Can we maybe vote on the whole murdering people issue?

Wash ,'Serenity'


Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Laura - Jun 13, 2019 4:07:58 am PDT #8727 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

I can guarantee vw doesn't care about how clean your house is.

No question about that! Sleeping sitting up is probably better for the lungs too. I'm so sorry. It is so much harder to focus on getting well yourself when you have a toddler. She will be super excited to have Stitch to entertain her! The two of them together just melts my heart.

but right now I feel really good and think I can keep it up!!

Wooooot!


msbelle - Jun 13, 2019 6:23:56 am PDT #8728 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Ugh - boss wound up about 2 things this morning. One is something that is my job and the work that they are looking for I CANNOT LOCATE!!!! I think I did it, but cannot find it. Grrrr.

My desk is an actual mess, so I am going through things, filing what I can to get things off it ASAP.


Tom Scola - Jun 13, 2019 6:46:55 am PDT #8729 of 30019
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Steph, it looks like a big paper you edited on medical marijuana has been repudiated.

Back in 2014, researchers compared deaths due to opioid abuse in states with and without legalization of medical marijuana. For the decade prior to 2010, the trend was clear: states that allowed medical marijuana had lower rates of opioid-abuse-driven death.

That set the stage for the new study, which uses the data from the earlier work but expands its scope to include the years up to and including 2017. Instead of a 20% drop, the study finds a 20% increase in opioid abuse deaths in states that have legalized medical marijuana.


Steph L. - Jun 13, 2019 6:51:53 am PDT #8730 of 30019
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Steph, it looks like a big paper you edited on medical marijuana has been repudiated.

That's fascinating! I'll have to read the new study later. I just wonder if some of the increase in opioid overdose deaths is due to the spike in heroin and fentanyl (versus deaths from legally prescribed opioid painkillers).


Laura - Jun 13, 2019 11:17:06 am PDT #8731 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

Well dang, we aren't going to have Sarah Sanders to kick around anymore. Who wants the job of press secretary?


Sheryl - Jun 13, 2019 12:43:55 pm PDT #8732 of 30019
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Don't mind Bubble Guppies or Paw Patrol that much. Mr. S watches too much media, I know.


sj - Jun 13, 2019 12:54:03 pm PDT #8733 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

ltc watches too much media too, especially when I'm sick.

We had a fun playdate with vw and Stitch, and then I took a nap on the couch while ltc consumed too much media. TCG came home long enough to make me another cuppa and play with ltc for a few minutes before heading out to a conference. So we're having dinner while consuming more media (Shrek 2).


askye - Jun 13, 2019 1:51:55 pm PDT #8734 of 30019
Thrive to spite them

I don't know if they are too young for Octonauts or Backyardigans but both are cool cartoons. I don't know if either are available on streaming. But Backyardigans has all kinds of great music and I never minded watching a few Octonauts episodes in a row.


Topic!Cindy - Jun 13, 2019 1:53:23 pm PDT #8735 of 30019
What is even happening?

Well dang, we aren't going to have Sarah Sanders to kick around anymore. Who wants the job of press secretary?

Not I, said the cat, but I did particularly enjoy this tweet from NYT TV critic James Poniewozik:

I'm not going to believe that Sarah Huckabee Sanders is leaving as White House press secretary until she denies it herself.

[link]


DavidS - Jun 13, 2019 4:41:20 pm PDT #8736 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I don't know if they are too young for Octonauts or Backyardigans but both are cool cartoons. I don't know if either are available on streaming. But Backyardigans has all kinds of great music and I never minded watching a few Octonauts episodes in a row.

Awww, my friend Ellen is close friends with the woman who created Backyardigans (a WOC, incidentally) and they are both close friend with Evan Lurie who did the music.

Evan Lurie is John Lurie's brother. (You might know John from his band the Lounge Lizards, or as an actor in Jim Jarmusch's "Down By Law" or "Stranger Than Paradise.")