I wonder if a big coverup would work in a country/region where you don't have at least a good-sized Roman Catholic minority or the church doesn't have much power/prestige/property in the culture.
Like in Viet Nam. Unless there is disproportionate political influnce (which there well could be) I don't know if 6.62% of the population feeling pressured so keep quiet/see the church as all-powerful is going to allow for abusive priests to be shuffled from parish to parish for a couple of decades without local authorities actually prosecuting anybody (which, of course, is a big part of how they got away with it). Abusers could certainly be gotten out of the country of course.
Philippines, on the other hand, 80%. Yeah, all hell could break loose.
Hey, when did iTunes prices jump $.30??
When they took off the no-copy dealie. Edit: Unless it's happened again? I don't buy much off there.
Record labels now have the option of selling their songs at higher prices. So theoretically, the hits cost more.
Not Hec, and super-late, but I add green olives to Perfect Manhattans and the salt nicely offsets the sweetness of the whiskey and the sweet vermouth. I'm thinking that's the same idea here, especially since Rose's still had sugar instead of HFCS in it at that point. It'd be worth trying with real lime juice, vodka, sugar, and an olive.
Huh. Might have to try that. I tried some new cocktails tonight at dinner. One was pear vodka with St. Germaine and a splash of sour. Little bit sweet but nice. The restaurant was doing garlic month so the second was an Old Ginger Tom gin martini with garlic and ginger. Not bad. Then I had something with Hendrick's gin, lillet and absinthe. Sublime.
I am so confused by this job ad. [link]
Overview
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We are laying the groundwork for what promises to be the global, spectacular phenomenon we call "VOMI: The Virtual Organization Holy Grail," and are looking for The Guardian - an Unconventional, Unstoppable, Transformative, Entrepreneurial, and VISIONARY key person who will carry the Luminous Light of Virtual Organization Management Institute to the Media, Sponsors, Industry and to every single individual in every corner of the globe.
It goes on like that for a while.
I have a Criminal Minds question (spoilers through Episode 5x9):
when the Reaper killed Haley, did people see that as fridging Haley?
It hadn't occurred to me to see it that way, until someone on my friends' list commented on it, but I think that's mostly because
Haley was barely on the show, and never had much of a function other than Hodge's wife.
Which doesn't make it not a
fridging,
but somehow set it outside of that for me.
Hmm. Yeah, she wasn't
a character you were really invested in. (Though I don't know that she wasn't intended/expected to be.)
OK, this is crazy good fun.
[link]
It's a Salon article about Amazon reviews of classic books. PAR TAY
I just bought way too many Lady Gaga songs. But she's got an excellent beat for my walking mix, and since the pool is closed Sunday, I figured I'd do a 6 miler and needed to freshen up the mix so I really crank it. I plan to be painfully sore Monday (this is not a leisurely walk. This is just short of a run. For all the times I laughed at the racewalkers, I am sorry -except for the Olympic ones. Those look goofy-because I'm soaked in sweat by the first mile.)
Perkins, I didn't think of it until someone else mentioned it either, and no, I don't think of it that way. I see her as
collateral damage, and not all female collateral damage is merely fridging.
She was a
casualty of his job, but they haven't really even exploited the manpain
as much as they could have.
