We get it, you think she sucks. Doesn't explain how you think she mind-controlled the Grammy producers into INVITING her to sing the tribute, obviously all solely for her own personal gain.
So lucky that she only came in seventh and then got a recording deal anyway because of her (gasp) talent? Do YOU have an Oscar at your house?
I'm glad to hear that. I agree, especially after reading the Outside magazine article someone posted above, that these animals should not be performing at Sea World. Sea pens seem like the way to go.
I still don't trust PETA.
Right?! Man should fire his agent for letting that hair happen to him. The movie should be called "Billy Ray Cyrus on a Ledge."
The latter. They also have an animal shelter associated with their headquarters in Virginia that euthanizes large numbers of cats and dogs. They argue all the animals euthanized are sick or "unadoptable" and that it's more cruel to keep them alive, but there have been plenty of questions from other advocates about what standard they are using to determine that, particularly given that their overarching philosophy treats pet ownership as, at best, a necessary evil.
Some of the orcas who live at Sea World probably could not survive in the wild. (See the story of the "Katrina dolphins," who were washed out to sea after the hurricane when their aquarium in Mississippi was destroyed, and were not able to fend for themselves.) Would PETA's recommendation be to euthanize them, too? What about the organizations that rescue beached or otherwise injured marine mammals and rehabilitate them for eventual rerelease into the wild? Would PETA say that even that kind of compassion is just "interference" with another species, and that we should leave them to die?
Oh. I thought Emirates Stadium only had covered stands, not the field. Have never been there, but that's how the pictures make it look ...
ETA: Never mind, I now see the game took place BEFORE it started to snow.
Wait, it was snowing in London 24 hours ago, and yet the pitch is green and clear? Having once been trapped for days amid a London "blizzard" (~3 inches of snow), I am startled by the show of efficiency here. Does Arsenal have a magic snow-melting machine?
I'm going to postulate a correlation between her attitude on this subject and the fact that her first professional mentor was Larry Summers.
Definitely agree that Facebook should have some women representatives on its board. But are COOs usually on the boards of the companies they work for? My understanding is no, because it's their job to report to the board on the day-to-day operation of the company. She's served on a number of other boards, including Disney and Starbucks among others.
The first wave of Muslim immigrants to northern Europe (the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, etc) came as guest workers in the 1960s. The deal was supposed to be, come here, do the work we don't want to do anymore, OK, now the work is done, please depart via the nearest available exit. What? You're doing better here now and don't want to go home? Well, THIS was not in the plan. (Does this sound familiar to you? It should -- it's the story of many Mexican Americans, minus the burqas.)
More recently, a lot of asylum seekers have ended up in the Netherlands. My guess is they did not expect the country that offered them a safe place to live would in turn expect said offer to be contingent on wardrobe.
As Americans we've been indoctrinated to think that immigrants make their choices of where to live all based on FREEDOM! and LIBERTY! and JUSTICE! Worthy concepts indeed, but honestly before most people are able to afford to think about that stuff they've gotta think a little more prosaically. Like "My brother moved to such-and-such a place and got a pretty good job, and he says he's got one lined up for me." Or "I like being able to feed and clothe my kids, wonder where I can make that happen." Or "I'd like to live somewhere where the neighborhood doesn't get blown up a couple of times a year."
Um, wow. Given the massive conflict of interest inherent here, the commish needed to put his department on LOCKDOWN about discussing this case. There should not have been any unnamed "law-enforcement sources" dropping a dime to the NYP about alleged text messages or anything else; I don't care how it usually happens. The texts may be real and be proof that she isn't telling the truth -- or somebody may be trying to intimidate her into dropping the charges.
See, in my college days (the mid-1990s, gaaah) it WAS apparently easy (enough) to get a tank of nitrous and a bunch of balloons and have at it. I only tried it once or twice, and don't remember it doing much of anything for me. But I do have a vivid memory of seeing a guy go into a nitrous-induced seizure. I was with some very Jersey friends-of-a-friend and we were, just to get all the cliches out of the way at once, in the parking lot of the Vet before a Rolling Stones concert. Somebody had a nitrous tank, and everyone was chilling, and the next thing I knew this dude had flipped over backward and was twitching on the ground. His friends picked him up, he shook it off, said "I'm cool, dude" -- and off they went into the concert. And yes, that was right around the time I realized I was trapped in a real-life weekend-long version of "Clerks."
This makes me think of the time he interviewed Jon Hamm for Interview magazine, in which they discussed their longtime friendship as well as burning questions such as "Who's your favorite cartoon potato-chip mascot?" There were LOLs aplenty. [www.interviewmagazine.com]
A former classmate dabbles in party promoting (on the side of his Wall Street analyst job, naturally) and I notice that like the email quoted here, he, too, always refers to his parties as "events." As in "this event will be awesome!" "The event will have only top-shelf liquors!" "You do not want to miss this event!" and so on. Is this because they secretly know the "events" are not going to be fun enough to actually be called "parties"?
Best lobbying for a part EVER. She would make a great Johanna Mason. Make this happen, moviemakers!!
The greasy, reptilian Brandon Davis is heir to some oil fortune or some such, and had his 15 minutes in the Paris Hilton Era (I don't remember if he dated her or was just in her entourage or whatever). I don't think anyone's been missing him since then. In fact I'm rather bummed I even remembered who he was. I'm sure I could have used that brain space for something better.
I thought Russell and Katy were staying friends or whatever people claim to be doing when they divorce "amicably." Shouldn't that mean they can tolerate appearing at the same awards show? There will be thousands of other people there.
Sheesh! Just read to me like she was kidding around a bit.
The evidence suggests that talent isn't enough, actually. Read Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers" -- he posits that people who become expert at any skill have put in an average of 10,000 hours of work to get there. The archetypal example of our era of an athlete demonstrating how necessary this is is Michael Jordan, who as a sophomore in HS wasn't even good enough for his school's varsity team. What happened between that point and winning an NCAA title just a few years later? A LOT of hours spent in the gym. The Williams sisters' untrained physical ability alone would not have gotten them to Grand Slam championships without the unrelenting work their dad made them do on the court. Which, of course, as others have noted, is probably exactly why she doesn't like tennis now -- the hours of drudgery she was put through as a kid.
Ditto. None of the rest of these are "crushing" in any way.
