorn-gobbling end of the screen, the lack of enthusiasm over witnessing Mr. Macy get his full-frontal freak on is mutual. According to the Chicago Sun-Times: ‘A horror.” That’s how TV … Continue reading »
A flight attendant career is glamorous! Or so I thought! I admit, I signed up for the glamour eighteen years ago, but I quickly learned that most of the glamor was gone from this industry. I was on my second trip as a new hire flight attendant, my uniform was crisp, my hair was pulled back in … Continue reading »
everlasting (dj jon bates) mixed 17 sept 2012
When the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) – the definitive guide to diagnostic criteria used by U.S. mental health professionals – is updated next May (for the first time in 13 years) one of the new conditions in consideration to be among its pages is hypersexual disorder (HD). Known informally, if not entirely accurately, as “sex addiction,” HD’s inclusion in the … Continue reading »
The Vatican has published a gorgeous interactive virtual Sistine Chapel, allowing online visitors to enjoy a truly remarkable experience: zoom in on the ornate detail of just about any corner of the room, or pan around to take in the immensity of the space. This is a terrific example of how new media can expand … Continue reading »
![Newt and Callista at Auschwitz: Smiles, Everyone! [VF.com]](http://momfy.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/new-gingrich.jpg?w=160&h=120&crop=1 "Newt and Callista at Auschwitz: Smiles, Everyone! [VF.com]")
The Atlantic unearthed a picture of Newt Gingrich and his third wife, Callista, posing arm in arm in front of Auschwitz. “Newt is wearing his default smirk,” the magazine observes, and says “there is something distinctly off about these tourist-style shots in front of the Nazi death-camp.” It’s not actually that strange: exhaustive research reveals that the … Continue reading »
This is a solution I came up with for WordPress bloggers who are looking to improve their page rank in Google search results, integrate their Google Plus profiles with their WordPress blogs and improve visitor traffic from their blog to their Google+ posts and from Google+ back to their their WordPress blogs. This solution does … Continue reading »
Punishment Just Teaches Kids To Be Better Liars Screaming at your toddler for finger-painting your computer won’t deter future acts of deviant self-expression, but it will probably help her tell a more convincing lie in ten years about the missing vodka in your liquor cabinet. In a study most likely funded by crafty, far-sighted children hoping to … Continue reading »
Pop-music’s strangest conspiracy theories I’m not sure if Eminem has yet managed to escape the grasp of the Illuminati—the secret society of string pullers whose ranks he joined years ago in exchange for wealth, fame, and power—but I know he’s been trying very hard. Numerous people online tell me so. There is, for starters, a … Continue reading »
