Good News!
I have some good news for all of you, and it’s not that today is Friday (which it is, and which is technically good news). No, the good news I have to share this lovely day is so much better than the mere fact that the weekend is upon us.
New French Law Requires Supermarkets to Donate Unsold Food to Charities
After a unanimous vote by the French senate, supermarkets in France are now legally banned from tossing unsold food; instead, owners are required to donate all un-purchased munchies to a charity or food bank.
Misty Copeland Is American Ballet Theater's First Black Principal Dancer
Misty Copeland has been promoted to principal dancer by the American Ballet Theater, becoming the company’s first black female principal in its 75-year history. Hell yes.
L7 Just Played Their First Show in 18 Years
This is excellent: L7’s original lineup reunited for the first time in 18 years, playing a sold-out show at the Echo in L.A. According to Pitchfork, the bulk of the setlist was from 1992’s Bricks Are Heavy, the best grunge album ever written. Finally, this wave of ‘90s nostalgia bring us something awesome.
Tina Fey Sold Not One, but TWO Sitcoms This Week
Fans pining for the comedy stylings of Tina Fey were delighted this week to hear that Fey would be returning (probably not as an actor) to TV with a Cheers-like comedy set on Fire Island. That, as it turns out, is just Part One of the good news. Part Deux is that there’s a second Tina Fey project coming down the…
Unclench, Folks: Today Didn't Suck. Actually, Today Was Pretty Great.
When you're a pro-lady consumer of news who's attempting to process the world's crappiness on a daily basis, it's easy to find yourself oscillate between feeling like an invertebrate puddle of exhaustion and despair. But today? Not only did today's news not suck, it epically didn't suck. So take a deep breath and…
Holy Crap, Is Feminism Actually Working and Changing the World?!
Isn't it bizarre that not particularly long ago a whole bunch of women just assumed they'd grow up to be housewives? Wives! Just in a house! Wifing around! ALL THE TIME. This isn't news, I know, it's just what women of a certain class did. For years and years and years and years and years and years, the expectation…
'Show Your Boss Your Whore Pills' Bill Killed by Arizona Senate
Arizona's dumb bill that would have given employers the right to peek into their female employees' medical records to make sure a strumpet wasn't using contraception in a way contrary to her boss's moral beliefs is dead after being voted down in the state Senate. But now's not the time for opponents of the bill to…
Woman Trapped In Lawn Chair Saved By Paper Boy
A freak accident that left a 75-year-old woman trapped outside in a canvas chair overnight has a happy ending thanks to the newspaper carrier). Last month Evelyn Rogers of Liberty Hill, Texas pulled a piece of plastic on the chair she was sitting in on her patio and it collapsed, trapping her in the aluminum frame.…
Lost Penguin Returns Home
Remember Happy Feet, the Emperor penguin who was found sick and lost after eating sand on a New Zealand beach? Good news: after surgery and rehabilitation, he's been released back into the wild and is headed home to Antarctica. Scientists don't know much about releasing Emperor penguins into the wild, but they do …
Connecticut Gives Service Workers Paid Sick Leave
"Governor Malloy said, "This is good public policy and specifically, good public health." He added: "Why would you want to eat food from a sick restaurant cook? Or have your children taken care of by a sick day care worker? The simple answer is - you wouldn't. And now, you won't have to."
Jezebel Design Updates Will Make Life A Little Easier
This morning Jezebel pushed live a little (but very hard-won) update to our code that most folks probably won't even notice. But for more dedicated readers and those with older web browsers, these changes should help to soothe at least some of the wounds inflicted by the redesign.
Los Angeles Eliminates Its Rape Kit Backlog
Thanks to to activists, private donors, and public grants, the LAPD has tested all 6,132 unexamined rape kits in its storage freezers. So far, new identifications number in "the dozens"; some of the 1,000 matches were already convicted.
Gabrielle Giffords Seen Walking To Airplane For Shuttle Launch
A Houston TV station purports to have footage of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords walking, with help, up the boarding stairs and into a waiting airplane so she can travel to Florida for her husband's launch. You can watch below, but be warned, it's a little difficult to make out anything. Nevertheless!
Lesbian Teens Win Fight To Walk Together In Royalty Court
A Minneapolis school district tried to prevent two female students from walking hand in hand in a pep rally's royalty court — but then they changed their minds. Result: cheers and standing ovations for the pair.
Woman Googles, Solves Own Kidnapping
Nedjra Nance always had doubts about the abusive, drug-addicted woman she knew as her mother, and she was right. It turns out the woman, dressed as a nurse in a hospital, had kidnapped her from her parents as an infant.
Gabrielle Giffords Stands Up, May Leave Hospital Tomorrow
Gabrielle Giffords is expected to be released to a rehab in Texas tomorrow, just 13 days after being shot. She still isn't speaking, but she stood up yesterday and her husband Mark Kelly says she'll be walking in two weeks.
What We Can Learn From Gay Parents In The South
The takeaway from the Times story on the prevalence of gay parenting in the South is not that a gay utopia blossoms south of the Mason-Dixon line. It's how important it is for people to create institutions that reflect them.
Illinois Sensibly Headed Towards Civil Unions
Good news: Civil unions — including for same-sex couples — could be performed in Illinois as early as next summer, having cleared both the state's House and Senate as of yesterday despite fierce Catholic lobbying against it.
Fox News Interviews 7-Year-Old Boy Who Met Jesus
This week Fox News' Gretchen Carlson broke the story that heaven definitely exists. Colton Burpo reports that there are no stinky old people in the hereafter, and Jesus has "sea-blue eyes, and a smile that lit up the heavens."
