random question: did anyone watch the whole season of Nashville? I have 8 eps sitting on my dvr waiting to be either watched or deleted, and I can't bring myself to do either.

I see Kristen Stewart being lauded as an icon of feminism because she doesn't smile on the red carpet.

She does get that those of us who pay $10 for a matinee don't have to smile at anyone on our ways to our seats, right? If she's a red carpet event, she's at work and her work involves less sullenness than mine.

I think she gets a lot of shit that shouldn't come with the game--omnipresent paparazzi, inane questions about her underwear when her co-stars get asked about the moviie (go ScarJo for calling them out to their face--Avengers isn't actually saving the word--did you only have so many non-trite questions to go around, and ran out before her???), but acting pleasant while you're selling a package you opted to represent is not a hardship that's going to get any sympathy from me.

Yes, I have issues with dour guys in junkets too, and in specific if they're being pissy about the property they;re hawking.

When a yoghurt says "probiotic" is there an RDA of good bugs and I'll get it from their single serving? Hell, is probiotic a lifestyle? I;d always thought of it as getting the engine back in gear.

I'm gonna presume fireworks for the noises outside.

Shrift, are you in Lakeview? Are you crowdsurfing? [link]

LeN, I clipped that article to Evernote and it asked me if I wanted to put it into the Medical Reference folder, and I know that's because of all the "sucks to be black and/or female" articles I have in there...

So, did you put it in that folder?

When a yoghurt says "probiotic" is there an RDA of good bugs and I'll get it from their single serving?

No, and not guaranteed. That we need good bugs in our guts is certain; how we can get them there and how we know if we need more of them is less so. There's no solid evidence yet of which good bugs we need, or whether different people need different ones, or what they all do in there, and it's possible that most of the bugs in yoghurt don't survive your stomach anyway. Me, I've never found that eating yoghurt makes me feel any better.

Teachers, talk to me about Common Core. What's going on there?

Way cool news!

Ancient Egyptian statue appears to move on its own at Manchester Museum

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It's in a locked case, has been in the same case for decades, and now it's turning in a half circle over a period of hours. they have video of it moving.

That is freaky, Connie. I had to share with CJ cause...freaky.

I saw the statute thing -- creepy.

In Boise today. Man. I'm TIRED. As are my kids -- we had to pull out the oxygen for Grace because she was satting so far below normal. Poor kid.

Hubby figures if they just set up a table with a beer, some chicken, and a good burger that all will be well. The German story he found on his international news channel says they even put felt on the base of the statue to hold it still, and that's not helping.